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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#192I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.
I've always thought that the "white boards and post notes" approach to agile work management is the ideal, it's just difficult to achieve on the 'mortal plane' with remote workers, bad handwriting, inability to query / archive etc. With that in mind I really like Trello because it feels very close to a digital version of that ideal. https://cardboardit.com/ is another product in that vein (I am unaffiliated with both products).
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
They also support Mercurial, which I personally find to be a way better scm tool than git. Not trying to start the classic hg vs git debate, just saying that it's great to have the option.
For some reason the enterprise version doesn't support mercurial, it's only git.
The reason is it's a completely unrelated product (previously known as "stash") that Atlassian pretends is somehow connected for branding reasons.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is shunning Bitbucket and why? Something happened that I missed?
It never comes up in the same breath as GitHub and GitLab. The major differentiator for Bitbucket that's the primary reason many people I know have Bitbucket accounts - that they offered free unlimited private repos when nobody else did - doesn't differentiate them anymore.
GitHub neither offers free private repos nor Mercurial support. For me and many others, Mercurial support is a big thing.
Bitbucket may still be less popular but I don't see it being shunned. That's what made me wonder. I wouldn't mind if you said that it was not given enough attention or even that it was being ignored (Although I'd still disagree). Maybe bad choice of words?
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#195This is a great acquistion for both parties. 1. Trello was smart in only taking $10M in VC funding [1]. This allows for a 40x return for it's investors. If Trello were like many other startups, they probably would have taken too much VC money and got themselves in a situation where the VC wouldn't sell unless it was $2B+. 2. Atlassian now has a product that is loved by many developers and business people alike. It wi…
>It will easily be interegrated into their existing stack and it complements their products very well. Will it? i use both Bitbucket and Jira at work, and i'm constantly finding myself wondering how two products from the same org can work so poorly together. They use their products to market their other products, but as far as actually integrating things into a seamless experience it doesn't seem like that's atlassia…
Trello, however, is designed for integrations. There are a ton of 3rd party integrations into Trello (some using the API, some Trello blessed that show up in the add ons list).
I suspect Atlassian could easily create some Jira/Botbucket addons that would make Jira a very useful choice for some Trello users for a more structured backend.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to add my 2 cents, I've worked with a dev team that used Trello for project coordination.
I'm a data scientist and I've been using it as an informal Kanban board because JIRA is way too complicated-looking for me want to even try to learn. Trello is about as dead-simple as it can get. There's already too much in my brain.
Bingo... that's the whole idea here. Small teams within larger companies and small companies can use Trello. When they grow up (or need to interact with the rest of the company) they use JIRA. In fact I would expect JIRA integrations that make it trivial to convert a Trello card to a JIRA task, probably with an option to automatically convert a checklist into subtasks.
This acquisition makes total sense; Trello and JIRA target mostly non-overlapping market segments and there are some easy low-hanging integration fruits to be picked. I'll also bet Trello becomes a deal-sweetener going forward. License JIRA and for +15% you also get Trello for your whole company.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a blog post very recently where they said they will double down on http://gomix.com now.
We're definitely investing in Gomix and we'll be revitalizing FogBugz this year, too — especially for folks who don't find Jira a satisfying or delightful way to work.
I can't figure out what Gomix is...
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#198I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.
Funny how much opinions can differ. I've used them both professionally and I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size.
The road to JIRA is paved with other project management software.
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#199Can we all start using Trello clones as the tutorial substance? So in case Atlassian screws it up, we have 100s of developers that know how to re-create it? :D
https://zenkit.com for example. Really like it so far (not trying to run from Trello, as I don't use it much anyway)
Thanks so much for the mention, we're glad you like it! For anyone looking for more info about Zenkit & where we're headed, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022663
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#200From http://blog.trello.com/trello-atlassian >> We will continue operating as a standalone service, and we will continue to integrate deeply with all of the tools available out there that help people collaborate (and you can look forward to some great integrations with HipChat, Confluence and JIRA).
So that's all well and good as far as it goes. But e.g. I currently rely on integration between Trello and Discord, which is in competition with HipChat - is there a risk of them killing that off?