Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M • Hacker News Board

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Kiro » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:51 PM UTC

daxelrod wrote: post #67

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?

Fog Creek's model tends to involve spinning off their runaway hits into separate companies. They've done this with StackOverflow and Trello. Trello has been an independent company since 2014. (Although I'm not sure what kind of ownership position Fog Creek had).

Why would Fog Creek give away any ownership?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by rb808 » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #6

This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here. Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better. Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello in…

It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share.

edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Toenex » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

msimpson wrote: post #70

Communitivity wrote: post #4

This saddens me, and I suspect the future Trello will be a much different animal from what it is today. It could be better, but my gut says not.

I'm optimistic in that there may finally be a self-hosted version of Trello.

Whilst not as well produced as Trello, https://kanboard.net/ is self hostable.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by thirdsun » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:54 PM UTC

konart wrote: post #74

kevando wrote: post #47

Can we all start using Trello clones as the tutorial substance? So in case Atlassian screws it up, we have 100s of developers that know how to re-create it? :D

https://zenkit.com for example. Really like it so far (not trying to run from Trello, as I don't use it much anyway)

Never heard of it, but this actually looks as if it could replace Trello and Airtable, two products I really like, and then some. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by taytus » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:55 PM UTC

I like Trello, I use it often. $450M... for a todo list. Yes, I use it. Yes, I think is useful. Yes, I think this valuation is absolutely crazy.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by pansartaxen » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #7

Anyone know a good simple trello competitor that I can import my trello boards to really quick.

www.favro.com

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by LoSboccacc » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:57 PM UTC

joemaller1 wrote: post #62

I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.

prepare for epic cards made of sub-cards and card tasks, all in the name of Agility of course.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by beat » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:57 PM UTC

lukasm wrote: post #30

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

and Github Project is a very basic Trello clone.

Github Project is to Trello as Bitbucket is to Github.

Guess which two products I use every day, and which two I avoid like the plague.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by criddell » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:58 PM UTC

christophilus wrote: post #49

spacehacker wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most of it is about the brand; about buying a name which is already imprinted in millions of minds. The technology alone is probably only worth 1-5% (?) of the price.

Agreed. Maybe the 2. ??? was "How the heck did they go from unknown to a recognizable brand?"

By really nailing step 1.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by beat » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 2:58 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #29

hashkb wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this have to do with h GitHub?

JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies. Github's issue tracker sort of sucks and this hurts it tremendously -- I know as I live with that shitty issue tracker in an enterprise situation.

Atlassian has cracked the enterprise sales nut completely. Github is still struggling with it some. Completeness is a big reason for that.