Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

17/07/08 Using BaseCamp to get a founders email

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - Want the personal email address of a company founder? Chances are they set up their project management tool themselves, and if they use BaseCamp all you’ve got to do is guess their subdomain…

I tried 37signals.grouphub.com (a basecamp url - which turns out it doesn’t look like 37 Signals use for themselves - s37 wasn’t enabled either).

Then follow these steps…

Why it reveals this information to you on screen is bizarre. I’m sure they’ll remove that.

BaseCamp is excellent - and excellent inspiration. I really love how their stuff works and always check how 37s did something before I implement. That’s how I found this glitch out - copying their forgotten password user-experience flow ;-)

(I realise guessing their subdomain is probably only as hard as guessing their email address straight out. Yet it gives you confirmation - especially if you’re trying to reach someone first time.)

-Robin.

Tags: basecamp

Write Comment

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail

---

---