New Basecamp: All ingenious is simple

As one of the Enterprise 2.0 classics said: "If I had more time, I would have created a simpler application". That's how 37Signals (the company behind the project management app Basecamp) is spending its time. Basecamp was launched about eight years ago and since then it remained almost unchanged. Every new feature was added only if it was really necessary. Due to this, Basecamp has retained its simplicity and effectiveness. But it turned out that the Basecamp developers during all these years not only defended the app from the complications, but also have been inventing more perfect and simple structure. And this year they decided to roll it out. It's hard to believe, but the new version of Basecamp is even easier and more effective.



Nested pages interface, cool new calendar, project history in Facebook Timeline style, clean and informative profiles - will surely please the users. But creators say that the main feature of the new version is its higher speed. And it's achieved not only thanks to the platform optimization, but also due to real-time updates: new messages, comments, tasks appear instantly and automatically without page reloading. In the same way wiki pages are updated. And they support collaborative editing in real time. Autosave feature works everywhere.

You can continue using the old version for as long as you want - it's not going anywhere and nothing changes - or you can check out the all new Basecamp. Or you can use both.

By the way, the cost of the lower Basecamp plan was again dropped to $20/month (for 10 active projects). Remember it was (kind of) raised to reduce the number of clients. And still Basecamp provides 1-project free plan.

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