BUILDING SINCE 2003 · NOT REVIEWED BY DAVID
David
Heinemeier Hansson
“I am the creator of Ruby on Rails, creator of Omarchy, co-owner of 37signals, best-selling author”in their words · dhh.dk
11
products
2003
building since
Career
Every main product, who ran it, and when it changed hands.
Omarchy2025 →
NOW
HEY2020 →
NOW
Basecamp2004 →
NOW
Ruby on Rails2004 →
NOW
Side projects7
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David runs ita new owner runs itsold, with the stated priceshut downside project
The journey
Launched Basecamp (2004), HEY (2020), Omarchy (2025); created Rails
Latest
Sep 2026Omarchy: Omarchy Quattro passed 200,000 ISO downloads
Aug 2026On Lex Fridman Podcast, episode 501
Jul 2026On Conversation with David Senra on his podcast
May 2026Basecamp: Released Basecamp 5, the fifth major version
Mar 2026Basecamp: Launched a fully agent-accessible Basecamp, with a new API and command-line tool
How sure are we?
8 verified by someone other than David57 stated by David in public3 outdated, older than our limits
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