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(Almost) Introducing 37signals Accounts
- samlittlewood 17y agoI'm curious - how did they wound up with per product user accounts in the first place? I would have imagined that as soon as you had >1 product, there would be a strong desire for single sign on - amongst othr things - to help cross selling, and to avoid multiple invoices.
- jpwagner 17y agoif( userpain > effort) { fixProblem(problem); } else{}
- jlangenauer 17y agoIt's 37signals we're talking about. It'd be in Ruby: user.complain do |problem| 37Signals.fix_problem(problem) unless user.pain < effort end
- antonovka 17y ago37signals specializes in "punt to later" problem solving. It's why I tear my hear out while using other company's basecamp installations and continually run into bizarre failure modes and lore-based work-arounds. Accordingly, I think there's room for a 37signals that works. I'd sign up -- although I'd probably want to host it locally for our 3rd party partners to use -- so perhaps you should consider my opinion on web-hosted services slightly suspect.
- tptacek 17y agoCan you name a couple? I use pretty much the whole suite for our product work, and I haven't run into any of these yet.
- antonovka 17y agoHere's two, off the top of my head: - HTTP requests regularly fail. Page loads, resource loading, uploads -- all of them. Sometimes the page renders without any CSS, sometimes it doesn't load at all, and sometimes my uploads just timeout. - UTF-8 causes ... issues. For instance, I've run into truncation of comments at UTF-8 characters.
- adharmad 17y agoreinventing single sign-on. woot!
- tptacek 17y agoEvery mainstream web application suite ever built appears to have "reinvented" single sign-on.
- henning 17y agoI have to change my username and pass for my $7/month Backpack account just so 37s can bundle their underfeatured software? This sounds like a good excuse to learn a new web framework by building a Backpack clone.
- trafficlight 17y agoTalk about making a mountain out of a molehill.