Trello celebrates One Million Users • Hacker News Board

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by bmccormack » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

pgrote wrote: post #3

Great service. I hope they start charging for the service soon.

While Fog Creek doesn't announce features and services prior to shipping, we do keep a fairly public account of what we're working on at http://trello.com/dev. Note the cards labeled "Trello Power-ups" in green.

Specifically, check out https://trello.com/card/i-want-early-access-to-these-paid-fe....

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by tesmar2 » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

Great Service. Recently, however, we moved to basecamp because of the calendaring features.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by bane » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

Ha! It's funny since I literally just finally signed up this past week.

I saw it when it first came out and was blown away but didn't have time to fit it into my routine until recently. Really wonderful elegant software, I've gotten a few other people to convert to it too just in the past couple days.

I have boards for misc tasks, various engineering tasks, shopping, development, sales pipelines etc. It's fantastic.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by qznc » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

c1u wrote: post #5

xxpor wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

I love Trello, but cannot commit to using it more for business until I have an expectation of service, which comes from paying for it. They're awesome, but they owe me nothing, and that's just too risky.

This argument sounds reasonable. I wonder if it is true though. Businesses that are paid for their services can vanish as well. The question is, if the probability is really lower for paid services compared to free services.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by swah » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:29 PM UTC

dodger wrote: post #2

. . . and is still super, super fun to work on.

I could never adapt. I didn't like the way one deals with older items.

Care to tell us how you use it?

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by hamidpalo » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:31 PM UTC

swohns wrote: post #9

xxpor wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

My major concern here is the speed of the service, maybe by bringing in some cash they will feel more accountable to their users for speed.

We don't hear many complaints about speed. What kind of speed issues are you experiencing?

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by james-singh » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:31 PM UTC

Congrats to Trello! It's one service/solution I love dearly.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by gecko » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

c1u wrote: post #5

xxpor wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

I love Trello, but cannot commit to using it more for business until I have an expectation of service, which comes from paying for it. They're awesome, but they owe me nothing, and that's just too risky.

You know, I've had a fair number of services that I'm paying for just vanish out from under me, too (e.g., eWorld, iTools, Grove.io, the original Siri). Sometimes the wind-down is longer, sometime it isn't. And, conversely, some things I don't pay for have been around for a very, very long time (Freenode, Gmail, my old Fidonet BBS, etc.). Maybe paid sticks around longer on average, but I think paid-v.-free is a bad litmus test.

I think there's a much better one: how easy it is to take your data and go home. With Trello, the answer is "exceedingly easy." On any board, just go to "Options" -> "Share, Print, Export..." and dump the entire board to JSON. From there, it should be easy to move your data onto Remember the Milk, Pinterest, org-mode, or whatever's appropriate for you. You can even automate grabbing that JSON on a daily basis via the API, if you're so inclined.

So while I understand your argument, your actual risk here is very, very low.

As another Creeker pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the Trello team has some stuff coming out in the future that you may find appealing, if you would feel better contractually paying for stuff. But in terms of risk, I think that it can be very low, today, whether you pay or not.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by warrentr » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

They don't check for uniqueness of email address when registering via google, so perhaps this claim is dubious :)

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by gecko » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

tesmar2 wrote: post #12

Great Service. Recently, however, we moved to basecamp because of the calendaring features.

One thing I think people don't appreciate is that Trello isn't really competing with Basecamp/Jira/FogBugz. Those tools are all really well designed for fine-grained project development. Trello is beautifully designed for a much higher-level view of a project. It would be entirely sane to keep track of the general status of your project, while still keeping track of its minutia in something like Basecamp. That's exactly what the Kiln team does: a single card may stand in for all of Kiln HyperSync, even though dozens of FogBugz cases, with due dates and escalation states, may sit behind it. This isn't a failing of either tool; just an acknowledgment they fit into different niches.