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Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by eliben » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

prs wrote: post #10

pgrote wrote: post #3

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

Charging for premium features - Sure. But the basic version will remain free according to the Trello Guide. Free... for how long? Trello is free forever. We may add pay-only features in the future, but everything that's free today will be free tomorrow and forever. Also, we'll not make a for-pay feature that forces you to compromise on privacy, security, or portability. Those are built-in. [...] Trello is free. https…

Forever is such a strong word... What if Fogcreek goes bust one day? I would actually prefer companies to charge money for such services, it gives greater confidence in them in the long run. Even a measly $10/year per user is a great business model if you have 1M users.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by monty_singh » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:50 PM UTC

I started using Trello about 2.5 months ago and its really impacted the way I do almost everything for the better. It has made organizing a plan of action for my to-do's and side projects so much easier that I feel like a blow through my tasks now.

Congratulations and good luck on your way to 2 million users!

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by j45 » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

I still wish for the deeper Fogbugz integration with Trello that has been coming up for a while.

I reasonably use it, would love to use it more, it's Wonderful. :)

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by kevingessner » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

jcastro wrote: post #40

dodger wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The team wrote a blog post describing their tech stack last year: http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

The biggest change since then is that Trello now runs on AWS, rather than colocated servers in NYC. But the software is the same.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by richardofyork » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

I wonder how much, it at all, has Trello's success impacted sales of 37 Signals' Basecamp. We cancelled our Basecamp account and switched to Trello after we realized Trello was ideal for our project management needs.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by tnorthcutt » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

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!

Same here, but on OSX Chrome.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by fady » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

i love trello.. i use it for everything and really love what fogcreek has done with it. i do have one suggestion: please make you mobile app faster. the UI, in terms of moving cards to different list is really hard to use and lags a lot. i suggest finding a better solution for that feature, instead of trying to replicate the desktop experience. i rarely use the mobile app for this reason.

keep up the good work

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by tnorthcutt » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

eliben wrote: post #41

prs wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Charging for premium features - Sure. But the basic version will remain free according to the Trello Guide. Free... for how long? Trello is free forever. We may add pay-only features in the future, but everything that's free today will be free tomorrow and forever. Also, we'll not make a for-pay feature that forces you to compromise on privacy, security, or portability. Those are built-in. [...] Trello is free. https…

Forever is such a strong word... What if Fogcreek goes bust one day? I would actually prefer companies to charge money for such services, it gives greater confidence in them in the long run. Even a measly $10/year per user is a great business model if you have 1M users.

I agree with you, although to be fair, they likely wouldn't have 1M users if they charged.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by MartinCron » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

JPKab wrote: post #22

I 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 pr…

Have you considered the Trello apps for smartphones and tablets as an alternative?

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by gryphonic » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

This looks like a great service that i didn't know about before. Definitely going to be getting one more user. I wish we could use something like this at work.

Since most of this is rather new to me, are there any other great organizational/ basic life services out there? I would be curious to see what other people are using.