Basecamp (software)

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Basecamp

A message view, seen within Basecamp
Developed by	37signals
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Project management
Website	www.basecamphq.com

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals. The Ruby on Rails framework was extracted from the Basecamp project.^[1]

1 Features
2 Basecamp API
3 Praise and criticism
4 Notes and references
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Features

Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. It also offers integration with its own Campfire product.

[edit] Basecamp API

A Basecamp API, created by 37signals, allows developers to integrate Basecamp into their applications. It allows applications to access and modify Basecamp data, and is implemented as Vanilla XML over HTTP. It also accepts requests in the YAML format but responses are given in XML.

[edit] Praise and criticism

Since Basecamp was created according to 37signals' Getting Real philosophy, it has been criticized for being too simple. 37signals' CEO, Jason Fried, has also been criticized by some for keeping the product simple and refusing to immediately implement all requests.^{[citation needed]}

Basecamp attracted an attack site, www.whybasecampsux.org, written by a frustrated user and mounted July 16, 2006^[2] out of Bellevue, Washington.^[3] The attack site criticizes Jason Fried for continually refusing feature requests. It criticizes the Basecamp development team for a number of reasons including not working to add visual representations of chartable information, not incorporating project roadmaps and not lifting the 10MB file attachment limit for uploaded files hosted on an external FTP server, an option that Basecamp no longer offers for new accounts.

Basecamp has also claimed much praise, including positive reviews in the New York Times.