In this Basecamp Office Hours session (recorded live on November 6, 2024), the two-person Quality Assurance team from 37signals walk through how they use Basecamp for QA. They share best practices for organizing projects for their QA function and answer customer questions live. Timestamps: For follow up questions, reach out to support@basecamp.com.

Public links let you share parts of Basecamp with people outside your account. Now they're even better! We made some improvements to publicly-shared content, including a visual update and a new feature to make public links even more useful.

Kamal is a tool for deploying your web applications anywhere.

Scheduling client meetings and team calls happens all the time in Basecamp. It's an essential tool, so we set out to improve the experience and bring over what we learned building HEY Calendar. That includes two new features — everyday language support for adding events and quick access to video meetings!

Pings are an essential communication tool in Basecamp — if you need to collaborate outside of a project or discuss something more privately, send a ping. But when you have a lot of pings with a lot of people, it’s hard to tell conversations apart. A single name and a few avatars are all you have to go by. You have to open each thread to figure out who’s in which one. Not anymore! Now in Basecamp, you can add a name and image to your pings so they’re easier to identify.

Need to track time so you can bill your client? Want to know who's spending how much time on what? Introducing Timesheet, an add-on that makes tracking time simple. Track time by clicking the green timer at the top of to-dos, cards, docs, and more. To capture work that happened elsewhere, add time to the project itself on the project home page. You can add hours for other people on the project, too, which is handy if they forgot.

Since HEY launched, we’ve heard from many of you who want to share all the goodness of HEY with the people in your family. We get it! We have partners, kids, and parents who would benefit from HEY, too. So, today we’re introducing HEY for Families — add up to 4 additional HEY accounts for just $179/year total! One person pays and invites everyone, but the accounts remain separate and private.

We know how critical it is to find the email you’re looking for quickly, so we just shipped significant improvements to search. We’re surfacing more relevant search results and you can filter results by attachment — like PDF, images, and more. You can also select emails in the search results and take action on them. To make the searching easier, you’ll see a list of recent searches before you even start typing in the field.

We made reassigning tasks and setting due dates from My Assignments quick and easy. Now you can make inline edits without having to go to a project first.

In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.