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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Basecamp Client: Any Interest?

I'm considering developing a client for Basecamp similar to PackRat. If you'd be interested in such a product, let me know. I'd also like to know what you think it should do and what features it should have. I think this product has even more potential than PackRat and I'd love to get some feedback.

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posted by Rod Schmidt @ 2:56 PM    

9 Comments:

  • At 10:36 AM , Anonymous said...

    This would be sweet, one thing I would love is if you could work it so that events created in ical (specific to a cat) could be added as a milestone.

     

  • At 10:59 AM , Dan said...

    wow, yes please. Ive been waiting for something like this for a very long time.

    The iCal idea is great. Im not sure what else to add but i cant wait!

     

  • At 11:02 AM , a!e said...

    cool += 1;

    That would be *sweet*

     

  • At 11:05 AM , Kevin Brennan said...

    Definitely interested.

     

  • At 11:44 AM , José Manuel said...

    Very interested.
    Really a must.
    Keep easy and simple

     

  • At 1:08 PM , Wim said...

    Please do. Always super to have the data offline and secured on your laptop

     

  • At 2:15 PM , Craig said...

    I would definitely be interested in it, and would be willing to pay for such a thing if it incorporated most or all of Basecamp's features. I would like to see:

    - 2-way iCal integration with milestones
    - to-do list syncing with iCal
    - email posting of messages using Mail.app
    - Chat integration with iChat (I don't know if that's even possible)
    - easy upload and download of shared files

     

  • At 6:03 PM , Chris said...

    I always thought Basecamp needed a hybrid offline/online app similar to what Adobe is doing with Apollo. Whenever I'm working in the browser I have a tendency to always want whatever I'm looking at to change or whenever I'm finished with what I'm doing I always want to close it. Somewhat of a mental thing really...once the task is finished I can just get it out of my face. That's where I think apps like Packrat and if* you decide to go through with developing a basecamp client. I know there is a huge market for this as most people like me all suffer from the same thing. I bet basecamp has the same user login about 20 times a day! CHANGE THE ICON FOR PACKRAT SOON!!!

     

  • At 4:45 AM , David said...

    I am a big user of basecamp and would love to see a program of this type.

    An offline all feature version would be great. If you could tie in ical or gcal to that all the better. I know 37signals were going to do a calendar but I am not sure whats happening with that.

    I am happy to do beta testing on this.

     

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