Today Basecamp turns 6. We launched Basecamp in February 2004 – here’s the original post on SvN that launched it all.
Stats
Birthday stats are always fun. Here are some of our favorites:
- 55,700,000 comments
- 53,000,000 megabytes of uploaded files (that’s 53 terabytes)
- 38,000,000 to-dos
- 24,600,000 messages
- 8,600,000 completed milestones
- 3,600,000 users
- 3,600,000 projects
- And for the technically minded: At peak we’re doing 220 requests a second with an average response time of 160ms.
These numbers are based on open accounts. We’re not counting cancelled accounts or deleted messages/comments/to-dos/files etc.
We’re thrilled with the growth over the last year. Thanks to everyone who uses Basecamp or any one of our products. We’ve got some great stuff in store for you this year so stay tuned!
Jon Moss
on 04 Feb 10A huge congrats and happy birthday!
Look forward to the great new stuff….
Best,
Jon
Victor P
on 04 Feb 10Happy Birthday! – A birthday idea: a screenshots timeline to see how the UI has evolved
Jeff Mackey
on 04 Feb 10Congrats and best wishes. Keep up the awesome work.
I’m not really sure where my business would be without Basecamp!
Jeremy Mansfield
on 04 Feb 10Hard to believe we’ve been using it for almost 5 of those 6 years. Thanks for the great products, and for keeping it simple.
Anibal
on 04 Feb 10Parabens!!!
Nastassja
on 04 Feb 10My warmest congratulations! Carry on!
CFW
on 04 Feb 10Little Misto has grown up.
Congratulations!
mrgray
on 04 Feb 10Congratulations. You are now old enough to start using Agile development ;)
Benjamin Welch
on 04 Feb 10Fucking awesome. I can’t wait until I’m blogging about birthday number 6.
Now I just need to start on my specs and wireframes and do some user research and I’ll be superficially almost there.
Anonymous Coward
on 04 Feb 10@37signals
Interesting to see the same number of users & projects.
For a collaboration project, doesn’t appear much collaboration is happening.
Fred S
on 04 Feb 10OH “We’ve reached the point where software birthdays make you feel old, too.”
Nick Ohrn
on 04 Feb 10Congratulations. I can’t begin to relate how much Basecamp has helped my business grow and kept me sane.
Without gushing too much, I have to say that when I signed up for Basecamp and figured out how to use it for my purposes coincided with the moment my business blew up.
Tony
on 04 Feb 10I was in a meeting at a multinational company today and the topic of sharepoint came up. Some people in the room weren’t familiar with it, so the person who brought it up said, “it’s kind of like basecamp.” I’m still trying to figure out if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
mrgray
on 04 Feb 10Tony, Sharepoint is 100% times better than basecamp for projects documents and colaboration. And 100% more complex with 100 times more administrative overhead. Say goodbye to your Benjamins’ with SharePoint.
Anonymous Coward
on 04 Feb 10With only 14 comments so far, I wonder if this is an indication that 37signals have lost its love within the web community.
TheDarkDiggler
on 04 Feb 10mrgray: how many times is 100% times better?
J Lane
on 04 Feb 10Congratulations 37signals. It’s been great seeing Basecamp and all of your other products get better and better over the years.
Kenny McCarthy
on 04 Feb 10Happy Birthday. It’s been great for the past 4 years and I’m looking forward to more. I love the contant improvements – keep ‘em coming.
But seriously guys, take the night off and go have a drink. You deserve it.
Enigin
on 05 Feb 10Well done guys! Awesome!
Jeff
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations on the anniversary. I think it’s funny that each user has averaged less than 3 milestones.
Floris
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations with 6 years! We’re using basecamp for vbirc.com / mrfloris.com / wetalknation.net project management and more! Couldn’t do it without it.
Nigel Collier
on 05 Feb 10Thank you for helping us to organise ourselves, our clients and for the inspiration to invent our own applications.
Skylab
ADPublishing.org
on 05 Feb 10happy bday basecamp!
Richard Bird
on 05 Feb 10Thank you! It still “works.”
Paul
on 05 Feb 10Great, we love Basecamp and our entire business runs on it… cant wait to see new features on it!
Fabian Geyrhalter
on 05 Feb 10Happy anniversary and thank you for providing us with this amazing tool. Our business would not be the same without you!
