FogBugz FogBugz is an integrated
web-based project management system featuring
bug and
issue tracking,
discussion forums,
wikis,
customer relationship management, and
evidence-based scheduling developed by Fog Creek Software. It was briefly rebranded as Manuscript in 2017, which was acquired in 2018 and was renamed back to FogBugz.
CityDesk CityDesk was a website management software package. The backend of the system ran as a desktop application written on Windows in Visual Basic 6.0 with all data stored in a Microsoft Jet database. It was one of FogCreek's first products, first announced in 2001.
Copilot Fog Creek Copilot was a remote assistance service offered by
Fog Creek Software. It launched on August 8, 2005. Originally known as Project Aardvark, Fog Creek Copilot was developed by a group of summer interns at Fog Creek Software. Fog Creek's founder,
Joel Spolsky, wanted to give his interns the experience of taking a project through its entire lifecycle from inception, to mature released product. The interns set up a
blog, called Project Aardvark, where they posted updates on the progress of their project, even though at that time the details were still secret. On July 1, 2005, the Project Aardvark team revealed that they were working on a remote assistance system for consumer use. Fog Creek Copilot uses a heavily modified version of
TightVNC, a variant of
Virtual Network Computing (VNC), as its core protocol. On November 7, 2005, a documentary on the interns' summer, titled
Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks, was released. It was produced by Lerone D. Wilson of Boondoggle Films. In 2014 Fog Creek restructured, spinning Copilot out as a separate company. In 2022, Copilot announced it was closing and that the domain name had been sold.
Stack Overflow In 2008,
Jeff Atwood and
Joel Spolsky created
Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site for
computer programming questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum
Experts-Exchange. Stack Overflow serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to a
wiki or
Digg. Users of Stack Overflow can earn
reputation points and "badges" when another user votes up a question or answer they provided. , Stack Overflow has over 12,000,000 registered users and more than 20,100,000 questions. Based on the type of
tags assigned to questions, the top ten most discussed topics on the site are:
JavaScript,
Java,
Python,
C#,
PHP,
Android,
HTML,
jQuery,
C++, and
CSS. Following the success of Stack Overflow they started additional sites in 2009 based on the Stack Overflow model: Server Fault for questions related to
system administration and Super User for questions from computer "
power users". In June 2021,
Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion.
Stack Exchange In September 2009, Fog Creek Software released a
beta version of the Stack Exchange 1.0 platform as a way for third parties to create their own communities based on the software behind Stack Overflow, with monthly fees. This
white label service was not successful, with few customers and slowly growing communities. In May 2010, Stack Overflow was spun-off as its own new company, Stack Exchange Inc., and raised $6 million in
venture capital from
Union Square Ventures and other investors, and it switched its focus to developing new sites for answering questions on specific subjects. In July 2014, Fog Creek Software spun off Trello as its own company operating under the name of Trello, Inc. Trello Inc. raised $10.3 million in funding from
Index Ventures and
Spark Capital. In January 2017,
Atlassian announced it was acquiring Trello for $425 million. == Glitch Products ==