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37signals
Company blog · 37signals.com/svnbusinessprogrammingdesign
37signals is the company blog at 37signals.com, writing about business, programming and design. Since 2007, 1,012 different Hacker News readers have linked it 2,087 times, most often “Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
A catalog of ideas — signals — that drive us.
Most-linked posts?
- Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud20 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2011-06-06
- 37Signals' product websites redesigned18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2009-03-22
- Press Release: 37 signals Valuation Tops $100 Billion After Bold VC Investment13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2009-09-24
- Rework: The new business book from 37signals12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2010-01-31
- 37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2011-08-23
- The 37signals Manifesto (original site from 1999)11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2008-07-14
- How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2012-02-17
- Two big announcements11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2013-06-25
- New book from 37signals - Remote9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-10-24
- 37signals becomes Basecamp8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2008-06-12
What Hacker News says?
You may have heard G. Michael Hopf's famous quote: Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times . I think we may be advancing to another step in that cycle with software development. Strong, principled software companies created good times in the late 2000s and 2010s, now good times have created software company leaders who are less principle…
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on “Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge”Submitted Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks as a story · 648 points
HN discussionI liked this book from 37signals (the authors of Getting Real): Remote Office not required: https://37signals.com/remote It is also available as an audio book.
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on “Guide to Remote Work”Submitted Give it five minutes as a story · 620 points
HN discussionThe sad fact is a complete lack of alternative. Personally I hate Apple so much. However, I still buy one or two Apple computers a year. If you're a developer, and you want a stable environment that gives you access to the Terminal (bye, Windows!), has nice typography (bye, Linux!), excellent text editor (TextMate is the best one I found for Ruby) and does not cause stupid problems with printers or wifi (bye, bye, L…
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on “Apple's Mistake”Submitted Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers as a story · 605 points
HN discussionI forgot they had changed their name. They were 37Signals when they were HN's darling. This is the company everyone was in love with: https://37signals.com/manifesto
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on “Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs”Submitted Stop whining and start hiring remote workers as a story · 481 points
HN discussionIt's public knowledge which I picked up in being an early customer and fan of the company. I think much of the story is summarized here: http://37signals.com/founderstories/slicehost
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on “Black Swan Farming”Submitted Some advice from Jeff Bezos as a story · 449 points
HN discussionI know this is going to sound stupid, but I wrote a pretty detailed business plan for this exact same idea. Glad that these guys decide to run with it. An interesting link from the past: http://37signals.com/better/motors/index
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on “Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant”Submitted How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI as a story · 428 points
HN discussionFirst he submitted a bug, and they closed it. Then, he reopened the bug to prove it was a bug, and they closed it again. Then, he submitted a new bug, 1001 years in the future, and they closed it, saying "Good one ;)" Then, he committed a text document to master, and they got all upset about it and got Github staff involved. How about this Ruby devs: actually consider what you're saying. Isn't the point of Ruby to m…
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on “Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub”Submitted Testing like the TSA as a story · 384 points
HN discussionDHH's "How to make money online" (Startup School) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY goes into more detail on this. The version with slides isn't working right now http://37signals.com/svn/posts/981-the-secret-to-making-mone...
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on “Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life”Submitted Two big announcements as a story · 342 points
HN discussionThey had one before already and sold it. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives Edit: sorry, yes, my brain got mixed up. I used to use Sortfolio going through lists of agencies and checking out if they have vacancies open.
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on “We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals”Submitted 37signals becomes Basecamp as a story · 327 points
HN discussionDHH declared the solution in 2007 [1] - apparently nobody needs offline applications! [1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/347-youre-not-on-a-fucking-pl...
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on “IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior ”Submitted No more remote work at Yahoo as a story · 323 points
HN discussionCongratulations GitHub! I'm a bit surprised given their previous stance on VC... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4VtBcmbbSs http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...
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on “Github Raises $100 Million”Submitted Your life's work as a story · 316 points
HN discussionAs a practical matter, how would this work? Wouldn't there have to be a fair amount of upfront and unique legal legwork to put something like this in place? Would the investors be guaranteed a certain percentage of any money Carson takes out of Treehouse? I'm pretty much allergic to the idea of answering to a board, shareholders, and and analysts myself. 37 Signals seems to have an interesting idea about how to comp…
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on “You can do it alone”Submitted Facebook is not worth $33 billion as a story · 315 points
HN discussionCame across 37 signals yesterday ( https://37signals.com/ ) which might be a nice exception to this. I say might because they count from 0, so technically it’s 38 signals ;).
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on “When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (2016)”Submitted 37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009) as a story · 300 points
HN discussionhttps://37signals.com/podcast/this-again-apple/
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on “The Framework Desktop is a beast”Submitted Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried as a story · 296 points
HN discussionEven if you don't remember their names, though, you can recall the fact that there existed Apollo astronauts, men who were brave enough to go on those pioneering missions. DHH put it very eloquently in an essay 4 years ago: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1437-put-a-dent-in-the-univer... - "The key is that your efforts would be missed, your customers would have a sense of loss, if you stopped doing what you’re doing.…
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on “Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars”Submitted Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail" as a story · 291 points
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