A little over a month ago we (almost) introduced 37signals Accounts — our new single sign-on (and more) system. Development continues, but we’re closing in on the start of the transition. More on this in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, we wanted to show you one of the cool things that comes with every 37signals Account: The Launchpad.
The 37signals Launchpad will list all the accounts you have on Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire. You’ll see the Launchpad if you sign in at 37signals.com and you use multiple 37signals products (Basecamp and Highrise, for example) or have multiple accounts on a single product (two or more Backpack accounts, for example).
In time we’ll be adding more functionality to the Launchpad, but here’s a video demonstrating the basics you can expect when we launch:
We hope you enjoyed the preview. Stay tuned for more information regarding the launch of 37signals Accounts.
Lubo
on 29 Sep 09Holy cool!
Bob Martens
on 29 Sep 09Fantastic!
Derek Organ
on 29 Sep 09Are you going to open this up in an api so users can login to other apps as well?
John Holdun
on 29 Sep 09Ooh. That’s pretty.
Dave Giunta
on 29 Sep 09Wow… that’s pretty slick! Nice work.
amonle
on 29 Sep 09Yes, yes – but when can we expect it?
Jeff Mackey
on 29 Sep 09Very pretty and clean.
I second Derek’s question: API so that I can have a link to my Freshbooks account, or Pulse account? I think I would have my new default web page for Safari…
Either way I’m really looking forward to this integration.
Jake
on 29 Sep 09Let me be the first to give the obligatory: “Absolutely Brilliant”
Ben Edwards
on 29 Sep 09Looks great but it looks a bit like overkill for the problem being solved – with the dragging and dropping and whatnot.
Petros Amiridis
on 29 Sep 09I think it is very cool and in the right direction. Will you also support SSL connections to all free accounts across all your products? You have already done that in Basecamp and I think you said you were also going to do the same in the rest of the products too.
David, biologeek
on 29 Sep 09I second Ben Edwards, overkill.
Can Duruk
on 29 Sep 09Looks pretty nice. Might be slightly overkill but at the same time, if you have many accounts; being able to organize them for your muscle memory is a nice touch.
One question I have is that this might not look as pretty when you have not as many accounts; I feel like it might look a bit empty.
Jay Owen
on 29 Sep 09Looks great. Looking forward to the launch.
Kevin Holesh
on 29 Sep 09This looks like a great improvement!
This would be an awesome tool paired with Fluid. It could be your gateway into all of your 37s sites.
Mat
on 29 Sep 09Any plans to enable links to integrated third-party tools like ProofHQ?
Lee Graham
on 29 Sep 09That’s sexy!
Matt
on 29 Sep 09Very cool, can’t wait!
It might be neat to have an optional screen that would aggregate certain updates across apps (e.g. Backpack’s Newsroom and Journal, and Highrise’s dashboard feed).
Anonymous Coward
on 29 Sep 09Reeks of TweetDeck.
Francis
on 29 Sep 09Too much empty space??
Emil
on 29 Sep 09With the possibility to add other apps such as Google Mail, Google Docs, CMS backend, Beanstalk, Campaign Monitor etc. this will be a really awesome start page for groups built around web software.
Doing it the Apple way won’t make it a success I think.
Neil
on 29 Sep 09Maybe not as cool but we built something similar a while ago. Feel free to use until this one is up ;) www.launchdeck.co.za
Paul Stamatiou
on 30 Sep 09Nice work! Unfortunately I don’t have that many accounts (Basecamp & Campfire) to take full use of LaunchPad.
Don Schenck
on 30 Sep 09Well done, Jason.
JF
on 30 Sep 09Well done, Jason.
Credit for what you see here goes to Ryan and Sam. Other people pitched in as well, but Ryan and Sam made it happen.
Andrew Wilkinson
on 01 Oct 09Wow! This looks really slick. Can’t wait.
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