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Congrats!

Hope you’ll head off in the right direction by implementing the relevant features that has already been requested. I’d like a de-cluttered and more customizble dashboard for instance.

One thing that has intrigued me about the growth of basecamp is that a year ago I remember 37signals mentioning that there was 1 million customers. I liked this number as I use it to convince clients that there is major acceptance of basecamp. Now that a year has gone on for me and the million customer number is still around the 37signals literature, is basecamp growing or not? By the way I have taken on highrise and it is a really good product. Keep up the good work.

Dear 37signals,

just want to say: happy birthday! I’m looking forward to the next 4 years. I can’t imagine what I would do without Basecamp & Highrise today … wish you all the best!

Happy Birthday guys. You created a killer product. We love it and are looking forward to many more years with you all. Here’s to another incredible year. Cheers.

Excellent work, guys. We love Basecamp and so do our clients. I dont know what we’d do without it.

You are champions. Thank you for four great years.

Ahhh… those were the days!

We’ve been big fans for 4 years. Get Highrise to “speak” to Basecamp and we’ll be customers for life.

Hey, congratulations :)

2,000,000 Now thats what I call a party. All you need now is Microsoft to buy you out for $100 a customer and you can buy yourself a BIG birthday cake.

Congratulations, 37signals! Basecamp is an awesome product, both then and now.

If Microsoft bought 37signals, they would spend another 4 years but with zero or reverse growth while porting the app to .Net. To say the least.

Congratulation 37signals. We ♥ Basecamp. Cheers to the next 4 years and beyond.

If you ever are invaded by some sort of Microsoft ninja squad or something, please take a second and upload the source to a mirrored server for us…so the magic of Basecamp won’t die.

That said, I doubt that’ll happen. Happy b-day. You guys are the integral part of my business.

congrats! here’s to many many more!

Happy Birthday Basecamp! Congrats everyone, keep moving forward!

Congrats guys. Amazing what small and agile teams can build. Whats the team up to now? 9? 10? 11?

Whoa….Where did the time go?

Congrats. You guys are an inspiration and proof that you don’t need to be huge corporation to make a big impact.

Keep it up.

Happy Birthday guys! way to go.

She turns four today

She? I Always thought Basecamp was a “He” :)

I am a consultant working with lots of startup/small businesses. Basecamp allows me to provide project support without dealing with firewalls, VPNs, etc, etc. My clients love it as it is very intuitive and easy to use, yet secure. The dashboard lets me monitor all of the activity without dealing with multiple sites. I know I am preaching to the choir but Basecamp really contributes to my bottom line. Highrise is the next product to be tried with my clients. Can’t wait to see what that does for us. Celebrate a day or two and then back to creating great products!!

Happy 4th Birthday! It’s a fantastic product and I love using it. Congrats guys!

This without a doubt speaks to the team’s ability to not just dream but to implement and deliver (repeatedly). And I would say to stick with something as well. I don’t always agree with your design decisions, rhetoric or the utility of some of your products. But no one can argue with your initial, continued and without a doubt future successes. None of it is easy, but somehow 37 Signals makes it seem effortless.

Kudos!

Congratulations. Basecamp has helped us tremendously, and some of our clients have adopted it for themselves, and even “forced it” (!) on other vendors and consultants.

37Signals is such an impressive team of people. You’re an inspiration. Thanks for a great product.

Congrats. Of note is the fact that a search for both “Ruby” and “Rails” on that original post return no results. We’ve come a long way indeed ;-)

I remember when. Congrats on four years and a great product!

Congratulations!! Basecamp is one of my best friends!

Happy Birthday ;-)

Thanks, Basecamp! You are God-sent!

With love from the Philippines!

Congrats, 37signals. Here’s to many more years.

I can count on one hand the number of services that, should they get disrupted, can rocket my blood pressure to the stratosphere. You are numero uno. Love your service, and use it everyday…business would be entirely different without it.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t let any more trucks run into any data centers. OR, just build in some serious redundancy. You’ve got 2 million really really good reasons to make sure the service is stable :)

Happy 4th!

Congratulations guys! You make our work lives easy and fun! :-) Keep rocking!

Congrats guys! You’ve been a big inspiration. Keep up the god work.

Best Wishes to Base Camp & all the best!!

Its’ been a wonderful experience working on this system.

Cheers!

Gratz & 10x. Keep up the inspiration!

Happy Birthday! Keep up the good work.

Joyeux Anniversaire Bcamperz!

Thanks for your great work!

Hope to see and use a niiice gloabl vue grafic in 2008 (ex. Gant diagramm) ;-)

Keep helping us in our day 2 day management!

Happy Birthday from our team in Europe!

I cannot imagine life without your tool these days.

