---
title: Thank You!
teaser: 'We''d like to take the time to express all that we''re thankful for in this
  past year.

  '
tags: news
author: Melissa Xie
published_on: 2016-11-24
---

Happy Thanksgiving!
Once again, we'd like to share all we are thankful for in this past year.

## Our teammates and our loved ones

Thank you to all our teammates,
far and near,
who continue to make thoughtbot
such a wonderful place to be a part of.
We've accomplished a great deal together
through client projects,
open source,
community events,
producing awesome content,
managing offices and company-wide operations,
and
many more things
that not only keep us going
but also happy.

Thank you to our loved ones —
families,
friends,
partners,
and
pets —
for their support.

## Our customers

Thank you to our clients,
who entrust us with
their ideas and mission,
and
keep us excited to
collaborate and solve challenges together.

Thank you to
our [Upcase] subscribers,
[FormKeep] users,
and
those who use [Hound] to
keep their code in style.

Thank you to
our mobile users who
check the weather on [Tropos],
fight in space on [Rototo],
keep up their GIF game on [Poppins],
and now
check how late their train is
on [Purple Train].

Thank you to all the listeners of our [podcasts] and the readers of our [e-books].

[Upcase]: https://thoughtbot.com/upcase
[FormKeep]: https://formkeep.com/
[Hound]: https://houndci.com/
[Tropos]: http://troposweather.com/
[Rototo]: http://playroto.to/
[Poppins]: http://poppins.life/
[Purple Train]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thoughtbot.purpletrain
[podcasts]: https://thoughtbot.com/learn#podcasts
[e-books]: https://thoughtbot.com/learn#books

## Our podcast guests

Thank you to
all of our amazing guests who
shared their thoughts, jokes, experiences, and expertise with us on our podcasts:

[Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots][Giant Robots] -
Ashe Dryden,
Brian Balfour,
Eric Normand,
Hiten Shah,
Laura Roeder,
Lincoln Murphy,
Mike Perham,
Ryan Buckley,
and
[Steli Efti].

[The Bike Shed] -
Aaron Patterson,
Ashley Williams,
José Valim,
Katherine Fellows,
Katrina Owen,
Rafael Franca,
Sandi Metz,
Steve Klabnik,
and
Terence Lee.

[Build Phase] - Chris Eidhoff.

[The Laila & Brenda Show] - Jessie Young and Daniel X. Moore.

Thank you to
Derrick Reimer and Nick Gauthier
for being excellent guest co-hosts on Giant Robots.

[The Bike Shed]: http://bikeshed.fm/
[Build Phase]: http://buildphase.fm/
[Giant Robots]: http://giantrobots.fm/
[The Laila & Brenda Show]: http://lailaandbrenda.fm/
[Steli Efti]: https://blog.close.com/

## Our business partners

Thank you to Gesmer Updegrove and to Ashfords
for handling our legal needs
in the US and UK,
respectively.

Thank you to [Supporting Strategies] for handling our accounting and bookkeeping.

Thank you to
[BCA Benefits Group],
[Commonwealth Financial Group],
[Platinum Pension Group],
and
[DC Advisors]
for helping us manage our benefits.

Thank you to
CENTRL Office and WeWork Congress in Portland,
CityCoHo in Philadelpha,
The Park in Stockholm,
Industrious in Raleigh,
and
WeWork in Austin
for hosting our offices
in their coworking spaces.

[Supporting Strategies]: http://www.supportingstrategies.com/
[BCA Benefits Group]: http://bcabenefitsgroup.com/
[Commonwealth Financial Group]: http://www.commonwealthfinancialgroup.com/
[Platinum Pension Group]: http://www.platinumpensions.com/
[DC Advisors]: http://dcadvisorsllc.com/

## Open source maintainers and contributors

Thank you to
every person who
contributes to our open source projects,
whether through reporting an issue,
commenting with their feedback,
or submitting a pull request.

Thank you to
the creators,
core teams,
and
contributors of
the programming languages and tools we use every day —
Angular,
Carthage,
Cocoapods,
Django,
Elm,
Elixir,
Emacs,
Ember,
Go,
Godeps,
Haml,
Haskell,
Neovim,
Phoenix,
Postgres,
RSpec,
React,
Redis,
Redux,
Rubocop,
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
Sass,
Slim,
Swift,
rbenv,
vi,
vim.

Thank you to
the Docker team for Docker
and
the Docker Captains who share their knowledge and expertise on the platform.

Thank you to the Homebrew team for
building and maintaining the Homebrew package manager on OS X.

Thank you to the OpenBSD community for
their work on OpenSSH, tmux, and LibreSSL.

## Our service providers

Thank you to CodeClimate and CircleCI for
providing insight about the quality of our code.

Thank you to Dribbble for
inspiring us and letting us share our visions.

Thank you to
Dropbox and Fastly
for hosting large design assets and important files.

Thank you to Fog Creek Software for Trello,
helping us stay on top of our ideas and tasks.

Thank you to GitHub for
hosting all of our open source and private code.

Thank you to Heroku for
the platform that we use to deploy and manage our applications.

Thank you to Namely for helping us
manage our payroll and benefits,
and
conduct performance reviews.

Thank you to
RubyGems.org, Rails Assets, Hex, and npm
for hosting software which makes our lives easier.

Thank you to Slack for
enabling our team to stay connected
with each other across thousands of miles.

Thank you to Google Fonts for
serving up fonts for us and our clients.

Thank you to Workable for
providing us a streamlined way to find amazing new teammates.

## Event organizers and our local communities

Thank you to
event organizers all over the world
who host and facilitate events and meetups
or
allow us to do so.
Their support continues to inspire and grow
designer and developer communities all around the world.

Thank you to everyone in our local communities of
[Austin](https://thoughtbot.com/austin),
[Boston](https://thoughtbot.com/boston),
[Denver](https://thoughtbot.com/denver),
[London](https://thoughtbot.com/london),
[New York City](https://thoughtbot.com/new-york-city),
[Portland](https://thoughtbot.com/portland),
[Raleigh](https://thoughtbot.com/raleigh),
[San Francisco](https://thoughtbot.com/san-francisco),
[Stockholm](https://thoughtbot.com/stockholm),
and [Washington, D.C.](https://thoughtbot.com/washington-d-c)
with whom we've gotten to know and share these experiences.

## And you

Thank you for
reading,
listening,
and talking
to us this year.
Thank you for
giving us your feedback,
being part of our community,
and
having us be a part of yours.

Love,
<br />
thoughtbot

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