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Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by precisioncoder »

galephico wrote: post #26
gecko wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's the post that convinced me to sign up for Trello! I was looking for it to post it, heh. I've been using it for... I guess about 6 months or so... maybe longer, in any case I seem to have the Blue Starfish of being in the first 500 000 users.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by atesti »

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.

There's one simple solution for that: A hosted version.

Too bad they don't provide that.

I wonder how many versions of FogBugz they will still release as hosted version before they only offer it hosted.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by dodger »

newobj wrote: post #21
swah wrote: post #15

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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.

Yes, I was trying to say that developing Trello is still really fun, even as it's getting bigger - we are starting to see some minor scaling challenges, but it's still a great time.

But we do use Trello to manage Trello, with a public dev board (https://trello.com/dev) and also internal boards to track things that are not yet public or that are too granular to expose externally.

Uservoice has a neat and somewhat complex setup: http://www.uservoice.com/blog/founders/trello-google-docs-pr...

And there are a bunch of good articles about how people are using Trello; searching for 'How I use Trello' turns up a lot of ideas. That being said, it's not going to fit everybody every time.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by nthitz »

That announcement page was buggy for men on Ubuntu Chrome. The page loaded and I saw the text letter but the smaller "title" card was overlayed on top of the letter but was mirrored left to right so you couldn't read it. Looks good on OSX chrome though!

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by chollida1 »

nthitz wrote: post #34

That announcement page was buggy for men on Ubuntu Chrome. The page loaded and I saw the text letter but the smaller "title" card was overlayed on top of the letter but was mirrored left to right so you couldn't read it. Looks good on OSX chrome though!

> That announcement page was buggy for men on Ubuntu Chrome.

What about women, did it work fine for them? :)

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by [deleted] »

citricsquid wrote: post #8

These sort of product celebrations (with users providing feedback on what the product means to them) are fantastic. As a user it's great to be able to see what a product means to others too and how they're using it. We had a similar page for a website we run and reading user feedback is so much fun, companies should do this sort of thing more often. Trello only reached 500,000 users in July of this year, that's some…

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Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

chollida1 wrote: post #35
nthitz wrote: post #34

That announcement page was buggy for men on Ubuntu Chrome. The page loaded and I saw the text letter but the smaller "title" card was overlayed on top of the letter but was mirrored left to right so you couldn't read it. Looks good on OSX chrome though!

> That announcement page was buggy for men on Ubuntu Chrome. What about women, did it work fine for them? :)

Yes, didn't you know - the XX Chrome works fine, but the XY Chrome is a bit buggy.

;-)

edit - smiley

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by egomaksab »

tesmar2 wrote: post #12

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

If you need more vertical stuff then check out Breeze (http://letsbreeze.com), it's Basecamp and Trello mashup. Plus it adds calendar, time tracking, budgeting and reporting.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by gecko »

joelthelion wrote: post #28

How many active ones?

I don't feel comfortable providing that number, but I can talk a bit about how the Trello team would answer it.

The concept of "active" isn't really a cut-and-dried thing. Do you count people who merely look at Trello, or do they have to do something? If they have to do something, then what is "something"? If I do one "something," is that enough, or do I have to do a couple? What if someone does that on my behalf (i.e., assigning me to or removing me from a board or card)? Are they active, am I active, or both?

It turns out the Trello team several different concepts of "active" they chart, but two they pay a lot of attention to are the number of users who have been active on Trello in the last 28 days (i.e., your pip has gone green), and the number of users who have performed at least four actions in the last 28 days (e.g., create a card, move a card, join a board, etc.). The awesome thing is that those numbers, while obviously less than the total member count, are nothing to sneeze at, and have been moving in proportion to the total member count throughout the time they've been measured. In other words, we have roughly twice as many active users today, by the above metrics, as we did at 500,000.

Sorry for the fuzziness, but I hope that at least gives you enough information to know it's not an empty statistic.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by jcastro »

dodger wrote: post #33
newobj wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he is saying he's a Trello developer.

Yes, I was trying to say that developing Trello is still really fun, even as it's getting bigger - we are starting to see some minor scaling challenges, but it's still a great time. But we do use Trello to manage Trello, with a public dev board ( https://trello.com/dev ) and also internal boards to track things that are not yet public or that are too granular to expose externally. Uservoice has a neat and somewhat co…

Would love to see what kind of dev platform/technology you use to build trello, specifically the scaling challenges.
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