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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by dickbasedregex »

wsy wrote: post #347
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.

For sure they won't change Trello to become like JIRA, and there is a little hope the JIRA UI will become more like Trello. So IMHO nothing to worry about.

I can see the clunky from Jira seeping into Trello over time. Especially if some of the devs weren't part of a package deal.

I like Jira but I understand why others aren't fond of it. I'd argue it completely depends on how you configure/use Jira. Administering it is annoying regardless though.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by creativityland »

zippergz wrote: post #188
throwaway5752 wrote: post #104

Earlier 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.

I don't disagree with this, but very small teams (or sometimes just myself) is exactly what I use Trello for. We use it at home for shared to-do lists, idea boards (way better than Pinterest for us), etc. I realize this doesn't make them much money, but I hope they don't ruin that use case because I haven't found anything I like as well.

Have you tried https://taskcade.com? Good alternative for shared todo lists for my small team.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by bandrami »

vecter wrote: post #335
creativityhurts wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by creativityland »

mydpy wrote: post #368

I kinda see Jira and Trello as separate target markets. Jira = Enterprise (for me) and Trello = Small-to-mid-sized companies and personal use. My company uses Jira (correctly) and it is great - for software. I keep all of my personal lists in Trello. Also - VersionOne <<<<<<<<< Jira

Similar here. I don't see Trello and Jira overlapping for the majority of users. For simple tasks, there are still alternatives like wunderlist and taskcade.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by whatever_dude »

agentgt wrote: post #370

I have a hard time understanding how Trello is worth that much money. Does it really cost 1/2 billion to get 19 million users and a Trello like app built? Is the Trello team really worth that much? Was Trello that threatening to Atlassian? There are a lot of there other successful collaboration SaaS out there as well (e.g. Asana). This is not like social/content services where there can only be one (or very few e.g.…

Trello has a lot of vendor-specific integration that is not immediately visible to most users. Their Salesforce integration is huge in terms of user numbers, but it's not something the vast majority of HN users care about, or have even seen.

I feel like Trello's focus has been on certain segments, not on the general public. The product, in many ways, has been heavily focused and as simple as possible. It kind of infuriates me I have like 4 chrome extensions installed that augments Trello with very basic features... but I kind of understand their mentality.

Kind of the opposite of most Atlassian's products. So this is an... interesting development.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by jupp0r »

RUG3Y wrote: post #358
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.

I don't blame Trello for selling but I'm not looking forward to whatever Atlassian could do to the product. I use Atlassian at work and I dislike their software, though it's not all bad.

Just out of geniune curiosity: what's not bad?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by creativityland »

xenadu02 wrote: post #196
nerdponx wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 J…

Very well said, the larger the company, the less flexibility it has in choosing the right software for the entire company. Smaller teams can move quicker, faster, and tend to find their own solutions within larger corporations.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by creativityland »

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

Have you tried https://taskcade.com ?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by latj »

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.

What do you like instead of Jira?

I dont like Jira either but I do like bitbucket. I started using it back in the day because besides public hosting they also gave me free unlimited private repos and found it does everything I need.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

mhp wrote: post #366
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.

The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

To be fair I've been a part of 3 acquisitions and have seen this story play out tens of times with beloved software. It always starts out this way. "The original folks are going to run it, not the new company!" "Things will stay the same" yadda yadda yadda.

1-3 years down the road, it'll be a different story. It'll be unlikely that the executive team will stick around past whatever agreement they signed with Atlassian.

I'm skeptical. I've yet to see this work out with a company I worked at or followed (yes yes I know, Instagram but I never followed them so I wouldn't know how or if they've changed). I'm sure it can and has happened. But you have an uphill battle :)

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