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Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by JPKab »

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?

Less than 2 years ago, I bought a "cutting edge" Android smartpone, called the Samsung Infuse. Almost two years later, Samsung has yet to release a single update to Gingerbread (from Froyo) over the cell network. A few months ago, they were nice enough to put out a buggy Gingerbreak update to the device, but it was hosted on their website, required me to install software on my computer just to load it, and it then failed (repeatedly) to install on my phone. The Trello app won't work on Froyo, so, no, thanks to the fact that Samsung doesn't give a shit about its customers, I don't have Trello on my phone. I just want to add that the Samsung Infuse, at the time of purchase, was a top of the line phone in the store. Same (subsidized) price as an iPhone. Within 6 months of purchase, it was completely abandoned by Samsung. HTC will be getting my business for the next purchase.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by onetwothreefour »

dclaysmith wrote: post #25
c1u wrote: post #5

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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.

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…

Haha, "too big to fail".

Every company can fail tomorrow. Free or paid.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by JPKab »

nlavezzo wrote: post #67
CodeCube wrote: post #64

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Well yeah, but if you've got an iPhone, chances are you have a cell connection. If he can't access the internet, even over the cell network, I'd be curious to know what kind of environment he's working in.

IE8 only, no internet / cell access at work... I'm from the DC area and all of my friends that have these issues work for "the government".

You nailed it brother. I'm not a government employee, but for the time being, I'm forced to work in their facility. I do have my own Macbook here which I use for all my scripting/data analysis/etc, but I have to leave the building to get to WiFi. It is infuriating that these idiots have been fooled into thinking that they are more secure by using IE8 over.... anything else.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by IsaacL »

JPKab wrote: post #91
MartinCron wrote: post #49

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

Less than 2 years ago, I bought a "cutting edge" Android smartpone, called the Samsung Infuse. Almost two years later, Samsung has yet to release a single update to Gingerbread (from Froyo) over the cell network. A few months ago, they were nice enough to put out a buggy Gingerbreak update to the device, but it was hosted on their website, required me to install software on my computer just to load it, and it then fa…

Heh, I have the same problem with my Galaxy S1... Count yourself lucky, I'm still stuck on Eclair!

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by JPKab »

evilduck wrote: post #81
MartinCron wrote: post #78

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I really look forward to a time where "the government" doesn't mean IE8 only. I've been bit by this myself, at the state level.

"The government" doesn't mean that. My wife works for the DOI and their entire bureau uses Chrome and their government email and other services are managed through Google Apps, her cubical contains a typical locked-down Windows PC and a Red Hat workstation, the workstation runs Chrome and FF which are only as behind the curve as far as the stable releases are. I knew some guys who worked for NOAA as contractors who s…

The agencies you mentioned are less than a hundredth the size of the agencies in the US Gov which are using IE8. The smaller agencies have the luck of getting to be forward thinking. The rest are crushed down by bureaucratic inertia and Microsoft development cultures (with some of the J2EE thrown in too). The IE8 stuff is mainly because they have built so many shitty .NET apps that won't work properly without IE.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by edanm »

I've looked at Trello several times, and it's always seemed like a great app to work with... but I never got around to actually using it.

So, open question time: How do all you HN'ers use Trello? What kind of things do you manage with it? Bonus for telling us what you used before, and how Trello makes it easier. Super-duper bonus for anything to do with running software projects, and running businesses.

Thanks!

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by basicallydan »

edanm wrote: post #97

I've looked at Trello several times, and it's always seemed like a great app to work with... but I never got around to actually using it. So, open question time: How do all you HN'ers use Trello? What kind of things do you manage with it? Bonus for telling us what you used before, and how Trello makes it easier. Super-duper bonus for anything to do with running software projects, and running businesses. Thanks!

I used Mingle before in a very large project. It was good enough, but soon I moved to a smaller project (4-7 people at any one time) and switching to Trello has proved to be a real asset.

We create cards (story cards, basically) for each user experience and move them to different columns (Backlog, In Progress, Done) and then archive columns at the end of each Iteration.

We also have Known Issues columns and we maintain a large amount of our discussions about implementation on cards.

Also as the developer on the project, I find it useful to put the individual tasks of each user experience on the corresponding cards, which I can split into lists (such as 'API Tasks' and 'UI Tasks').

It's very flexible, and I've found it to work very well with the way I intuitively do things.

I also use it on a small side project that I do with a colleague of mine. We love it.

Everyone with whom I work on Trello loves it and we avidly follow its development.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Post by davidbanham »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #37
chollida1 wrote: post #35

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> 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

Missed opportunity for "Chrome-o-some". Disappointing.
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