In my eternal quest to be more organized and anal in my organizational stragies, I'd had basecamp on my radar for some time, but just got around to playing with it a few days ago. Basically, it's just a project management app, with todo lists, message boards (which border on blog-esque), milestones, calendars, etc. Wouldn't you know that the day I decided to put up a rant about the glory that is basecamp, would be the day they announce a price hike.
I gave it a few days to let it stew, and you know what? It really doesn't bother me. It's a pretty modest increase at my level, and it still seems worth every penny.
I've been trying to decide if I was more impressed with the site's functionality, the design and usability of the whole app, the responsiveness, or the open, frank, and right attitude of the product team. They've put together a great service, they offer a free trial, and then several pay plans, all very competitively priced. It's super easy to sign up, and amazingly enough, even easier to unsubscribe. Plus, for the geeks out there, they also offer RSS feeds and/or email notification for seemingly everything, making keeping up with your team a simple matter of a bloglines subscription. Add in calendar subscriptions for iCal or Mozilla calendar, and everyone is up to speed.
Those guys just seem to get it. All of it. And their app rocks. I was a 'free' subscriber for about 20 minutes, then I forked over the cash for a pay plan.
It's that good. If I can stick with it to nag myself about all the things I should be doing is another matter, but I'm going to see what happens.
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