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I honestly don't think 37Signals is changing the world in a big way. You're not inventing the transistor, you're making one of many online to-do lists and chats
by mixmax 18y ago
I honestly don't think 37Signals is changing the world in a big way. You're not inventing the transistor, you're making one of many online to-do lists and chats. I'm not saying the products aren't nice, they are. But they aren't gamechanging in any way.
You're great at marketing though.
- hbien 18y agoI'm pretty sure Rails was game changing.
- omouse 18y agoMaybe in the way it's encouraged other web frameworks to adopt MVC, but that's not a huge deal. MVC has been around for a long time anyhow.
- marcusbooster 18y agoIt did bring Ruby into the mainstream.
- derefr 18y agoIt didn't change the whole world just a little bit (which is what most people mean by "change the world"); it changed one tiny segment of the world—webapp programming—a lot. I think that's even more laudable.
- mixmax 18y agoLisp was gamechanging, C was gamechanging, maybe fortran was gamechanging. Rails is just a framework, albeit a popular one. Let's see if people still use it in five years, or if they have moved onto the new new thing.