“years and years and years ago 2006 we launched a product called campfire which was a group chat tool”
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Campfire
By 37signals
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UsesThe 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process
“at Foursquare reused I think it was called campfire back in the day for the 37 singles people”
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