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The title is misleading. Signups are not really what matters. I wonder how many users actually log in at least once a week. I have Trello account and tried to

by lubos 14y ago

The title is misleading. Signups are not really what matters. I wonder how many users actually log in at least once a week. I have Trello account and tried to use it when it launched but eventually I reverted back to my good old pad and pen once again.

swdunlop 14y ago
Our engineering team logs into it daily, and some of us stay logged in throughout the day, checking off lists and hashing out ideas in the cards before importing them into engineering docs. It's a great way to manage features and organize tasks, even if we don't fit into a classic "Agile" cycle. Trello has been a big hit with my wife who is a writer. She uses it to organize scenes, chapters and various snippets before integrating them into her draft. I've tried introducing various storyboarding applications to her with very high resistance -- Trello was the only thing that really "took" with her. If you just want to jot down notes and don't need to organize them, Trello's probably just a bit too rich an interface. Once you've got more balls in the air and jugglers in the mix, Trello becomes a lot more interesting.
larrys 14y ago
"Signups are not really what matters." Signups to free services matter less, relatively as well. What means something though, in nearly everyone's mind, is a large number. 500k free signups to a service (regardless of whether they login more than once (which is what I did btw) is more newsworthy and attention getting then a small amount of paid users paying bupkas to the traditional world. (I'm not talking about someone posting on HN about something that they put together over the weekend which earns them $1000 per month which HN finds interesting).
mhp 14y ago
I agree and disagree. I don't think the title is misleading. (in fact, it's a fact!) but your point about engagement is valid. We track a bunch of other interesting numbers as well, such as number of active users in the last month, number of users with four actions (they actually clicked something) in the last month, number of new boards created in the last day/week, etc.
alttab 14y ago
If pad and pen are what it's replacing, you aren't taking full advantage. Get your team on there.

by lubos 14y ago

swdunlop 14y ago

Our engineering team logs into it daily, and some of us stay logged in throughout the day, checking off lists and hashing out ideas in the cards before importing them into engineering docs. It's a great way to manage features and organize tasks, even if we don't fit into a classic "Agile" cycle. Trello has been a big hit with my wife who is a writer. She uses it to organize scenes, chapters and various snippets before integrating them into her draft. I've tried introducing various storyboarding applications to her with very high resistance -- Trello was the only thing that really "took" with her. If you just want to jot down notes and don't need to organize them, Trello's probably just a bit too rich an interface. Once you've got more balls in the air and jugglers in the mix, Trello becomes a lot more interesting.

larrys 14y ago

"Signups are not really what matters." Signups to free services matter less, relatively as well. What means something though, in nearly everyone's mind, is a large number. 500k free signups to a service (regardless of whether they login more than once (which is what I did btw) is more newsworthy and attention getting then a small amount of paid users paying bupkas to the traditional world. (I'm not talking about someone posting on HN about something that they put together over the weekend which earns them $1000 per month which HN finds interesting).

mhp 14y ago

I agree and disagree. I don't think the title is misleading. (in fact, it's a fact!) but your point about engagement is valid. We track a bunch of other interesting numbers as well, such as number of active users in the last month, number of users with four actions (they actually clicked something) in the last month, number of new boards created in the last day/week, etc.

alttab 14y ago

If pad and pen are what it's replacing, you aren't taking full advantage. Get your team on there.