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Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by lubos »

gecko wrote: post #39
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.…

what's wrong with providing that number? I think number of sign-ups is pretty much useless metric. even dead MySpace keeps increasing their sign-ups. It doesn't mean they are doing well.

To be honest, I would be really really interested how many active users Trello has. It would be great service to startup community to see what is conversion rate out there for bigger services like Trello.

Evernote is very public with their numbers, for example they claim 1/3 of total sign-ups being active users (users who logged into service in last month).

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

#52

Post by dodger »

kevingessner wrote: post #44
jcastro wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

. . . and here's an example of an issue with scaling it up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13770826/poorly-balanced-...

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

#53

Post by Nowyouknow »

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…

Took a look at the dev board as a way to "demo" the service without signing up. It seems... overly complicated? Maybe I really do just need to sign up.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

#54

Post by ebun »

MartinCron wrote: post #49
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?

The iOS app still requires an internet connection to sync anything.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

#56

Post by danabramov »

lubos wrote: post #51
gecko wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

what's wrong with providing that number? I think number of sign-ups is pretty much useless metric. even dead MySpace keeps increasing their sign-ups. It doesn't mean they are doing well. To be honest, I would be really really interested how many active users Trello has. It would be great service to startup community to see what is conversion rate out there for bigger services like Trello. Evernote is very public with…

Um, MySpace isn't dead. Not anymore, anyway. From what I've seen inside, it seems very promising.[0]

[0]: http://new.myspace.com

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by gecko »

lubos wrote: post #51
gecko wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

what's wrong with providing that number? I think number of sign-ups is pretty much useless metric. even dead MySpace keeps increasing their sign-ups. It doesn't mean they are doing well. To be honest, I would be really really interested how many active users Trello has. It would be great service to startup community to see what is conversion rate out there for bigger services like Trello. Evernote is very public with…

I work on Kiln, not Trello, and I don't feel comfortable ripping numbers off their dashboard and posting them onto HN. Simple as that. For all I know, they plan on announcing those numbers themselves soon, and I don't want to get in their way.
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