Bastards! Send some of those customers my way ;)

No really, congratz – and thanks for helping me manage my projects more efficiently.

Basecamp kicks ass.

Holy Microsoft haters, I use Basecamp to manage many projects that I build in ASP .NET. I’d like to say that I enjoy using BOTH of them very much.

People have got to lose the negativity and try building opinions that didn’t fall off a really old bandwagon. (I use/own a Mac and PC, develop in Java and ASP .NET and have both Linux and Windows running.)

Anyways, happy birthday 37Signals. Keep on developing in whatever environment turns your crank! :)

In a word, genius

Happy Birthday to Basecamp.

That application inspired a lot of folks to write some pretty cool web applications and helped establish a whole cottage industry of well designed niche applications on the web.

Excellent work and I look forward to seeing how the app will continue to evolve.

Congrats!!! Keep up the good work.

Woohoo! Congrats BaseCamp!!

Happy Birthday!

Wish I’d discovered BaseCamp four years ago – it looks as though it was, comparatively, as great a product back then as it is now.

Congratulations on the continuing excellence

Congratulations 37S!

Right from day one Basecamp was a tremendous product.

You’ve been a great inspiration to all of us. I have your methodology to thank for many of my recent career blessings. THANK YOU !

Here’s to many more great years.

Happy Birthday Basecamp!

Still essential to us.

HAPPY , HAPPY! — I TOO “remember when…”

Cheers and congrats :)

We’re so glad Basecamp was born!

“we’re not for sale.”

@Jason

Everything is for sale at the right price :)

Happy Birthday gang!

Your product has made a tremendous difference in our company this year. We’ve learned to collaborate in a whole new way.

And your Getting Real book…and your Defensive Design…and…and…and…well, let’s just say we love you guys :-)

Happy Birthday Basecamp!

37Signals power to weight ratio is what every entrepreneur dreams about.

Few people even remember what “tight code” is. Very admirable.

I love basecamp, its easy to use and effective. Keep up the great work.

Happy birthday guys!

Looking back, is there any single thing you would have done differently over the last 4 years? Specifically in the first 3/6 months or a year?

Happy Birthday, Basecamp! Your product is AWESOME – here’s to many more successful years!

Happy Birthday, Basecamp! We started a free account in early ‘05 and within 1 week upgraded to the MAX account – we’ve been there ever since! Microsoft would call BC: “MS Project 360 Live SQL /IE7 Edition with Silverlight “

Happy Birthday! [Can I bum a month’s subscription?]

Congratulations! Cheers for the next four years and thanks, over 60 people at our company depend on you for a smooth day, every day.

NAO

Happy birthday guys. Just goes to show what can be achieved when you truly look at the users’ needs and come to the table with an open mind and clean slate. My company couldn’t manage now without its Basecamp account.

Here’s to keeping it simple!!!!!

happy Birthday! What did we all do without you – I can’t remember but there must be more you offer we have yet to discover! Keep up the good work!

Fantastic Initiative, great implementation, good vision. Keep the improvements coming. (email to Basecamp, connect highrise to basecamp..) ..hats off to you guys and continued success.

Dear Jason & the Basecamp Team,

Happy birthday! Its a testimonial to how a simple idea, some craziness, lot of passion, and a solid team can do.

Running a web-based start-up myself, I can only imagine all the highs, lows, long nights of toil, turmoil and burning midnight oil. There are days, when we question ourselves – is it all worth it?

But then, a little email from a customer, saying thank you, makes up for all the *(#@$!##

Wish you all the very best!!

Regards, M.

Next to actually buying and reading “Getting things done,” Basecamp has been the biggest boost to my personal productivity. Please, please, please integrate Campfire and Basecamp soon!

Congratulations from Germany. You do a fantastic job. Working with Basecamp – and learning about the way you develop it changed my views about software development. Keep up the good work :-)

Do you have any plans for i18n?

Congratulations for the success with the incredible Basecamp and your other products. Thank you for keeping your product simple, and for writing the Getting Real book – which I had the pleasure of helping on translating. Wish you more years full of achievements! :)

Keep the good work going!!! Growth of RoR as open source platform is in the right hands. With the accolades, the responsibility has also increased!

ALL THE BEST Guys!

Amazing product, amazing team, amazing response time. You guys are awesome and truly do make our {work} lives easier and more efficient. Kudos + Happy Birthday! : )

Happy Birthday! Basecamp is an amazing tool for The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble. It has been integral to the production of twelve shows, with many more on the horizon. Basecamp helped us overcome some of our geographical challenges by providing us with a virtual creative workspace. We love it. Thanks for the great product and keep up the good work.

37 Signals has helped increase our sales dramatically over the past year. For all your ideas, Thanks

Fair winds and followings seas,

Brit Leggett

www.britleggett.name www.flairit.com