Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M • Hacker News Board

Co-founder of Trello Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post about today's news. Worth reading if you're interested in the thinking behind the deal: http://indexventures.com/news-room/news/trello-raises-10m-se...

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Post by andr3a » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:43 PM UTC

weavie wrote: post #6

It's incredible how such a simple idea could become so big. I'm sat here trying to think up some grand scheme that's going to make me my millions. Its a great lesson that really all I need is a simple idea. The key is in the execution. Take that simple idea and develop (and market) it to perfection.

it's not a simple idea, it's a deep idea refined over decades and implemented simply. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Post by matthewmacleod » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:43 PM UTC

richardwigley wrote: post #2

I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?

It works really well for smaller projects, but in my experience quickly falls apart when more extensive planning and collaboration is required. YMMV of course.

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:44 PM UTC

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Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Post by talldan » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:45 PM UTC

richardwigley wrote: post #2

I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?

We use it as our (kanban style) task board.

We're a pretty small team, I wouldn't be sure how well Trello scales to larger teams.

It has some nice features though. It's integrated with our slack chat, and it's very easy for users to pick up.

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Post by GFischer » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:45 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #5

richardwigley wrote: post #2

I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?

I've used it when needed (i.e. someone picks that to get started), but honestly Pivotal Tracker is the same thing with more features and even crusty old JIRA has an agile board view option it nowadays where you can drag card versions of the JIRAs around. So Trello is kind of an also-ran that doesn't compare well with the current leader or the industry standard.

However, it's free and simple, and JIRA and Pivotal Tracker are both not free (and not as simple).

Re: Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

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Post by Brajeshwar » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:45 PM UTC

Congratulations to Trello. I user Trello for almost everything, from planning what to buy/not-to-buy, travel planning, to choosing a school for my daughter.