Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M • Hacker News Board

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by allover » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:44 PM UTC

i386 wrote: post #522

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Bamboo (cloud) is end-of-lifed so you might want to reconsider that purchase! (Pipelines is their new alternative). (Yes you could buy the Bamboo self-hosted thing, which they're still supporting, but it's clear where their efforts are going at this point). EDIT: Also, I should add some opinion here. We used to use Bamboo for 2+ years and ditched it (for Jenkins). Bamboo has a horrible UI, and everything basically ha…

I hope you don't think our (Jenkins) UI is ugly now ;) We've recently launched the Jenkins Blue Ocean project that aims to modernize the developer experience and UI https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/

Hehe, thanks for replying. We're pretty hyped about Blue Ocean, and have it installed already, just eagerly awaiting for it to have all the functionality of the Jenkins of old, best of luck to you with it :)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by petervandijck » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:45 PM UTC

bduerst wrote: post #306

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I love their response to open issues like: we'd like to be able to delete pull requests. Response: what a silly notion, no Or another one I found recently: we'd like to comment on code that isn't within 10 lines of a changed file. You know, because one line change in file a can impact stuff elsewhere. Or even in another project but the chances of that happening are more slim than a tachyon hitting an atom as it passe…

>atlassian products are 80% of the way there, but the final 20% polish never seems to arrive This was kind of my synopsis when I looked at implementing them back in 2009. My take was that they built out 80% of the platform and then expected the customers/users to build out the extra 20% for each other.

They're much better now than 7 years ago, try them again.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by xiaoma » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:46 PM UTC

Looks like too many customers decided they JUST MIGHT HAVE TO GO OVER TO THE AUSTRALIANS! So many that "the Australians" bought the team. This is poetic and this is why I'm glad blogs often stick around.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/07/20/fruity-treats-cust...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by nythrowaway » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:50 PM UTC

congrats! Anyone know how much the payoff for a standard dev at trello is in a deal like this?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by SBCRec » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:50 PM UTC

I love Trello!

At one of my internships (Elec Engineering) with a mining company they used Trello to organize the majority of their work.

After that experience I started using Trello to organize all my daily stuff.

I had it to organise my book reading list, book purchase list, Quarterly and Yearly goals, Job application status, plan and execute on my thesis, assignments and side projects.

I can't believe how much value it has provided me for free!

It's good to see them get rewarded with a nice buyout.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:51 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.

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by i386 » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:51 PM UTC

allover wrote: post #541

i386 wrote: post #522

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I hope you don't think our (Jenkins) UI is ugly now ;) We've recently launched the Jenkins Blue Ocean project that aims to modernize the developer experience and UI https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/

Hehe, thanks for replying. We're pretty hyped about Blue Ocean, and have it installed already, just eagerly awaiting for it to have all the functionality of the Jenkins of old, best of luck to you with it :)

No worries! Ahh what are you missing? drop be a line at jdumay@cloudbees.com

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by hyperpallium » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:52 PM UTC

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390

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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 Atlassia…

Atlassian acquired bitbucket, and seems to be going ok.

Though it's not a profit centre for them, so may be different.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:56 PM UTC

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)

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by nocman » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:59 PM UTC

grey-area wrote: post #528

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390

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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 Atlassia…

Another example is slicehost: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2974-the-slicehost-story http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229402851/rackspace-clarifies-... It always starts with good intentions and fine words about nothing changing and ends with an incredible journey.

Amen to that. I used slicehost for years and was totally happy with them. Then Rackspace bought them and killed them off.

Needless to say, Rackspace did NOT get me as a customer after that. I switched to another provider.