Hillchart and Basecamp

Hillchart vs Basecamp: a dedicated workspace for the hill

Basecamp introduced the hill chart as part of its Shape Up practice. Hillchart builds on that useful way of talking about progress with a dedicated workspace for teams that want their hill chart to stand on its own.

Basecamp owns the idea

Basecamp’s hill charts helped popularize a better question than “what percentage is this done?”: has the team figured out the work yet? They work naturally alongside Basecamp’s projects, messages, and to-dos.

If your team runs its work in Basecamp, its built-in hill charts may be the right place to start.

A workspace focused on project understanding

Hillchart is built around meaningful scopes and their changing certainty. It adds snapshots, view-only share links, embeds, timeline history, attention signals, and API, MCP, and webhook connections for workflows that need them.

Choose the home that fits your workflow

Use Basecamp when you want hill charts inside the broader Basecamp project experience. Use Hillchart when a dedicated, shareable uncertainty view is useful across the tools where your team already works.

  • Basecamp: hill charts within Basecamp projects
  • Hillchart: a focused hill-chart workspace
  • Both: use the hill chart to discuss understanding, not estimated completion