EPISODE 0118 - APR 13, 2021
with Michael Berger and Scott Ballard-Ridley
How Basecamp’s Michael Berger approached accessibility during the development of HEY, including collaborating with a blind Basecamp user on accessible features that ultimately improved the experience for everyone.
Basecamp Behind the Scenes,
HEY
EPISODE 0113 - MAR 9, 2021
with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson talk about HEY World, a new feature of the HEY email service where customers can create a super simple blog. HEY World has no templates, no endless scroll, no ads, no trackers, and no JavaScript. It represents Basecamp’s attempt to create...
HEY
EPISODE 0108 - DEC 15, 2020
with Andy Didorosi, Adam Stoddard, and Nathan Anderson
HEY launch, App Store, we can’t take it anymore 🎵 Antitrust, masks a must, let’s go eat the upper crust 🎵 Comfy pants, TikTok dance, POTUS rants, protest chants 🎵 COVID cruise can’t disembark, David’s back in Denmark 🎵 We didn’t start the fire—well, in this case we did.
HEY
EPISODE 0107 - DEC 8, 2020
with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Basecamp is winding down a busy year with one more thing: the rollout of its HEY email service for the workplace. Co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson talk about privacy, marketing, onboarding, and the other considerations that went into making HEY for Work. They also reflect on the...
HEY
EPISODE 0093 - JUL 28, 2020
with Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andrea LaRowe, Jonas Downey, Kristin Aardsma, Javan Makhmali, and others
Basecamp released its new email service, HEY, on June 15. It was supposed to be a calm, controlled product launch, but what followed was a period that CEO Jason Fried described as “chaotic, enthralling, (and) horrible.” Basecamp got into a public fight with Apple over the HEY iOS app and the...
HEY,
Greatest Hits
EPISODE 0092 - JUL 21, 2020
with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held a recent livestream session where they answered questions about HEY, the company’s new email service. You can listen to Part 1 or watch the entire livestream on YouTube.
HEY
EPISODE 0091 - JUL 14, 2020
with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held a livestream session where they answered audience questions about Hey, Basecamp’s new email service. In Part One, they discuss feature requests, customer support, and plans for hiring. The full Q&A can be viewed on YouTube.
HEY
EPISODE 0090 - JUL 7, 2020
with Adam Stoddard
Basecamp’s marketing designer, Adam Stoddard, talks about how Hey’s visual brand came to be. He discusses influences from Pixar to Charles and Ray Eames to The Raveonettes, and reflects on what it’s like to work as a department of one on such an all-encompassing project.
HEY
EPISODE 0089 - JUN 30, 2020
with Merissa Dawson
To show off the features of HEY, Basecamp’s new email service, we needed a fully featured and realistic demo account. That meant writing dozens of fictional emails—a task that fell to Merissa of Basecamp’s customer support team. She comes on Rework to talk about her epistolary opus.
HEY
EPISODE 0088 - JUN 23, 2020
with Jonas Downey
Basecamp design lead Jonas Downey was one of the first people to experiment with what would eventually become Hey, Basecamp’s newly launched email service. Jonas comes on Rework to talk about building software for humans, preserving a sense of fun weirdness as a new product evolves, and managing a...
HEY