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Mar 9, 2021 34 min

HEY World

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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 a Web 1.0 typewriter for our current digital age. In this episode, we talk about the return of blogging, countering abuse, and the sunsetting of Basecamp's long-running Signal v. Noise blog. Stay tuned until the end for a chance to win some Basecamp bucks! And by Basecamp bucks, we mean actual American dollars. Show Notes HEY - 00:17 Jason's post announcing HEY World - 00:22 Signal v. Noise - 00:34 The dumpster fire project - 2:02 Jason on HEY World - 3:10 David on HEY World - 3:13 "Pick A Fight (on Twitter)," a vintage episode about David's relationship with Twitter - 3:28 "100% Facebook-Free," our episode about getting Basecamp off Facebook and Instagram - 4:40 "Two Weeks," our episode about launching HEY and running afoul of Apple - 5:21 Berkshire Hathaway's website - 18:23 The.Ink, Anand Giridharadas' newsletter - 18:45 The Lefsetz Letter - 20:21 HEY's Screener - 27:20 HEY's Shield - 27:44 Basecamp's "Until the end of the Internet" policy - 30:56 Greymatter - 31:34 David and Jason talk about how they met via email in this episode - 31:58

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