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Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform
- benchmark6 11y ago12M 'registered' users...
- flardinois 11y agoI asked them about that (http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/19/trello-launches-developer-platform/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/19/trello-launches-developer-p...). Those are total signups, not active users. They are not disclosing monthly actives.
- smt88 11y agoI'm genuinely surprised at how tiny Trello is. I guess if enough of your users are paying and your overhead is low, it really doesn't matter.
- bshimmin 11y agoPeople pay for Trello?
- truebosko 11y agoWe do, and we're pretty happy with it!
- timrpeterson 11y agoHow many employees?
- smt88 11y agoLinkedIn says 54. That's 222k registered users per employee. If they have 10% active users (which I think is generous), then they're looking at 22.2k users per employee. Basecamp currently has 50 employees on LinkedIn. I'd be interested if anyone has stats for how many users they have.
- mhp 11y agohttps://trello.com/humans.txt https://trello.com/humans.txt (although that's probably only half of the people).
- bluedino 11y agoAre there ads on Trello? Look at something like Stack Exchange where half the employees are sales/marketing: http://stackexchange.com/about/team http://stackexchange.com/about/team
- mhp 11y agoNope. No ads.
- philfrasty 11y agoWould be nice to have the Power-Ups working in the mobile apps...still waiting for the calendar-view to be available on iOS.
- mhp 11y agoAwesome that this hit front page. Thanks! But I think the more interesting link for the HN crowd is this one: How to build a Trello powerup: https://developers.trello.com/power-ups/samples https://developers.trello.com/power-ups/samples Sample github repo: https://github.com/trello/power-up-template https://github.com/trello/power-up-template
- jay_kyburz 11y agoI'm a huge fan of Trello and before that, Fogbugz. Thanks very much!
- sideproject 11y agowhat about trello tech stack? that's quite interesting for HNers too! http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/ http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/ but that post is about 3 years old, so I wonder how they changed over the years....
- sergiotapia 11y agoWe also have some additional info and insight on Trello's tech stack: http://stackshare.io/trello/trello http://stackshare.io/trello/trello
- thedufer 11y agoWhere does that data come from? It's significantly out of date. I guess because the tech stack blog post is so old?
- jay_kyburz 11y agoCan you tell us if the core components are the same. Node, Redis, Mongo? I've been looking at Node, Redis, PostgreSQL for my next project.
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- rogerbinns 11y agoMy biggest beef with Trello is lack of multiple account support. For example if you use it in your home life (as their blog greatly encourages), and also want it for work (as their business model greatly encourages) then you'll want distinct accounts. Without distinct accounts, you get a mixing of the data, permissions, where it is accessed from, notifications, email sent by them, makes board admin harder etc. While you can try some hacky alternatives in a browser, they are a pain, confusing and a poor workaround. On mobile you are completely screwed, unless you want to log out and log back in each time you want to switch accounts. (You do have a long cryptic passphrase which makes this even worse?) Google has shown for years how to get multiple accounts right. Why does no one seem to learn? (Yes, Dropbox I am looking at you too.)
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoGoogle doesn't get multiple accounts exactly right across app boundaries. For example, the links to view a Google Groups discussion is completely broken when you're in gmail on a non-primary account (it attempts to load the link with your primary account, which won't have access, and switching to your secondary account drops the link to the group).
- hobs 11y agoDont try to separate your youtube and gmail account, I have created 6 google+ pages overall and I lost all my playlists and watch history for years, but now I can comment on a video on youtube!
- erikpukinskis 11y agoI entirely lost access to a YouTube account with videos totalling several million views because I apparently pressed a wrong button during that transition. Nothing to be done though. Google is a big fish.
- hobs 11y ago:(, yeah. I had a friend who even talked to the youtube team about it, didnt have much hope.
- lmcnish14 11y agoWhy do power-ups inconsistently change the markdown for Github links? When you don't have power-ups enabled, it will shorten all Github links and add a nicer format to certain types but when you do have the power-ups, it no longer shortens Github links at all but adds the octocat to the beginning. While having power-ups can be nice, the added inconsistency is a bit off-putting. It would be great to shorten and format all of the links in the same fashion across all boards regardless of whether or not you have power-ups enabled on that particular board.
- edgyswingset 11y agoI love the idea, but is the ability to display gifs really all that important in the context of what they intend this to be used for?
- dabernathy89 11y agoI've always wanted to like Trello, but i'm never sure quite how or what to use it for. It doesn't work well for me for project management, since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees. I'm not sure how folks get around that. edit: I was thinking of checklists, not cards.
- hk__2 11y ago> since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees. You can do both.
- dabernathy89 11y agoIs that new? Unless something's changed recently, the only way I knew of to do this is a hacky workaround: http://help.trello.com/article/942-assigning-people-and-due-dates-to-specific-checklist-items http://help.trello.com/article/942-assigning-people-and-due-...
- hk__2 11y agoNo, they’ve been available for (at least) 3 years: http://blog.trello.com/due-date-notifications-list-move-and-copy-org-logos-and-more/ http://blog.trello.com/due-date-notifications-list-move-and-...
- lucasmullens 11y agoThat link is referring to checklists. You've been able to assign people and due dates to cards for a long time.
- dabernathy89 11y agoSorry, this was about a year ago when I was researching different options for project management, and I forgot that it was the checklist feature that I was thinking of.
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- gglitch 11y agoTrello: if you'd let me buy you once, install you locally, and save my data locally and in an open format, like Day One, I'd be a lifer. Fantastic program otherwise, though I remain an Org man.
- phillc73 11y agoI had a similar concern with Trello. There are a few decent open source self-hosted alternatives. In the end I settled on Kanboard. It has a lot more features than Trello and a decent (although recently launched) plugin ecosystem. http://kanboard.net http://kanboard.net
- markbao 11y agoBusiness Class-only is a bit frustrating (if it needs to be paid, can it be on Trello Gold too?), but this is really exciting. Would love to see if people start to develop tools for productivity (like Pomodoro and that sort of thing) with it.
- Angostura 11y agoYup, lots of cross Gold users on the blog.
- zamland 11y agoI think Trello is going to win the task management wars. It's better designed for mobile (card interfaces), simple to start with additional functionality bundled in, its interface is general purpose rather than specific to developers, and it's building a robust platform. I think this company has executed it very well. Bravo.
- puranjay 11y agoIt also has a head start over the competitors. This might sound like not a big deal, but it has already some very vocal supporters in the blogosphere who've been recommending it for ages. The only way it can fuck up is if it goes the Evernote way
- zamland 11y agoWell, I think the product is just better. Asana, Atlassian, and other products has been out there for ages.
- threatofrain 11y agoOne thing that surprises me is that Trello's cards don't behave like cards, whether on iOS or Android. They simply look like cards. You don't swipe them to do anything. You don't multi-select the cards. They're just card-looking buttons that open up a modal dialogue, and they've been this way since the beginning. I find it rather slow or bulky compared to Google's concept of cards.
- zamland 11y agoyes fair point. agreed.
- yazriel 11y agoTrello??? It is so under powered. They been at it for years and still no decent SEARCH, no proper sub-tasks or dependencies, etc. To me, it feels like there is no real active development on this.
- im1983 11y agolol on the graph. of course it will go up over time.... I'm sure their DAU graph is looking much "better".
- leuma 11y agoWhat is nice about the Trello is that, they have never for once confined themselves to developer community. From the beginning Trello was given as tool to organize yourself, and it still appeals to my wife as it does appeal to me. The new Power-Ups platform would definitely add more dimensions to trello.