C.Cimetta
on 05 Feb 10Too Cool!! A BIG Happy Happy!! May all your dreams come true! We love U BaseCamp! Keep the home fire burning!! We are proud of you,after all your part of our team too!! Congratulations!!!
rilski
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday Guys. Great Services. Keep Running!!!
Josee Charbonneau
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday!!! :o)
Don Merry
on 05 Feb 10Happy B-Day!
Kristen
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday – we love you guys!!!
Chris Bruce
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday! Love it, love it, love it!!
Edward Suhadi
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday guys, great job! On a side note (hehehe…. ) basecamp favicon is not showing in my bookmark folder, while other 37signals product showed.
Samantha Hartley | Enlightened Marketing
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations! Like others, I’m a huge fan and appreciate the added value I’ve been able to provide my clients’ businesses. I’ve enthusiastically passed the gift of Basecamp on to several others. Thank you for being a trusted resource.
P.S. I love your note about removing vapid comments! Must steal that one. ;)
Kristyn
on 05 Feb 10Basecamp Rocks!!!! Happy Birthday!!!
George Bonelli
on 05 Feb 10Well done….loved the book and the products!
Bhupal Limaye
on 05 Feb 10Congrats!
Best Wishes :) and keep up the GOOD work!
Raymond Klompsma
on 05 Feb 10Congrats from the Netherlands! You’re products are just great stuff to work with!
Teodor Bjerrang
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday!
Basecamp, first place to look in the morning after coffee.
Andzejs
on 05 Feb 10Thanks, Basecamp!
You rock! Happy Birthday!
Darren Wiseman
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday all at basecamp you have revolutionised our project management
Christopher Hawkins
on 05 Feb 10Wow, cool, congrats guys!
This reminds me, my business is turning 7 this week. It was just about a year after I started up that I read about the launch of Basecamp. What a trip.
Here’s to another 6 years and then some…
Michael
on 05 Feb 10Hi guys,
congrats and happy birthday!! I strongly recommend Basecamp. You created a revolutionary project management tool. Keep going on!!
ameria GmbH
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday! We’re are using Basecamp with 120 active projects, 200 people and are very satisfied. It simplified our business and helps us to create value.
Susanne
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday, Basecamp is a key tool for us to deliver projects with about 200 contributors around the world, across all time zones. We love it! Thanks for all your efforts, looking forward to new features.
Susanne
Henning
on 05 Feb 10Cograts you guys, love your products, keep up the good work!
Paweł Tkaczyk
on 05 Feb 10Keep up the good work, guys. And go international, please :)
Patrick
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday! I have been a happy customer for a couple of years now. Great work, and your Getting Real makes a difference.
Matt@vemm
on 05 Feb 10Congrats!
Keep ‘em coming, we love it here!!! Well done!
James O'Sullivan
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday BaseCamp. keep you the great work
John Stevens
on 05 Feb 10Congrats!! Take some cakes and coke and celibrate, but monday get back to work! ;)
Dave Jenkins
on 05 Feb 10Happy 6th guys, nice job!
Piotr - dot.solution
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations! :)
lluís Carrillo
on 05 Feb 10Per molts anys!
Richard Smith
on 05 Feb 10Well I must be one of Basecamp’s most diverse users as I use it to manage customer relations for my lawnmower servicing business – and it works great.
Well done guys. Exceptional software.
kempersolid
on 05 Feb 10I use BC to manage rental property, graduate classes, client work, and boat projects – love it! Happy B-day!
kempersolid
on 05 Feb 10I use BC to manage rental property, graduate classes, client work, and boat projects – love it! Happy B-day!
Ben itProject - Oz
on 05 Feb 10Congrats guys !! You should be really proud of your amazing achievement ! Ben
Todd Rosser
on 05 Feb 10I am still happy – and still using it….rare. I usually find something wrong and bail. There is something to be said for that!!! This has really changed the way we manage business. Thank you again.
Brendan Nee
on 05 Feb 10I think facebook and basecamp are exactly the same age, facebook turned 6 on Feb 4, 2010 as well: http://mashable.com/2010/02/04/happy-6th-birthday-facebook/
Chaula Ajmera
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday Basecamp…we love you :) Thanks to you, we can manage projects a whole lot better. Cheers and congratulations to the BasecampHQ team :)
Horacio Duek
on 05 Feb 10Congrats from Argentina! Basecamp rocks! (a Spanish version would be great)
Tomas Mikletic
on 05 Feb 10Guys, we seriously don’t know what we would be doing without you and Basecamp. It has made our work organized, our communication transparent and we think it is one of the biggest reasons we have such good relationships with our clients.
