. . . 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?
I think he is saying he's a Trello developer.
Trello celebrates One Million Users
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#22I have, in the past 3 months, been forced to work in a location where the only internet access is on machines with IE8 on them (and no ability to install Chrome Frame). The loss of Trello has absolutely FUCKING sucked. I'm sorry for the profanity, but it is an abysmally awful process to have to STOP using Trello and go back to emailing spreadsheets back and forth or shudder MS Project.
I think this huge drop in my productivity is a testament to just how awesome Trello is.
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#23They don't check for uniqueness of email address when registering via google, so perhaps this claim is dubious :)
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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 l…
On the other hand, you have a better argument when the service goes down temporarily. They're more likely to respond quickly if they have paying customers.
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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.
I think there is little risk of Trello being discontinued/FogCreek going out of business. They do a lot of hiring and have had a pretty vocal customer segment pleading for them to charge for it. I don't really understand why they haven't tho I'm sure Joel Spolsky has a plan.
Disclaimer: I wish he was charging--I have a similar project I've been working on over nights and weekends. It is very hard to compete with free and difficult to position/market a product you have created to appeal to everyone. That being said--I love working on my project so it'll be around for a long time... Link: http://www.thetaboard.com
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#26Great 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 exac…
Joel himselft talked about the difference between vertical and horizontal products, applied to Trello : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 l…
On the other hand, you have a better argument when the service goes down temporarily. They're more likely to respond quickly if they have paying customers.
That may be fair. In this particular case, I can tell you we respond to Trello outages the same we'd respond to FogBugz or Kiln outages, so your concern should be minimal.
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#28How many active ones?
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On the other hand, you have a better argument when the service goes down temporarily. They're more likely to respond quickly if they have paying customers.
That may be fair. In this particular case, I can tell you we respond to Trello outages the same we'd respond to FogBugz or Kiln outages, so your concern should be minimal.
Ah, didn't realize you were a Fog Creek employee yourself :)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 l…
On the other hand, you have a better argument when the service goes down temporarily. They're more likely to respond quickly if they have paying customers.
http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/diesel-bucket-brigade-mai...
I came in to work and was shocked that Trello was offline since I use it as my todo list in work. Then I read the stories as to why and was again shocked when it was only offline for a day or so. Fog Creek are awesome.