Fizzy from 37Signals out in the open

This article is not about Fizzy as a product, but rather about the decisions 37Signals make regarding how to launch their product.

First off, they have been working very openly on this project for a long time now. The founder, Jason Fried, have made multiple videos along the way showing WIP stages. I've found them very interesting to follow. Jason Fried has done this for many years also on other products, but it feels like he made it even more a focus while developing Fizzy.

Anyways, today they launched the product, and a few things stand out:

• It has a very generous free tier, and no card required.
• It is open source, so you can optionally run it yourself.
• They released the full codebase including all commits

The last point is actually the most interesting to me.

I mean, its almost 8000 commits, and it starts with "New Rails app" in june 2024. The whole process from there shows a lot of interesting decisions along the way. Combined with the process videos from Jason it really shows how 37Signals work.

That's pretty cool!