Comments on: Bla-bla List

By: Jason Balaban

Jason Balaban — Wed, 04 May 2005 23:24:14 +0000

im gona get u, u sad little poo faces

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:29:08 +0000

Oh I love 37s. They got me into the web design game, which I subsequently left. But I also like competition so to speak.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:52:25 +0000

Are you not a 37s fan then, Scrivs? :)

I guess there’s always a backlash against things that appear to be bandwagons. RoR is just the latest in a long line…

I imagine someone will come up with the “Blue Fade Technique” just to compete :p

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:45:24 +0000

I’d agree with Matt – Taskthis! has the whole quality look ‘n’ feel down, which 37s also do very well, that instantly breeds confidence in the product.

Blabla List doesn’t. It looks amateur at best.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:07:24 +0000

http://taskthis.darthapo.com/

Is actually much more impressive.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:46:55 +0000

I’m with you, JC. I don’t understand Ta-da lists to begin with. Basecamp I understand — Ta-da lists I do not.

I’m sure they’re useful for some people, but I’ll stick to Post-its and Outlook Task functionality.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:34:08 +0000

Depends on who you are talking to.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:25:36 +0000

am I the only one who has no idea what the hell you’re talking about?

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:39:46 +0000

Even if Bla-bla List turns out better, 37s does deserve credit for responding to an obvious need (we had databases, but we didn’t have a decent to-do list for a long time) and creating a great product.

Sometimes people get carried away trying to make OpenSource versions of everything.

By: tony

tony — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:59:40 +0000

I thought this was a joke! I thought they were parodying F/OSS clones of products with buzz word explanations :P

By: James Archer

James Archer — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:54:41 +0000

I’ve heard these arguments before, but I think what this “proof” experiments fail to take into account is the time taken to explore, experiment, and innovate. That’s what 37signals did in short order, and what a site like this is failing to do.

It took Amazon a ton of time and money to come up with an online shopping experience that worked well. It then took some guy in India about a week to reverse-engineer it and release a shopping web app that worked similarly.

37s innovates quickly and effectively, and that’s their strong point. Anyone can reverse engineer their work and program it as fast or faster — but so far very few folks have been able to do comparable things from scratch without having a precedent.