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status: To Read
title: Getting Real
subtitle: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
description: Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app - including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers - will find value and inspiration in this book. 37signals used the Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no outside funding, no debt, and only 7 people (distributed across 7 time zones). Over 500,000 people around the world use these applications to get things done. Now you can find out how they did it and how you can do it too. It's not as hard as you think if you Get Real.
categories:
- Non-fiction
- Software Development
authors:
- 37signals (Firm)
- [[Jason Fried]]
- [[David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)]]
published_on: 2006
publisher: 37signals
pages: 194
isbn: 578012812
cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NIZNQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api
local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Getting Real (book).jpg
link: https://amzn.to/3RUKzda
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created: 2024-07-05T14:38
updated: 2026-04-01T14:44
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# Getting Real (book)
- Author(s): 37signals (Firm), [[David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)]], [[Jason Fried]]
- Link: https://amzn.to/3RUKzda
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