Patrick Desroches

March 10, 2021

quickest feature-request-to-production turn-around in Basecamp history

Hi,

I really like the new Hey World feature included with all Hey accounts where you can just post a email to the world.

BUT unlike all other blog platforms it's really hard to discover new writers unless they share on Twitter their unique URL.

So I start doing some search on twitter using the world.hey.com URL and found some post but not a lot.

Hey world is great but we need a way to discover people and subscribe to some of them. I did a tweet where I pitch the idea of having a URL that show a random post from any writer to DHH and Jason Fried.

To my surprise, about 40 min later, the feature was live:

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I was expecting a positive response to my tweet but to have it live so quick was just awesome.

It's funny to see that 75% of the post we get from that random link are Hello World or test post. Maybe that new feature will put a bit more pressure on all writers knowing that their post can be seen by everybody now.

Thanks to the team at Basecamp for putting out such a great product.

Pat