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Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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Sniffing around the source, looks like a Backbone.js app -- cheers. I'd love to add it to the homepage as an example, if you want to email me a brief paragraph of description. Edit For those poking around, check out the top-level "Models" namespace.

Node, Backbone, CoffeeScript and MongoDB

Any reason you didn't use Socket.io? I noticed you're polling the server every few seconds for updates.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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You can actually view the live Trello Development board itself here: https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa113... I'm impressed they're so transparent with their development process.

It's mostly read-only, which you'd expect. Except I was surprised I was aloud to vote on their cards. I wonder what prompted that design decision.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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This is really cool. I like it a lot. But I think "organize everything" is a bit of a hyperbolic catchphrase. It seems to be very task-oriented. It doesn't feel like something you can just throw random ideas, say for a screenplay, into to organize them.

Still, as long as it stays free or even inexpensive it might be my goto tool for task management. I'll need to try it. I like that it works on my iPad without much fuss.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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Looks pretty awesome in my 5 min trial. Back of the card is very well done. This will could go way beyond the software crowd to a general organization app..I just hope this thing scales well and they clarify their upload limits and such. Edit 1: I tried their iPhone app and it's very far from their web interface - took me 6-7 clicks just to get to a checklist for one of the items. It's commendable that they have a ap…

One of the devs whipped the iPhone app up in essentially 2 weeks after some of our earlier plans with a contractor fell through. It was literally meant to be there on launch read-only. We know it's got a ways to go, but given the time constraints it was the best we could do (IMHO it was better than anything I thought we'd be able to do... Justin really cranked on it)

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Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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post #52
post #18

Looks pretty awesome in my 5 min trial. Back of the card is very well done. This will could go way beyond the software crowd to a general organization app..I just hope this thing scales well and they clarify their upload limits and such. Edit 1: I tried their iPhone app and it's very far from their web interface - took me 6-7 clicks just to get to a checklist for one of the items. It's commendable that they have a ap…

One of the devs whipped the iPhone app up in essentially 2 weeks after some of our earlier plans with a contractor fell through. It was literally meant to be there on launch read-only. We know it's got a ways to go, but given the time constraints it was the best we could do (IMHO it was better than anything I thought we'd be able to do... Justin really cranked on it)

Thanks for clearing that up.

Perhaps you guys could push out an update that more clearly communicates that it's for viewing only? I searched the whole app looking for how to edit things before slowly coming to realize that it wasn't possible.

Love it though. The web UI is great and the iPhone client looks promising.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

#157

Damn this is pretty similar to the direction my app Wallboardr is taking, except status columns aren't customisable yet. Any thoughts on comparison folks? http://wallboardr.com

If you end up open sourcing it, let me know, I'd be interested in helping out.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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post #44

Sniffing around the source, looks like a Backbone.js app -- cheers. I'd love to add it to the homepage as an example, if you want to email me a brief paragraph of description. Edit For those poking around, check out the top-level "Models" namespace.

Node, Backbone, CoffeeScript and MongoDB

What is your aversion to software written before 2011?

;-)

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the nice words! I'm not sure about IE8, but, this being a new product, I specifically told the team not to worry about any non-current browsers. By the time this product hits its stride, IE14 will be shipping.

Too bad XP users will still be stuck with IE8 ;)

or latest Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

#160
So I honestly don't get it. Is this a poor mans bug tracker? A possible re-invention of a bug tracker? (something wacky and different version of a bug tracker to see if it sticks?)

I have seen people mention project management a bunch, but the view really isn't about viewing what people are doing. In fact items that don't have people assigned to them still show up. The 10 foot view isn't even that good as they all squares and text. At a glance you can not tell what changed recently, what is late etc.

I had to really grimace when it showed the internal team that was using it and one of the stacks was "bugs" and it had the most number of items and was scrollable. ugg Does that scale to thousands of open bugs (or how about just 50)?

So either this is for all of those people who have never discovered the overview page of their bug tracker or maybe it is trying an experiment to see if the process of creating a bug tracker for a project is too difficult and here you just click "new project" and blam done and later on you export it to a real bug tracker... Maybe this is all just tricking users into using a bug tracker without them knowing?

Anyone get the same feeling?

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