Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M • Hacker News Board

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by knz » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:22 PM UTC

knocte wrote: post #142

aioprisan wrote: post #97

There's an open source clone of Trello that you can self-host: https://wekan.io/

Gitlab also recently made their issues-UI very Trelloish. And Gitlab is opensource too.

Github also added "Projects" (basically Trello with integration to your issues etc) in September 2016.

https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by jedahan » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

Can anyone point me to any acquisition that resulted in a net benefit to the customers of either company/product?

Or maybe I should not consider the users of a product the primary customers?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by creativityhurts » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

vecter wrote: post #330

deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

Can you put in concrete terms why you see this as a problem?

Atlassian will most likely "sunset" Trello or somehow include it in JIRA.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by rebelidealist » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

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…

Have you found that non-techy people are learning Markdown to use on trello?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by vecter » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:26 PM UTC

creativityhurts wrote: post #333

vecter wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you put in concrete terms why you see this as a problem?

Atlassian will most likely "sunset" Trello or somehow include it in JIRA.

That's an incredibly wild claim that they would sunset it after they just spent $425 million to buy it. Why would you think that?

Also, the might include it or leave it separate. They might even include it and still keep it a great product.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:27 PM UTC

vecter wrote: post #330

deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

Can you put in concrete terms why you see this as a problem?

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by brianbreslin » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:27 PM UTC

deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

JIRA interface blows. However you're looking at it from a very selfish standpoint. The Trello team has probably been working on this for years with the explicit goal of an exit, better to get bought by likeminded product people and make a big return than to be bought by Google and have the product killed entirely.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by gargarplex » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

yeasayer wrote: post #33

Why did Fog Creek approved this acquisition? With products like Stack Overflow, Trello and GoMix I thought they want to become a big player on the market of software development. Why sell our own assets?

Trello had super ambitious growth plans but didn't have the leadership team in place to achieve them. They built an incredibly valuable and wonderful product and Atlassian is an appropriate partner to take it to the next level.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by toddmorey » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

If they are smart, they'll pull a Facebook / Instagram and just leave it to continue working. Also, I'd say a large percentage of Trello users are outside of the classical Jira camp, so Atlassian should be really careful with the new baby. I believe they will be.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by SippinLean » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

edraferi wrote: post #300

chinhodado wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?

GitKraken looks promising, and introduces some new UI concepts (drag and drop merging, for example). It's still fairly young but could be a competitor.