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We made the same call as an agency, but back in 2018, moving from Basecamp to Asana. We'd used Basecamp for over a decade at that point. We'd never been huge f
by etchalon 3y ago
We made the same call as an agency, but back in 2018, moving from Basecamp to Asana. We'd used Basecamp for over a decade at that point.
We'd never been huge fans of 37signals or its leadership, but Basecamp was genuinely the only real choice, for years, for a shared workspace between an agency and its clients, so we kept using it.
Eventually, other software just got better at doing the things we needed it to do. Basecamp 3 was not something we, or our clients, liked. We stayed on Basecamp 2 until the end.
Jason and David had always been controversial figures – especially in Chicago, where we and they are based. It felt good not to be validating their egos with our money anymore.
- tptacek 3y agoIn what way do you perceive them to have been controversial here in Chicago?
- etchalon 3y agoMaybe it's more "within the creative community in Chicago". The Chicago digital creative community felt fairly small back in the early 2000s and everyone kinda had stories and opinions on everyone else.
- silexia 3y agoBasecamp is the best tool out there, I used it for fourteen years to build an org from one person to two hundred and seventy employees.
- etchalon 3y agoBasecamp 2 was good, and we also used it to scale our company. However, we found that Asana was a much better match for us.