type private industry software founded 2000 headquarters 55 broadway manhattan fidi new york ny usa key people joel spolsky michael pryor products fogbugz fog creek copilot citydesk kiln 1 trello slogan n a website www.fogcreek.com fog creek software is a software company specializing in project management tools . its main products are fogbugz a web based project management tool ; copilot a remote assistance tool ; citydesk a desktop based content management system ; and kiln a source control and code review tool built around mercurial and git . based in new york city fog creek was founded in 2000 as a consulting company by joel spolsky and michael pryor . as the consulting market started to dry up due to the collapse of the dot com bubble fog creek moved to a product based business releasing fogbugz and citydesk in 2001 . 2 in 2005 the company released fog creek copilot along with a documentary detailing the development process of the interns who created it . contents 1 offices 2 products 2.1 stack overflow 2.2 stack exchange 2.3 trello 2.4 copilot 2.5 fogbugz 3 references 4 external links offices edit one of the company s goals is to make the best programming work space possible . its first large office in midtown manhattan was custom designed by architect roy leone . it featured angled walls to allow programmers a window next to their computer monitor to reduce eye strain . 3 fog creek s new offices located in the financial district of manhattan have been similarly designed this time with adjustable height standing desks a library and fully stocked kitchen . 4 5 products edit stack overflow edit main article 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 . 6 users of stack overflow can earn reputation points and badges when another user votes up a question or answer they provided . 7 as of april 2014 update stack overflow has over 2 700 000 registered users and more than 7 100 000 questions . 8 9 based on the type of tags assigned to questions the top eight most discussed topics on the site are java javascript c php android jquery python and html . 10 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 . 11 stack exchange edit main article stack exchange in september 2009 fog creek software released a beta version of the stack exchange 1.0 platform 12 as a way for third parties to create their own communities based on the software behind stack overflow with monthly fees . 13 this white label service was not successful with few customers and slowly growing communities . 14 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 14 trello edit main article trello in 2011 fog creek released trello a collaborative project management hosted web application that operated under a freemium business model . trello was cross subsidized by the company s other products . a basic service is provided free of charge and a business class paid for service was launched in 2013 . 15 on july 2014 fog creek software spun off trello as its own company operating under the name of trello inc. 16 trello inc. raised 10.3 million in funding from index ventures and spark capital . 17 copilot edit in august 8 2005 fog creek launched copilot a remote assistance service . 18 originally known as project aardvark copilot was developed by a group of summer interns . 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 . 19 the interns set up a blog called project aardvark where they posted updates on the progress of their project to the world even though at that time the details of what they were working on was still a secret . on july 1 2005 the project aardvark team revealed that they were working on a remote assistance system for consumer use . 20 copilot uses a heavily modified version of tightvnc a variant of virtual network computing vnc as its core protocol . 21 on november 7 2005 they released a documentary on the interns summer titled aardvark d 12 weeks with geeks produced by lerone d. wilson of boondoggle films . 22 fogbugz edit main article fogbugz references edit kiln version control and code review software livingston 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