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Basecamp Personal — Manage all your small projects for free
Basecamp Personal - a completely free version of Basecamp designed with freelancers, students, families, and personal projects in mind. Use it for hobbies, weddings, small events, side projects, volunteer gigs, etc.
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@rossdcurrie You cannot bring clients onto Personal. That's a Business feature. But worth the upgrade.
You guys being amazing as always @jasonfried ! Can't wait to see what it can do for individuals.
Do you have any plans for a new version of Basecamp for teams?
Keep rocking!
@jasonfried @rodrigoprior We usually don't share updates until they're ready to go. But I can say we're always working to make Basecamp better.
I have been using Basecamp on and off on various projects over the years.
My cofounder and I use other standard collaboration tools for other engagements (outside of our startup). I must say having Basecamp as a place to call home for our startup, where everything is encapsulated away from all the other tools out there, is simply a big part of its value.
What else can I say, here's a simple feature that is worth gold: I setup an Automatic Checkin with Basecamp, and I called it the Daily Standup (coming from an agile development background). This features allows us to get a daily feel of how the rest of the team is progressing.
Basecamp 3 (on which I believe Basecamp is based) is the result of over 10 years of iterations of Basecamp 1 and 2.
As a Rails developer and a fan of Basecamp and many of the team's associated work philosophies, I can say, do your self a favour, simplify your work life and get your self an account ;)
Hey @andy_didorosi! Didn't this actually come out awhile ago? Just asking out of curiousity...I've actually been using itntonplan my wedding for the past couple months! haha. So nailed that one!
Unrelated sidenote: loved the interview on rework, and gotta love Detroit!
@petrev01 We launched this quietly back in September. You're in early!
And thanks!
Why only 3 projects? What if you have horrible ADHD and always have 300+ projects going on at the same time? (Todoist can only handle 81 projects... le sigh!)
@kapilmohangupta Can't give the farm away for free. I believe the paid plan is worth it.
Wow. I used to use the older Basecamp 2 free version for my personal project. Then used Basecamp 3 for my work, but was always missing out on all the amazing features for my personal projects. Really happy to see the new free for personal use edition.
@graeme_fulton Instant chat is instant madness. Let us know what you think about using Basecamp.
@andy_didorosi haha yeah I only just started but so far it is making me feel calmer. I was previously documenting Slack notes into Notion which was also getting crowded with categories. This Basecamp thing seems to just work, it's not overwhelming
@graeme_fulton That's great to hear. Fighting workplace overwhelm is one of our big goals.
@lelper Thank you for that! If you ever need a hand getting the word out, please let us know how we can help. My email is andy@basecamp.com
We use Basecamp at work and love it. I'm pretty sure I can find a use for it at home.
Still one of the most practical and no-frills collaboration tools of its niche.
I love the fact that Basecamp is a great-grandpa who actually looks younger, fresher and stronger than all the other new kids around it..
This is a great move. I love Basecamp, but have trouble justifying the price. I've switched my methodology to Trello, but love this step in the right direction for them.
Congrats @jasonfried @dhh @rjs, looks great & smart repurposing of Basecamp for this audience. I've always struggled finding the balance for personal project management between to-do list tools (urgh) and full-blown team project management tools which tend to be overkill. Going to give this a try 👌
@jasonfried @dhh @rjs @marcusataylor Thanks for the warm words. I feel we've built something very special and if it can be useful to a wider array of people then that's great!
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