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That's pretty damn good, but http://74signals.com/ is still my favorite (read the page title).

I still prefer The 38th Signal: http://38thsignal.blogspot.com/2007/07/phone-tells-you-that-...

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If only this were a joke.

(Thanks, davidw, you made my day!)

Now if only he got you to do a video testimonial...

Man, these guys are really ripping off... oh.

Worth noting this comes from our very own davidw.

All the 37signals talk yesterday was too much, and I had to get that one out of my head. Truth be told, I really do like what they've done, and love Rails, but they seem to take themselves awfully seriously at times.

“73primenumbers is a refreshing model of humility in an industry ruled by hype and buzz.”

Worth it for that quote alone. Thanks (:

What a coincidence, I too like my eggs boiled not fried!

It reminds me of various Tom de Marco advices for project management, where he emphasizes that most of the time you don't need fancy tools.

All in all, it's a great parody of 37signals.

http://sqlonrails.org

Full disclosure: I was part of the team (with mrshoe, chmullig) that put it together for 4/1/06.

http://www.coboloncogs.org/

Don't forget to charge from day one :P

I kind of thought about including a link to some pencils and notebooks on Amazon, but I thought it would be a better parody without that.

See also http://www.techstuff.ca/store/ (my April Fool's joke from a few years ago).

Why "Trailer Park"? I suppose it's a pun on something?

Campfire?

Basecamp? Backpack? Highrise?

Obviously. I just don't.. hmm, "feel" the pun.

“Trailer Park is addictively easy-to-use. It’s so simple even a fucking idiot could use it” -A fucking idiot

Nice parody on the whole "let's make a webapp to help people track their todo lists".

If you want "safe, secure, and backed up" you need some sort of auto-duplicating paper (common for lab notebooks) and somewhere to store it.

unless "backed up" means "piled against the wall in the corner"

i guess they use photocopy machines for backup .. in the cloud of course

Could anyone explain what this is all about?

http://73primenumbers.com/about.html

  "In case you didn't get it...

  This site is a parody of 37signals.com, who I actually
  respect and admire quite a bit. I especially love
  Ruby on Rails, and am grateful to them for releasing it."

I realize it's a parody, I'm just struggling to figure out what its purpose is, or why it's funny.

In the hu-man societies, it is customary to utilize what that species calls "hu-mor". This "hu-mor" apparently causes pleasant sensations in their brains, specifically triggering the nucleus accumbens. We are still struggling to understand just what makes for "hu-mor", but it is clear that it is not identical for all of the hu-mans: what some find "entertaining", others do not. Yet another facet of this fascinating life form that needs further study.

http://37signals.com/

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