I’ve been using Basecamp since the first year it was on and I love it today more then ever.
happy birthday!
Dmitriy Podluzny
on 05 Feb 10You are the best!
Dr. Tom
on 05 Feb 10I’ve been using Basecamp for over two years and found it a great way to keep my virtual teams on task and focused. The simple / easy UI makes it easy for all to participate increasing the involvement and communications on a project which is directly proportional to its success.
Happy Birthday and keep up the good work!
Development team of Aiken Studio
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday! Wish you good luck and improvement of your cool web-based projects!:)
Raymond Brigleb
on 05 Feb 10Wow, I’ve been productive for that long now?!? Kudos to you 37signals. It’s the best paid service on the web.
Inspiradores.com
on 05 Feb 10Feliz cumpleaños, wish you an overseas user
Thiago
on 05 Feb 10Parabéns para toda equipe 37signals!!! Happy Brithday!! =D
Marc-André Lanciault
on 05 Feb 10Congratz guys! We have been using Basecamp since 2006 and it never failed to deliver the promise: Getting things done!
Thanks for creating such great products !
Paul Montwill - Switch Stories
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations! Jason, would you like to share with us what kind of numbers of customers/users you planned in the year one when launching the app? What was the reality?
JF
on 05 Feb 10Thanks everyone! Your enthusiasm and well wishes mean a lot to us.
David Blankenship
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday and thanks for helping our business to stay on top of all our important milestones and tasks!
Sue Dayton
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations! We LOVE Basecamp!
Duane Jennings
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday and congrats 37signals!
Jason Rundell
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday!!!
gonzalo chacon
on 05 Feb 10Feliz Cumpleaños y que cuando cumplan 7 implementen la version multilenguas de basecamp XD. Happy Birthday and for yours 7th make the basecamp multilingual version XD
Milton
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations. I was told there would be cake and last time I didn’t get any cake. OK…. this is the last straw!...
Markus Ulrich
on 05 Feb 10You have done a great job! Congratulation! Thank you very much.
Markus, developing games for adults in Switzerland
Divyesh Ardeshana
on 05 Feb 10Congratulation :) keep it up….
Fernando Bosch
on 05 Feb 10Basecamp a great utility. I can not live without it!
Congratulations!!
Blue Horse Corp
on 05 Feb 10Enhorabuena!
Pavel Kostychev
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday!
Denis
on 05 Feb 10congrats, guys! good job!
geofreitas
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday! I’m a creative and I love You guys! Where is the party?
Greeting from Brasil geO freitas www.geofreitas.com www.twitter.com/geofreitas
Vijay Mistry
on 05 Feb 10Congrats …. Great job so far …. Hip Hip …. Hoooray for BASECAMP!
Dinos Papoulias
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday to Basecamp!! I’m very happy and am looking forward to another six years. Thanks, and cheers!
Tom G
on 05 Feb 10We’ve been loving and using Basecamp since Nov 2004. It totally changed the way we work.
Ben Kinnaird
on 05 Feb 10Only been using since 2008 but has made a real difference to the way we work. May you live long and prosper Basecamp
Taragh
on 05 Feb 10Wonderful and beautiful work. A big congratulations. Best wishes.
Ariel
on 05 Feb 10just hopped on the basecamp bandwagon a month and a half ago and couldn’t be more thrilled about the birthday celebrations. I am hooked. Congrats
Gannon Beck
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday. You guys have a great product and I wish you continued success.
norismo
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday you have been a great help
Martin G. Smith
on 05 Feb 10Many Congrats to Jason and the Crew. You folks are the one constant in a world too fast for some to imagine and too often hard to sustain. Many Thanks
Claudia
on 05 Feb 10Happy 6th Basecamp…Im a newcomer, but so far so good…I’ll get back to you on your 7th….:)
Julián
on 05 Feb 10Estas son las mañanitas que cantaba el Rey David… ¡Feliz cumpleaños Basecamp!
Happy Birthday from a mexican user!
Nick Satkovich
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday!! Awesome work 37signals!!
Abelardo Diaz
on 05 Feb 10Just looking for Celebration discounts on my monthly payment…¿why not?,
Congratulations from Mexico!
