Since our company is itself our most important product, we keep tweaking, experimenting, and – hopefully! – improving the organizational software that makes it run. Here’s an example of how w…

The web isn’t just another software platform. It’s the greatest software platform the world has ever seen. And yet even in its obvious glory, we’re still learning how to be grateful for all its con…

Last Thursday, November 9th, Basecamp 3 was in read-only mode for almost five hours starting 7:21am CST and ending 12:11pm CST. That meant…

I’m trying to remember when it was last this crazy at work. Before we spent a month fighting poor planning and terrible execution on our…

A while back we bought a duvet cover from Brooklinen based on, of course, a glowing Wirecutter review. We’ve been happy with it (it’s super…

Take a look behind the scenes at the illustration process for Jason Fried and DHH’s new book, “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”.

Basecamp is hiring a data analyst to help us make better decisions in all areas of the business. This includes everything from running A/B…

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s been going on in our community — conferences, meetups, blog posts, podcasts, open source (the…

Summer is winding down, kids are back in school and the Basecamp team has a fresh batch of updates to share. Here’s a quick look at some…

A number of years ago, Jeff Bezos stopped by our office and spent about 90 minutes with us talking product strategy. Before he left, he…

Since we launched Hill Charts in Basecamp we’ve been fielding many interesting questions. One common question is: how do we catch more…

Now you can add [daily, weekly, monthly, yearly] repeating events to the Basecamp schedule. Here’s how it works:

I’ve written about the class I’d like to teach, but what I’ve been thinking about lately is the class I’d like to attend. Not necessarily…

I think I’ve cracked the obsession amongst much of the Silicon Valley set with compressing work life, sacrificing everything until the big…

Managers used to be the object of envy for their leisurely workday. Maybe it included showing up half an hour later than the norm. Maybe it…

Multiple Accounts in a product is a difficult to design for. It’s not a typical thing, though. Most have just one Google, Apple, Instagram…

They’re mostly terrible, but there’s room for smart choices.

Not because there aren’t people who actually enjoy working in an open office, there are. Quite a few, actually. But they’re in the distinct…

This week I celebrated my fifth year around the sun at Basecamp. For a lot of people that’s probably not a big deal, but for me it kind of…

For years we’ve used Basecamp To-Dos to track all of our design and programming work here at Basecamp. They help us make sure that nothing…

Ping and Message excerpts, image previews, and grouped Campfires make catching up with Basecamp a breeze.

We gave up on Likes and invented a totally new form of tiny communication.

How to spend your time when there’s nothing left to do?