Basecamp is a web-based

Web application

A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...

 project-management tool developed by 37signals

37signals

37signals is a privately held web application company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. Segura left in 2000 and Kim left in 2003, leaving Fried as the only remaining founder.Since mid-2004, the...

 and launched in 2004. The Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

 framework

Web application framework

A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web applications and web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development...

 was extracted from the Basecamp project.

Features

Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. It also offers integration with 37signals' own Campfire product.

Basecamp is proprietary software

Proprietary software

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 available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Greek, Russian, Hungarian, and Japanese. Translations into additional languages are planned.

Add-ons

There are a large number of official and unofficial Basecamp addons that are available, mostly created by the Basecamp community. These addons are both in the form of web services (such as Tick (http://www.tickspot.com/screenshots/ss_basecamp.html) for Time Management) and desktop or mobile applications such as Timy (http://www.timy.be/) which allows users to out your timesheet easily from desktop or from mobile phone). There is also a web services and Google Chrome browser extensions called cloudHQ for Dropbox (http://cloudHQ.net/dropbox) which allows Basecamp users to synchronize Basecamp projects with Google Docs and Dropbox storage and also to edit Basecamp project attachments in the browser.

Competitors

• AceProject
  AceProject (Software)
  AceProject is a web-based project management software, owned by Websystems, Inc. The company is based in Quebec City, Canada. The product's interface is available in two languages: English and French. The product is a SaaS...
  
  
• Binfire - Project management tool for professionals and small businesses
• Deskaway - Web-based project management software with task and time tracking functionality.
• DUXme Project
• Huddle.net
  Huddle (software)
  Huddle is a web-based team collaboration and project management application developed in the UK.Huddle is privately held and funded by Eden Ventures and Matrix Partners.-Features:...
  
   - Cloud-based collaboration platform for business and government organizations
• LiquidPlanner
  LiquidPlanner
  LiquidPlanner, Inc. is a project management software company based in Washington. The firm was founded in 2006 and launched their first release to a public beta in 2008....
  
   - Online project management software for scheduling, collaboration, and time tracking
• MangoProjects
  MangoProjects
  MangoProjects is a project-management tool developed by MangoSpring and launched in 2010. Deployed as either Software as a Service or on-premises, MangoProjects offers a browser client, a desktop client running on Windows, Mac OS or Linux platforms, and mobile clients for devices including iPad,...
  
  
• Podio.com - Online work platform with a new take on how everyday work gets done
• Projecturf
  Projecturf (software)
  Projecturf is a web-based project-management tool created by Rareview and launched in March, 2008. A later version of Projecturf, version 2.0, was a complete redesign and released to the public in May, 2010...
  
  
• TeamLab - Multifunctional web office for business collaboration, document and project management
• Wrike - Project management and collaboration platform
• Zoho Projects
  Zoho Office Suite
  The Zoho Office Suite is a Web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, customer relationship management , project management, invoicing and other applications developed by ZOHO Corporation , a US-based company. It was...
  
  

See also

• Project management software
  Project management software
  Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to...
  
  
• List of project management software
• Project management
  Project management
  Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
  
  
• Web 2.0
  Web 2.0
  The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
  
  

External links

• Official site
• 37signals