I'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.
Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
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#222I'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.
They used to have a blurb on their pricing page that said Trello will always have a free option. It's curiously not there anymore: https://trello.com/pricing
Edit: I guess you mean these three blurbs? http://web.archive.org/web/20160505012250/https://trello.com...
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#223Congrats to Trello and Fog Creek Software! I've moved on to Zenhub instead of Trello, but it's indeed a really nice product that can be used by many, and not just people in software development
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size. If anyone here has ever been confused by the expression "damning with faint praise", I hope this is an illustrative example.
The "least-worst option" means it's not good, but all the alternatives are terrible. That's not damning.
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
They will JIRA-fy it or kill it. I use JIRA and pay for it, it is hell on earth for teams of 2-5. We looked into switching to trello to reduce overhead but... It cost more for less features. So we stayed with JIRA. They will kill trello so everyone is stuck with JIRA. Someone please make a trello clone with reasonable pricing, now!
Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.
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#227On that note, my hunt for good task organization app led me to Todoist! It's awesome! It has great web and Android apps and great API which I intend to hack at some point to create an emacs interface for it.
So glad that Todoist wasn't bought by Atlassian. My biggest gripe with Atlassian is that it natively doesn't support Markdown in Jira. It uses its funky own markup that's really bad.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.
$10/user/mo for Trello seems pretty expensive to me. It's a very basic product.
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#230But, what was the $10mil of VC money used for?
Has Trello evolved since taking the money (features)?
Over $300mil in cash for kanban cards? Nice exit.