3 resources from Basecamp we point founders to, and the questions each answers.
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Why we picked it
This is the canonical case for running distributed work well, written by the founders of Basecamp who built a remote company long before it was normal. If you are managing an offshore or remote dev team, start here for the mindset shift: you manage output and trust, not hours in a chair. Treat it as a starting point for how to think about remote work, then adapt the tactics to your own team.
Why we picked it
This chapter argues you can think through a whole flow with words and crude sketches before any real design tool. Breadboarding lists screens and clicks as plain text, and fat marker sketches stay too rough to bikeshed. It is a useful counterweight, sometimes the fastest wireframe is on paper, and it frees a founder from thinking Figma is mandatory.
Why we picked it
37signals' own internal rules for when something is done enough to ship, written by a team that has shipped products for over two decades. The principle 'we ship to our appetite' (a fixed time budget forces the decision) is a concrete rule you can borrow for your own page.
