Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

311–320 of 765 posts

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#311

Post by pbecotte »

oblio wrote: post #303
iagooar wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a recently public company Atlassian knows it'll need to grow beyond developers Why is that? Why does a company that is good at something NEED to expand beyond their area of expertise? Is is just me who sees this as American Capitalism™? Wouldn't it be better to try to make their products excellent and attract the many developers who are not using their suite? Why the always constant push to grow at any cost? I'm…

They're public, they need to make money for shareholders.

The set of shareholders who would prefer a company return profits / invest in existing products vs risky investments in non-core-competency areas is certainly not empty. If I wanted to invest in a dogfood company I can- I invest in Atlassian because they make developer tools.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#312

Post by kaushalmodi »

ylecuyer wrote: post #245
kaushalmodi wrote: post #227

I am really glad I never started using Trello for my task organization. It lacked the basic act of marking tasks as Done. I needed to manually drag the done tasks to a 'Done' board. On 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 bo…

For me the best todolist would be like a tree where you would be able to divide tasks into sub tasks and see every thing in one screen. I haven't been able to find such app so as for now I'm stuck with pen and paper

If you are open to emacs, check out org mode. It's awesome!

http://orgmode.org/features.html

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#313

Post by iamwil »

zuck9 wrote: post #43
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitBucket is owned by Atlassian and a competitor (the biggest?) to Github in the enterprise.

Imo, GitLab is a more worthy competitor than BitBucket.

Genuinely curious why you think it's true. Can you elaborate?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#314

Post by ukyrgf »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #172
wattt wrote: post #154

Earlier 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.

I was a Trello Gold user before they added the Enterprise tier. They seem to have completely forgotten Gold exists because all of their new features are Enterprise-only. I ended up just going back to a free plan.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#315

Post by andromeduck »

iagooar wrote: post #297
arielm wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree with the sentiment, but my gut says this acquisition isn't about Trello becoming a part of Atlassian but rather Atlassian trying to venture away from their set of dev tools. Why, you ask? As a recently public company Atlassian knows it'll need to grow beyond developers if they want to continue growing at a healthy rate, and Trello offers that exactly. I believe that's why they paid such a hefty pri…

> As a recently public company Atlassian knows it'll need to grow beyond developers Why is that? Why does a company that is good at something NEED to expand beyond their area of expertise? Is is just me who sees this as American Capitalism™? Wouldn't it be better to try to make their products excellent and attract the many developers who are not using their suite? Why the always constant push to grow at any cost? I'm…

Why do anything? Why should Intel care about mobile or Nvidia care about compute? Why should apple care about phones and why should Google care about cars and email? Why should Amazon care about cloud storage? Why should Microsoft care about Linux? Why should BMW care about electric cars? Why should Toyota care about hybrids?

Because you can as and because there are big rewards for doing it right and you're in a good position to that.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#317

Post by lstodd »

Good night sweet prince.

Jira and Confluence are epitomes of corporate red-tape molasses. Not only the process tends to get tangled to death in all the features everyone gets a bright idea to use, but even without them it wants just too much hardware.

A measly company of 30 ppl|3 years history and you're scratching your head to blood keeping the basic actions not taking more that 5 seconds while attempting to not pay 10x license cost for the hardware.

Too bad there aren't many alternatives.

And thank god I'm not using Trello. It's dead, people it's dead.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#318

Post by foxhop »

marcinkuzminski wrote: post #75
baldfat wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally all my own projects are on bitbucket. They were the first to provide free unlimited private repos and just has a great set of tools. So my personal preference is bitbucket over github.

Bitbucket server is written in Java while Bitbucket.com in Python. Those are two different products. That's why the Enterprise version supports only GIT. Check our RhodeCode for Enterprise SCM tool that supports Mercurial too.

Is RhodeCode still Pylons or have to migrated to Pyramid?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#319

Post by winterweather »

mhp wrote: post #293
SonOfLilit wrote: post #254

Open letter to Atlassian: Trello are an amazing team and an amazing product, and what makes the product so amazing is how domain-agnostic it is. They refuse at all costs to add any feature that helps use Trello in one specific way over others (e.g. lists = stages in task lifetime, cards = tasks; lists = assigned people, cards = tasks; lists = dates, cards = events, ...), and that made Trello equally useful as a Kanba…

Thank you for the kind words. I promise you Atlassian understands why Trello is so successful. You described Trello's core strength perfectly - and this one of the reasons they are committed to keeping it as a standalone service. (disclaimer: I'm the CEO of Trello)

I wonder what founders who have sold their companies for a significant amount end up doing in the days after. It would be really interesting to know what's going on in your head right now.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#320

Post by marcinkuzminski »

foxhop wrote: post #318
marcinkuzminski wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket server is written in Java while Bitbucket.com in Python. Those are two different products. That's why the Enterprise version supports only GIT. Check our RhodeCode for Enterprise SCM tool that supports Mercurial too.

Is RhodeCode still Pylons or have to migrated to Pyramid?

It's now based on pyramid 1.6
Post reply on HN