Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M • Hacker News Board

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by IanCal » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:17 PM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #7

Anyone know a good simple trello competitor that I can import my trello boards to really quick.

I've heard wekan mentioned a lot (open source alternative).

Here's the migration docs: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Migrating-from-Trello

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by katpas » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:18 PM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #7

Anyone know a good simple trello competitor that I can import my trello boards to really quick.

I've been using the Github Project board functionality which looks a lot like Trello. I doubt there's an integration where you'd be able to port one to the other though.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by dovdovdov » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:19 PM UTC

hashkb wrote: post #8

So... it's going to stop being free and start sucking?

or get shut down...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by bluedino » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:19 PM UTC

hashkb wrote: post #8

So... it's going to stop being free and start sucking?

>> If you currently use Trello as either a free or paid user, you can rest assured that we will continue to offer Trello as a standalone service.

They don't say if it will stay free or not.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by hashkb » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #3

Not sure how JIRA will marry Trello. They are different in their user base. I use both but for very different cases.

I'd say the user base is as or more important than the product, from Atlassians POV. If they are able to convert a few hundred thousand JIRA accounts from this, they could turn Trello off and it'd be a win.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by nodesocket » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

"In July 2014, Trello spins off from Fog Creek and becomes Trello, Inc. naming Fog Creek co-founder Michael Pryor as its CEO. The company raises $10.3 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital and Index Ventures."

Spark Calital and Index Ventures must have gotten a nice huge return, Trello only raised $10 million.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by hashkb » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #6

This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here. Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better. Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello in…

What does this have to do with h GitHub?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by andrewbarba » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #7

Anyone know a good simple trello competitor that I can import my trello boards to really quick.

I'm a big fan of Clubhouse, and looks like someone wrote a tool to do exactly what you want: https://clubhouse.io/developers

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by rkrzr » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

Trello has apparently about 19 million users. And I would bet that the majority of them are not the typical target audience of Atlassian products (i.e. software development teams).

So I wonder if they are mostly aquiring the user base here in order to expand their potential market?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by tajen » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #3

Not sure how JIRA will marry Trello. They are different in their user base. I use both but for very different cases.

Yes – Just like Bitbucket Issues didn't marry JIRA. One core difference between Trello and JIRA Agile is, in Trello you can't hide tickets that you don't want right now in the sprint – In JIRA Agile, you only put a few issues in the sprint so the board looks clean.

Anyway. Not sure why some people want to move away from Trello now. Is it that they don't want an identity connection between JIRA and Trello (SSO or similar)?