Actually I did get your point (although you have made it a bit clearer re: you view on big growth, which I didn't get before), I just don't agree with you re: t

Actually I did get your point (although you have made it a bit clearer re: you view on big growth, which I didn't get before), I just don't agree with you re: these companies in particular. I have to say I've gotten some good information from 37Signals' ideas. I don't follow their advice like an unquestioning lemming, I just take what works for me and leave it at that. I can see how 37Signals' marketing might rub some people the wrong way, there's a fine line between productive self promotion and "boasting", a line that I think many people who are good at the former may cross from time to time (hasn't everyone felt like smashing DHH square in that pretty boy face of his at one time or another? :P). But however you feel about their approach, you can't deny that they have created a pretty good lifestyle supporting business for themselves and this should be commended IMO. I use Backpack almost every day and it serves my particular needs very well. So I also don't agree with you that their products are not that great. I think Backpack is awesome, it does what I need it to do and doesn't get in my way. Their products are simple and straight forward for sure, but that's what I like. I just think it just sounds like you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater a bit here. But each to their own I guess.