FogBugz is back … actually, we never left. We’ve rebranded back to our origins. We began 2018 as Manuscript and we wrapped-up the year as FogBugz!
FogBugz was born in 2000, created by the legendary Joel Spolsky, following a very simple and effective philosophy: “Listen to your customers, not your competitors.” The idea was for it to be an off-the-shelf company, so FogBugz didn’t work with customized offers, rather, listen to our customers in order to build a product that works for everyone. Every time there was an interesting feature to develop, we’d put more effort into it, and build it in a way that would fit all our customers.
That’s how Fogbugz was created; a tool born from real needs and feedback from people that were using it. FogBugz became the first issue tracking tool in the market, and other competitors started to appear, trying to copy what we built.
FogBugz continued to grow, becoming everything a dev team needs to start managing a project effectively, without complicated workflows getting in the way. As customers shared more needs with us, we created Kiln, the version control tool … exactly what developers were asking for: a place to keep track of any part of their code, making it available to branch, merge, clone, push, or pull.
In November 2017, FogCreek, the company that created Fogbugz, decided to change the name of the product, and called it Manuscript, giving it a new website and changing the branding of the product.
We acquired the app in August, 2018, with big plans of giving it a new face, and improving what is already a very effective tool. Even with the new name, Manuscript kept having the spirit of Fogbugz, and was well known by that name. That’s why we decided to change the name back, to return it to it’s true essence.
FogBugz is back!
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