37Signals website in 2000 when they had 4 people and no DHH

by sudonim • 15 years ago

127 49 15 years ago

avrvrv• 15 years ago

What's a DHH ?

Daniel or David something, anyway the name, second name and surname of one of the current and most iconic 37 signals guys

davidw• 15 years ago

"Piling on" downvoting of someone who was sincerely answering a question is not nice. Think the answer is wrong or unhelpful or something? Vote it to 0 or -1 and leave it at that. Or don't bother...

haasted• 15 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson

He's a partner in 37signals and the creator of Ruby on Rails.

smallegan• 15 years ago

http://tinyurl.com/4mf5n5a

DTrejo• 15 years ago

DHH: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

guynamedloren• 15 years ago

Did I miss something here? What does this have to do with DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)?

DuncanIdaho• 15 years ago

DHH is a force of nature. Usually appears around topics that are part of Enterprise folklore and causes combustion of said topic.

DHH also caused Rails to happen. With it the DHH spawned another force of nature called the Rails community. The rails community acts very much like DHH and also causes various combustions of various topics. The Rails community also closely monitors DHH activities and should some threat to DHH arise, the Rails community spawns instantly to protect the pure essence of 37 signals idea that is DHH. Oh and Rails community also buys books that DHH has materialized.

aeden• 15 years ago

What an awesome comment. Worth permalinking.

dpritchett• 15 years ago

DHH is bad and nationwide.

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-bad-im-nationwid...

whatusername• 15 years ago

It's like the ZondaHH but not as fast or as pretty: http://zondahh.com/

mkramlich2• 15 years ago

According to Google it is: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

jasonfried3• 15 years ago

The home page and full site: http://37signals.com/manifesto

duck2• 15 years ago

The one I always enjoyed the most was from http://37signals.com/28: Trends are temporary. Don't just do something because everyone else is doing it – do something because it makes sense.

And for a good laugh: http://37signals.com/enormicom

willgodfrey2• 15 years ago

I know I sound curt, but don't you find the bit about trends you quoted a tad ironic here on HN?

I mean, what's more trendy in Web3.0 than web apps with landing pages featuring a few bands of color for a background, drop shadows, Apple-like icons, 2 short sentences, and a request to signup?

sudonim• 15 years ago

Jason, I stumbled upon this last night while googling. Im guessing that leaving this up is deliberate? What's your reasoning for doing so?

jonknee• 15 years ago

I'm sure it's nice to be able to point to something when people ask "What's with the name 37 Signals?".

dpkendal• 15 years ago

Cool URLs don't break.

jasonfried3• 15 years ago

We're still proud of it. I think a lot of it remains true. It's good to have a permanent reminder of where you started, too.

benatkin• 15 years ago

Thanks for giving us a proper gander. I knew there was something different about it from what I remembered!

oscardelben• 15 years ago

Aesthetically I would say it was a good looking website even by today's standards.

dasil003• 15 years ago

Especially when you compare it to the best designed websites of the time.

Granted, going minimalist was a very wise choice; IE6 was far and away the most advanced browser of the time, and the real thorn in every web designer's side was Netscape 4. But the bottom line is that the design holds up, which is remarkable regardless of which design direction you take.

mkr-hn2• 15 years ago

The drop-down navigation is a blast from the past.

Jem• 15 years ago

Yes, and now the next time one of my designer colleagues tries to use them in a website and I say "lay off, that's SO 2000" I have a working example to prove it.

kieranyo• 15 years ago

Woah I'd completely forgotten about K10K! (from http://37signals.com/23)

retlehs• 15 years ago

Back in 2002: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2340-flashback-the-37signals-...

ptn• 15 years ago

Does anybody know who those 4 guys were?

jasonfried3• 15 years ago

Jason Fried (me!)

Ernest Kim (now at Wieden+Kennedy, at Nike before that)

Carlos Segura (Segura, 5inch, t26)

Matt Linderman (still at 37signals)

silverlight• 15 years ago

I always wondered where the 37 signals came from:

"Mankind constantly analyzes radio waves from outer space in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since this analysis started, almost all of the signal sources have been identified. 37 signals, however, remain unexplained."

...a little more out there than I would have thought.

sili• 15 years ago

That would also explain their link to the SETI project at http://37signals.com/37. Edit: just noticed that it's also on 37th page of the site. Delightful.

glasner• 15 years ago

Quite the blast from the past. My favorite old link is to their 37better project:

http://37signals.com/better http://37signals.com/better/bank/index

run4yourlives• 15 years ago

The bank website is still better than 99% of all enterprise applications from a UI perspective.

noahc• 15 years ago

The biggest take away here is the iterative process they went through each day to get to where they are today. Imagine if I showed you the old 2000 homepage and today and said in 11 years they were going to have had a board seat on the fastest growing company ever, be making millions, and be the darling of every bootstrapped in the world.

The point start today and in eleven years you'll be some where.

autalpha• 15 years ago

heh, cute: <blink>12:00</blink> (http://37signals.com/03)

Johngibb• 15 years ago

I remember the days of clear.gif! (or blank.gif, spacer.gif, etc...)

lkozma• 15 years ago

Another design studio's credo: http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/

pixeloution• 15 years ago

37BetterBank: http://37signals.com/better/bank/index

This is still better then most banking websites. It's too bad no bank ever hired them to create the public facing UI.

angelbob• 15 years ago

Looks a lot like Mint. Wonder if that's intentional on Mint's part.

bradleyjoyce• 15 years ago

is it just me or does this get posted like once every 8 months or so?

mkr-hn2• 15 years ago

Some things are worth repeating as long as it's infrequent.

nedwin• 15 years ago

I hadn't seen it before, found it interesting and have also been here for a while.

camworld• 15 years ago

That's a classic. My old pioneering blog, camworld, is in there a few times. But I sold the domain several years ago. It's a porn site now. Oh well, the times. They do change...

37Signals website in 2000 when they had 4 people and no DHH

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