We are pretty active on Twitter. It’s a great way to get quick messages out as we release new features. We love to hear what you have to say about Harvest, good or bad.
It would not be particularly efficient for everyone on the team to watch the flow of tweets about Harvest. So, for those [...]
Category: Co-op
Co-op, Twitter, and Motivation with Cobot
Introducing Cobot: System Messaging for Co-op
The Harvest Team communicates with Co-op all day, every day. It is the visual heartbeat of our team, as we share failures, successes and silliness from our work days and our lives. While this heartbeat is strong, it also has an obvious arrhythmia: no system status messages.
For the past couple weeks we have been refining [...]
Scheduled Maintenance: Sunday, Feb 28 2am – 5am EST (moved)
FEB 25th UPDATE: We’ve made some further improvements to the Harvest systems setup and we will now be doing this server migration on Sunday, Feb 28 2am – 5am EST (what time is that for you?). We’ll keep you posted on the progress.
We have been working on a new systems platform for Harvest and Co-op [...]
Scheduled Maintenance Saturday Jan 30th, 1am – 2am EST
UPDATE: Maintenance is complete and service is back online.
As a hosted software service we need to upgrade our server hardware from time to time. We’ll be taking Harvest and Co-op offline between 1am – 2am EST on Saturday January 30th (what time is this for you?) to upgrade storage on our database systems. Generally this [...]
Communicating Effectively With A Team Located Around The Globe
Though Harvest Headquarters are located in New York City, a few members of the team are located in different parts of the world, across the U.S. and Europe. Over the years, we have learned a thing or two about communicating efficiently over time and space. These tips are likely to be appropriate for all teams [...]
Scheduled Maintenance for Co-op: Sunday December 13th, 2am-3am EST
We will be performing some hardware upgrades on servers, which will mean a small service interruption for Co-op (as well as this blog) between 2am – 3am EST on Sunday December 13th, 2009. Find out what time that is for you.
Thanks for your patience and continued support!
Note: Upgrade complete and everything is back online.
Use Co-op with Harvest? Try iCo-op for your iPhone
Co-op is our simple solution for team collaboration. It’s a tool we use everyday to keep each other updated on what we’re working on right now and what we plan to work on later. It has made us more efficient as well as have more fun throughout the work day; it’s our central [...]
Co-op, a free communication tool for teams, has launched!
We’re proud to announce that Co-op, our newest creation which works great as a Harvest add-on or as a stand-alone app, has officially launched.
Co-op is a free web-app that helps small teams answer three questions: 1) what is everyone doing now, 2) what are we working on today, and 3) what have we accomplished yesterday. [...]
The Next Little Thing from Harvest
Here at Harvest, we constantly aim to optimize our internal process, communication, and productivity. Our team is spread across 3 locations, 3 timezones. We stay in touch with a variety of great tools including 37signal’s Basecamp for project management and Campfire for group chat. Over the last couple months, we added another layer of casual [...]


