# Anyone tried Shaping Up across multiple products?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/anyone-tried-shaping-up-across-multiple-products/164 "2020-01-20T20:41:48Z")\
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@Aylon even the author of ShapeUp is in agreement with me: “For a while, the first set of cycles were purely R&D cycles.”

> [@HEY and the Shape Up method](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/hey-and-the-shape-up-method/398/4):
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> We used Shape Up 100% for Hey. 6 weeks at a time! That’s the whole idea. Choose what is most important first, make a six week commitment, then pick the next most important thing. We never made a specific commitment longer than six weeks, except for the broad commitment that some number of cycles would go toward Hey instead of Basecamp. For a while, the first set of cycles were purely R&D cycles. That means the work wasn’t really shaped, and the shaping and building happened in a blurry mix. T…

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