Shreve
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday! What does 6 equal in software years?? As a Project Manager, when my team gripes they ‘don’t have that info’...I can always say, DID YOU LOOK IN BASECAMP??! Keep up the good work, and maybe consider adding a ‘time’ feature to Milestones :)
Adam Holden-Bache
on 05 Feb 10Basecamp has been a great help to our business. Thanks for a great product and best wishes for continued success!
Nate
on 05 Feb 10Happy Born Day, Basecamp—you cats are makin’ it happen. We love what you do! Here’s to many more!
Maurus
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday Basecamp!! That’s AWESEOME.
Aaron Wormus
on 05 Feb 10HAPPY BIRTHDAY! It’s been a great ride all these years :) Thanks for everything!
Gil
on 05 Feb 10Basecamp = WIne
Getting better with time
Great work!
Octavian
on 05 Feb 10Congratulations! You have an awesome product!
Anthony Barone
on 05 Feb 10Happy birthday Basecamp! Congrats Jason, David and the rest of the 37signals team. The Basecamp and Rails story kicks ass.
Robert Boulos
on 05 Feb 10Grand! We love you every day… in every steps of out day!
R
Mike M
on 05 Feb 10Great job guys! Keep up the good work!
Cheers.
Mike
Laurel
on 05 Feb 10Happy Birthday Basecamp!
You are an indispensable tool that has dramatically changed how we do our work. Thank you.
xo Laurel
Oyun Oyna
on 06 Feb 10that s amazing..Congrats.
MichaelNozbe
on 06 Feb 10Congrats guys!
You are an inspiration to all of us (startup owners) – it’s your Basecamp and Backpack that I created Nozbe
Today I wrote a blog post on my personal blog to tribute your birthday. The time flies, it’s amazing you’ve been inspiring and positively affecting startup scene more than 6 years now! Keep on keepin’ on!
Pura Vida Buenos Aires
on 06 Feb 10Felicidades! ..on behalf of the Pura Vida team in Argentina
Steve Y
on 06 Feb 10Would love an “Ask Mark” about your infrastructure. Happy birthday!
Riaz Salim
on 06 Feb 10Hi,
Congratulations! It is exciting for me to learn that we are using Basecamp almost the same year it was born :)
You helped us win and retain clients and improve how we server to them. Great job so far and keep improving for us!
Regards,
Riaz
Factoriatalio Design
on 06 Feb 10Happy Birthday!
Sofia
on 06 Feb 10Amazing job! Congratulations from Brazil :)
JT
on 06 Feb 10happy bday, basecamp! You guys are amazing!
RyanB
on 06 Feb 10Congrats and keep up the great work!
Joseph Cleary
on 06 Feb 10Like fine wine Basecamp gets better with age… Keep it up guys
John Peterson
on 06 Feb 10Thanks for a great product guys. Basecamp has increased the efficiency of my business by an order of magnitude.
I even had my main development machine go down on 02/05. Thanks to Basecamp and Subversion I’m up able to get work done, know which tasks I need to address, etc… on a completely different system. I’m billing on 02/06. Woohoo!
JOhn
Miguel
on 06 Feb 10Felicidades con el 6o. Aniversario, Me uno a la propuesta de Gonzalo, conviertan a Basecamp en Multilingual (Me interesa Español) no lo puedo llevar con mis clientes por estar en Inglés. Saludos.
Congratulatios for 6th birthday, I join Gonzalo’s claim for bringing Basecamp to multilingual (I care for Spanish) I can’t give Basecamp to my customers for being only in Englihs. Regards.
All-M Interactive
on 06 Feb 10Congrats! We had a great time with the BC. Hope Basecamp will get better every day!
Happy Birthday!
Lou
on 06 Feb 10Happy Birthday! Basecamp rocks!!! I recommend it to all my friends who own businesses.
Tim Martin
on 06 Feb 10Could we get some screenshots or maybe even working models of the past basecamps?
I’d love to see the progression.
tbkama
on 06 Feb 10Congrat Jason and team. Love Basecamp that i am using over the last 2 years. Honnestly, I wonder why Apple does not just buy Basecamp and set it in the iPad. This could be the best app for the business users than trying to mimic RIM. Anyway. I would like to know how many concurrent users do you have today (if not confidential) ? does 3,6 millions represent the cumulated nb of users since 2004 ? or the current active users for basecamp .
T.B.Kama
Neil Quinn
on 07 Feb 10Happy B’day Basecamp! Simply, keep on keepin’ it simple ;-)
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