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Introducing Trello Gold

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Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by GhotiFish »

quadrangle wrote: post #25
LeafStorm wrote: post #8

Meanwhile, I'm completely on board with this. Trello is used by a lot of people who make lots of money and want to throw some of it at Fog Creek because they're awesome, but it's also used by a lot of people who make not lots of money (in some cases zero money) and are organizing things like school projects and community service. (For example, I use Trello to organize all my homework, and a club I'm part of at school…

While your thinking here makes sense, it is better to honor truly Free as in freedom / Libre / Open Source software instead of funding proprietary software. FLOSS is also made by hard-working people and given away mostly and used by people who make money. But if you support FLOSS, your support goes to help everyone in the world, whereas if you fund proprietary software, you help advance something still under exclusiv…

It would be better if trello had servers I could download, but they don't. I like their system, but I don't trust them with life details like bank account numbers and such. (though trello really isn't for that, see last paragraph)

That said, being the heavy FLOSS zealot that I am, I don't have a problem with what trello is doing, per say. They're offering a service, and paying for a service is fine. Particularly a well executed service with good support.

The service they offer isn't just access to an application, though it's a shame they keep that application to themselves, they offer a hosted server and storage for everyone to access. There's nothing morally wrong with it.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by scott_karana »

jacalata wrote: post #19
chao- wrote: post #12

After finally being convinced that this isn't a joke, I had a horrible revelation: If Trello came with all of that by default, I would pay just as much to make it go away.

You'd pay money to get rid of some upload links? What, you have a second personality that would upload malicious stickers and emoji while you were sleeping?

Maybe he has team members who would try to use stickers as obnoxiously as possible?

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by ulisesrmzroche »

swanson wrote: post #21

Two points on why stickers are a sneaky-good feature IMO 1) Trello is used by some as a digital Kanban board. A bit thing is Kanban is the idea of a "blocker" - on physical boards this is usually a big, in-your-face, bright red sticky note. The point is that it jumps out at you and gets the team to swarm in and address the issue. Trello didn't really have this before (yes, you could use labels but it wasn't obvious).…

Those stickers are literally spaceships and puppies, how can they be used for any serious work? There is nothing more obvious than a label, a colored rectangle with text denoting its meaning, instead you get this -> ;)

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by mgrouchy »

Hrm. Scanning the comments here, this is not a joke. Weird. To me, wouldn't larger board uploads be a good enough up-sell to pay 5 bucks for? This sticker/background thing just seems strange.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by LeafStorm »

ulisesrmzroche wrote: post #34
swanson wrote: post #21

Two points on why stickers are a sneaky-good feature IMO 1) Trello is used by some as a digital Kanban board. A bit thing is Kanban is the idea of a "blocker" - on physical boards this is usually a big, in-your-face, bright red sticky note. The point is that it jumps out at you and gets the team to swarm in and address the issue. Trello didn't really have this before (yes, you could use labels but it wasn't obvious).…

Those stickers are literally spaceships and puppies, how can they be used for any serious work? There is nothing more obvious than a label, a colored rectangle with text denoting its meaning, instead you get this -> ;)

Besides the fact that some of these stickers are in fact useful for "serious work" (like "big red exclamation sign"), "serious work" isn't Trello's only target audience. And it's not like they took away the labels.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by thomasd »

My first reaction was just like everyone else's. I thought this is a joke. "After just about every chat app minus WhatsApp have added stickers, plus the recent inclusion of them in Path, now a productivity app?"

But it actually make a lot of sense. I think if you're already a Trello users, you're not the target market for this. Trello can be used in small families, among friends to help arrange things. Read: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3546-how-we-the-kims-use-base...

And this strikes right at the heart of it. It makes Trello less of a scary productivity app, and more of an everyday helper and organizer.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by rhizome »

davidjgraph wrote: post #2

Well, this is awkward. Take a tool where I'd define two of its key points as being clean and simple (to look at and use), then charge money to add two fairly random features that mess up the look.

I'm pretty sure you don't have to use any of the features.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by buro9 »

chao- wrote: post #12

After finally being convinced that this isn't a joke, I had a horrible revelation: If Trello came with all of that by default, I would pay just as much to make it go away.

Ah, the lesser known "Sneetches" business model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories

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