
As of August 2018, the Highrise product also stopped accepting new signups. In 2014, 37signals changed its name to Basecamp and chose to focus solely on that product. The same year, Jason Fried, 37signals CEO, was included among MIT Technology Review's TR35 honoring technologists and scientists under the age of 35 for their ground-breaking inventions and research. In 2006, the company announced that Jeff Bezos had acquired a minority stake via his personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. The Ruby on Rails web application framework was extracted from the work on Basecamp and released as open source. īy 2005, the company had moved away from consulting work to focus exclusively on its own web applications. Work on the company's first product, the project management application Basecamp, began in 2003.

The company 37signals was originally named after the 37 extraterrestrial radio signals identified by astronomer Paul Horowitz as potential messages from extraterrestrial intelligence. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have published several books under the 37signals name, and in May 2022, citing their present-day focus on both Basecamp and HEY, reverted to 37signals as their company name.

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In February 2014, the company adopted a new strategy, focusing entirely on its flagship product, the software package also named Basecamp, and renaming the company from 37signals to Basecamp. The open source web application framework Ruby on Rails was initially created for internal use at 37signals, before being publicly released in 2004. Its first commercial application was Basecamp, followed by Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise. Since mid‑2004, the company's focus has shifted from web design to web application development. The firm was co‑founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. 37signals (formerly Basecamp before reverting to its original name) is an American web software company based in Chicago, Illinois.
