What a failure of an article. Paragraph after paragraph, and it doesn't say WTF Trello is.
How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
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Re: How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
#62It wouldn't of killed Jira, I've tried using trello as a replacement for Jira, it was sort of okish, but was kind of awkward. Then moved to Youtrack, and never looked back really, seemed to have a nice blend of trello and Jira
"Wouldn't of"?
What is that supposed to mean?
Re: How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
#63Major failing of the article: not saying WTF Trello IS.
Re: How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
#64It wouldn't of killed Jira, I've tried using trello as a replacement for Jira, it was sort of okish, but was kind of awkward. Then moved to Youtrack, and never looked back really, seemed to have a nice blend of trello and Jira
What does "wouldn't of" mean?
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#65"Its product had less features. It was simple. And it was fucking cheap. It was disruptive!" I feel this is the wrong way to describe Trello's success. i can build an app with a blank white space and charge $0 for it - that has less features and is very simple but it aint gonna sell for a million dollars.
It's also grammatically wrong.
"less" ≠ "fewer"
Re: How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
#66> Atlassian bought Trello for $425 million. Because Trello was on trajectory to kill Atlassian.
Please write complete sentences. Some people in the tech community seem to think that sentence fragments can replace clear, simple sentences.
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#67> Atlassian bought Trello for $425 million. Because Trello was on trajectory to kill Atlassian. Please write complete sentences. Some people in the tech community seem to think that sentence fragments can replace clear, simple sentences.
As this is a comment on a grammar point of the submission article, directed at the author itself, it would likely be better as a comment on the article, which Medium supports.
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#68so is Spolsky still blogging, or is he too busy counting his money?
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#69I really wish people would stop abusing the term "disruptive innovation" in ways it was never meant to be used. Making a product that's overly complicated, beyond what the market is demanding, is just bad management. It doesn't require any disruptive innovation to correct for this - making something that better matches your customers' needs is bread-and-butter business management, which every competent company is alr…
I think Amazon was able to sustain growth, being innovative and keep the current customers. They were able to predict the future, customer needs and at the same time not to screw old customers.
Amazon did sacrifice their customer base for growth. They integrated 3rd party sellers without demanding similar levels of quality. So, now their customers buy some grey market and a lot of flat out defective and counterfeit goods.
Buying a cheap USB charger can risk not only whatever your charging but also a house fire. This stuff is dangerous and quickly ruining Amazon's brand.
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#70The authors advice - >Make something the mainstream market doesn’t want now, but will want later. seems rather different from the thinking of the Trello team when they actually made Trello, as described by Joel Splosky: >After ten years in management I still never knew what anyone was supposed to be working on. Once in a while I would walk around asking everyone what they were doing, and half the time, my reaction wa…
That sounds more like marketing than actual history. We had four programmers and two summer interns working on it, is not what you do for an internal project at a small to mid sized company that's what you do when building something to sell.