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37signals

Software company building products like Fizzy with developer-friendly APIs. Every AI Founder Weekly story on 37signals, newest first. 3 stories since September 2026.

  • Fried says agents let him build a tool he never could have

    The blocker he names is not money or talent on staff, it is the cost of asking a colleague to go build a side idea.

    · What changed under us

  • DHH says hand-coding is no longer economically viable

    His 37signals co-founder Jason Fried says he is designing software solo again after 15 years of mostly directing others.

    · What changed under us

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  • 37signals hired Rob Zolkos, who never applied

    Jason Fried says the work happened on 37signals' own product, with no job posting and no application.

    · Stolen playbooks

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