Getting Real, our book about a smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application, is now available as a free PDF (it used to cost $19).
We’ve used the Getting Real methods to develop all of our products. Here’s what other people have said about Getting Real.
Head over to the Getting Real site to get your free PDF of Getting Real. We hope you enjoy it.
Gabriele
on 24 May 12Done, thanks! I finished Rework just a couple of days ago and I truly loved it!
Mark Wilden
on 24 May 12Anyone who hasn’t read Getting Real yet because it cost too much needs to get their head examined.
Tim
on 24 May 12Read this book years ago and it truly was one of the catalysts for how I work today.
Thanks for making it free.
Lemi
on 24 May 12Getting Real really helped me changed my vision of software development.
Chris Harrison
on 24 May 12Thank you.
Tammy
on 24 May 12Thank you so much for offering this! I loved Rework. Looking forward to reading this one over the holiday weekend!
Dimitris
on 24 May 12Read the book on iBooks. I think everyone should read it. Thanks for making it free.
W. Szabó Péter
on 24 May 12Thanks a lot for this insane offer. I will reread it on my iPad during my vacation.
Mike
on 24 May 12What an amazing site design http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Jesper
on 24 May 12Thanks for making it available for free.
Maybe this will come across as ungrateful on the back end of receiving a gift, but I would have liked to have seen the note about the mailing list before I entered my email address. It’s probably the easiest thing in the world to unsubscribe and the messages are probably so good that I won’t want to. That form not being up-front with me about it still stung a little. If you’re going to sign people up to a mailing list, do it with conviction; not in a way that, if you don’t know 37signals and their excellent track record already, looks like a ruse.
Thanks again; if it’s good and you provide a way to nevertheless pay for it without shipping around a physical book, I will do so.
Clare
on 25 May 12Thank you so much! That was jolly nice of you. I read Rework a couple months ago – enjoyed it, especially what you said about writing, and your insights about the usefulness of constraints.
Sally
on 25 May 12I am in Australia, I can’t open the link and get the book. Why?
Rob
on 25 May 12Thank you
Mike Critchley
on 25 May 12Just reading it now. I first heard of these ideas from David’s “Unlearn your MBA” Stanford podcast. It’s one of the few presentations I’ve listened to more than once. In fact, I have been through it about 6 times now (mostly because I love it when people have the cajones to call BS when they see it!).
Anyway, I was involved in an educational start up that basically went against most of what you wrote - trying to do all the BizDev and chasing VC money before we even had a product - that startup is now history. Lesson learned, but wish I’d read this book before going through all that. Thanks VERY much for offering this one up for free. I hope to be able to do the same some day!
Tim
on 25 May 12Annoyed I paid for it now. Regret = bad for customers to feel
Steve
on 26 May 12Tim, you are a cheap ass that a few dollars annoys you.
Tsybart
on 26 May 12Thank for this! Used for my web idea.
Jason
on 28 May 12I’ll keep this on my iPad!
Ant1j
on 30 May 12Thanks a lot for this wonderful gift! Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit very well with Kindle, and using converting programs (k2pdfopt) doesn’t help either. Any chance we could get a Kindle-optimized version? (I know I am very demanding here …)
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