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by crunchcaptain 4787 days ago
I thought this might be a survey or request for users to fill-out a report card, not an informational page. We tried Basecamp once. It seemed like an expensive implementation of something we could easily setup ourselves. Not sure why everyone is so 'ga-ga' for 37signals...
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It's much easier to run your own Basecamp than pay $20/mo for it.

All you have to do is:

- maintain your own server

- design the interface

- write the code

- test the code

- fix bugs on a regular basis

And that all easily costs less than $20/mo.

I'm curious about how you'd easily setup this for yourself? As for the expensive, you can get away for a small team with something like 20$/month. 20$ is a fraction of what a software developer earn per hour!

I believe people are so 'ga-ga' (to use your term) because they keep it to the bare minimal (but good luck figuring out what that minimal is!) instead of adding thousands of features. We've been using basecamp exhaustively for a couple years. Is it perfect? No. But it's the best good-enough I've found to get shit done.