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Getting Real

By Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

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Getting Real

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An unconventional take on how to design web-based applications and online portals, with creative advice that can help any company adopt a lean, user-friendly approach for their next project in a low-risk, low-investment way.

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Who should read Getting Real

Entrepreneurs and startups • software designers • C-Suite level executives and other business leaders • web developers • programmers

About the author of Getting Real

As the co-founder and president of 37signals, Jason Fried remains as committed to scrappy, web-based tools that work as he did when he initially developed Basecamp and other leading enterprise software solutions. David Heinemeier Hasson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, which is the platform of choice for Twitter, Shopify, and more than one million other web apps.

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