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Introducing Trello Gold

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Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by dpritchett »

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…

Fog Creek has a github repo at least: https://github.com/fogcreek

I'm totally OK with paying companies to build useful proprietary stuff when they're spinning out a few open source artifacts now and then.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by ulisesrmzroche »

LeafStorm wrote: post #37
ulisesrmzroche wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not a fact, I happen to find that exclamation sign too silly. I used Trello for keeping track of chores around the house, and I think more than 5 or 6 labels (what's so hard about adding more fields?) would be far more useful than these tacky emoji.

I'm just not into Trello Gold, I hate gaudy things.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by spolsky »

thomasd wrote: post #38

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://3…

[trello co-creator, here]

Definitely not a joke :)

But also not something you need to buy. We're working very hard to make sure everybody understands that Trello is free and will always be free.

With that, we have to make money to support the development and servers. Our ultimate goal is that the 1% of people who get the most value out of Trello will pay us, and that will collectively bring in enough money to pay for the whole operation.

The people getting the most value out of Trello are organizations, and super-fans.

The organizations pay us by buying Trello Business Class (https://trello.com/business-class), which gets them advanced administrative features that organizations like to have.

The super-fans are people who really just want a way of showing their love for Trello and supporting the company, and that's who Trello Gold is for. They show us some love by either (a) paying us or (b) referring friends to Trello, and in exchange we give them some cute stickers and board backgrounds and a little crown thing on your avatar so they can show all their friends how cool they are.

We actually thought of calling it "Trello Fan Club."

Either way, the long term goal remains to keep Trello 100% free, but still have a way where the 1% of people who get the most value out of it can pay us. For those 1% it's an easy sell. There are people running their businesses on Trello and they've told us that if we sold a brown paper bag called Trello Brown Paper Bag they would buy it, just to support the software they love and make sure it has a future.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by randomhunt »

dpcan wrote: post #28
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…

I upgraded the instant I saw it for 2 reasons: 1) I've been wanting a way to PAY for this service for a long time now so I know it's there year after year. I'm super happy to give them $5 per month. 2) I wanted pretty backgrounds. I am what I am.

"I am what I am"

If you know what/who you are then that puts you way ahead of most people...

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by freyr »

programminggeek wrote: post #20

If Trello's user base is average people using iphone and want a fun todo list, this is brilliant. Nerds probably won't get it, but there is a reason that Geocities, Myspace, etc... were terribly popular - making ridiculous things that express your personality is fun for a lot of people.

Your examples would probably be more effective if you chose companies that didn't die and fall off the map.

In fact, it's been suggested that Facebook's clean and simple design gave the site an edge over Myspace's garish and annoying clutter.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by nilkn »

I think people are forgetting there's already a business class option for organizations that need more serious power usage. This isn't so odd when you take that into account. This seems like it's aimed at individual users or people who specifically want to have more fun in Trello but not necessarily more power.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by avenger123 »

yogo wrote: post #29
avenger123 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone likes to bring out their individuality. I can definitely see a lot of users happily uploading personal pictures for board backgrounds.

Like MySpace? I think people should let their tools look the way the want it to, but it always goes downhill from there. It's one of those things where it's better to just keep it simple and standard looking.

If you want to keep it simple and standard looking, go ahead. I don't see that changing in any way.

A classic use case of the new feature for business users, would be using different board colors to easily differentiate between boards.

Just this would be a nice usability win.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by awjr »

Honestly they appear to have found a nice way for me to personally give them money and get something in return. I don't have to use the features but the fact I can give them a little bit of money for a product that has had a massive impact on my day to day work and a small impact on my home life (mainly shopping lists) is cool.

Great great great product.

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