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Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

travisp wrote: post #3

Blimp looks interesting, but I didn't know what it was until I clicked around, and I'm still not clear on the major differences between it and Trello. May I politely suggest that not everyone reading this post will know what Blimp is and may not take the effort to click around and read? You'd be doing yourself a favor by either: saying what Blimp is somewhere on that page, or providing a brief list of reasons I might…

From what I could immediately gather, it does a better job at showing task to subtask relationships, makes it easier to delegate, and uses pretty fonts.

Trello has an extra level of nesting (Board -> List -> Card -> Checklist), shows more structure without scrolling, and tends to break a lot.

Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Post by flexterra »

moot wrote: post #9

>Made by the Blimp crew in San Juan, Puerto Rico This made me happy. Cool to see a Puerto Rican startup on the front page of HN. Are there other notable PR startups that I might not know about?

Puerto Rico has a growing startup community. Check out this article when you can.

http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/01/08/startups-of-puerto-rico-...

Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

#13

Post by djmollusk »

moot wrote: post #9

>Made by the Blimp crew in San Juan, Puerto Rico This made me happy. Cool to see a Puerto Rican startup on the front page of HN. Are there other notable PR startups that I might not know about?

I am happy to see that too. Unfortunately a common trend in Puerto Rico is that it's best and brightest move to the states and only come home for navidad/three kings.

Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Post by flexterra »

c16 wrote: post #14

When trying to import I get: request expired

We are working on it. Seems to be an issue with our api keys but we can't confirm because the folks at Trello support haven't responded yet.

I suspect that response is going to take a while.

Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Post by flexterra »

james33 wrote: post #15

Their site looks gorgeous, but I wish there was a video walkthrough or at least some full screenshots so I could see what the app itself looks like and how it functions.

Here you have the latests screencasts, they are a few weeks old but good enough. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1NjAf7U2LsE52GsPwXxD...

Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Post by pc86 »

flexterra wrote: post #10
travisp wrote: post #3

Blimp looks interesting, but I didn't know what it was until I clicked around, and I'm still not clear on the major differences between it and Trello. May I politely suggest that not everyone reading this post will know what Blimp is and may not take the effort to click around and read? You'd be doing yourself a favor by either: saying what Blimp is somewhere on that page, or providing a brief list of reasons I might…

Just updated the blog post with an answer to "Why move from Trello to Blimp?" to summarize: Blimp understands the process your team is using so it can extract meaningful data from it. Head back to the blog post to read all of it.

This has been said numerous times on HN and elsewhere, but I would love to see what your pricing structure is outside of "starts at $12/month." I'm not going to give you my information just to see a pricing chart.

Re: Moving from Trello to Blimp

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Post by tommi »

flexterra wrote: post #10
travisp wrote: post #3

Blimp looks interesting, but I didn't know what it was until I clicked around, and I'm still not clear on the major differences between it and Trello. May I politely suggest that not everyone reading this post will know what Blimp is and may not take the effort to click around and read? You'd be doing yourself a favor by either: saying what Blimp is somewhere on that page, or providing a brief list of reasons I might…

Just updated the blog post with an answer to "Why move from Trello to Blimp?" to summarize: Blimp understands the process your team is using so it can extract meaningful data from it. Head back to the blog post to read all of it.

When you have a fixed process then extracting data out of it does not enable you to improve the process. It does enable you to improve other things but it might be adapting to the process given for you.
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