What is 37signals up to?

I love 37signals. I think they set a great example of what a company should be and how a company should treat their employees. Getting Real was a fantastic read and I wish more organizations would adopt it. That said, what the hell are they doing in Chicago? I mean besides ample amounts of blogging. Their last product release was Highrise in March 2007. Well over a year ago. I realize that maintaing existing products takes a lot of time and effort but over a year since their last release? Part of the Getting Real philosophy is to stay lean and cut down on the number of features. Thus leading to a quicker release because you don’t get bogged down with the things that are not necessary. So how is it that 37signals has gone 16 months since releasing Highrise? Here is a timeline of 37signals’ releases.

For any other small company I would not even care if it had been a year since their last product release. So what? The difference is 37signals has a seriously kick ass dev team. To give a quick overview:

That is a bona fide team of hackers. So much so that the significance of each individual’s open source contributions far outweigh their work at 37signals.

It’s likely that 37signals is pushing to mature their current offerings. This is supported by their release of Open Bar and an affiliate program as but both are building on their existing product line, not growing it.

That said, I still expect that we will be seeing something from 37signals before the end of the year. And if they follow their advice in Getting Real there will be a teaser with a lot of early buzz so we’ll know about it well before it actually hits.

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July 6, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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