Learn more about David Heinemeier Hansson and Basecamp (also HEY) the All-In-One Toolkit for Remote Work

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY), NYT best-selling author (REWORK, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, REMOTE), Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, investor in Danish startups, frequent podcast guest, and a family man.

He writes regularly on HEY World and speak on The REWORK Podcast.

 

Creator of Ruby on Rails: Hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world have built amazing applications using Ruby on Rails. The open-source web framework that David created in 2003 and continue to develop to this day. Some of the more famous include Github, Shopify, Airbnb, Square, Coinbase, and Zendesk.

Co-owner of 37signals: 37signals is the company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. David own that business together with Jason Fried. They’ve been around since 1999.

Basecamp is the one-place-not-all-over-the-place way to organize your projects and your company. Launched in 2004 as one of the first software-as-a-service applications and used by millions of people. It’s the original Rails application.

HEY is a fresh approach to turning email into something you want to use, not something you’re forced to deal with. A complete alternative to Gmail or Outlook for individuals and companies who want a better relationship with email. Tens of thousands of customers have embraced it since they launched in 2020.

ONCE is a return to software products, away from services, monthly subscriptions, and shared data. Software you can own with source code you can read and change. Their first offering is Campfire, super simple group chat for a one-time price. Their second offering is a free online book creator called Writebook.

Best-selling Author: David Heinemeier Hansson wrote four books together with Jason Fried. All on the lessons they’ve extracted from running 37signals in an unconventional way over the last twenty-plus years.