4 ms·

Hoping that they publish some registration numbers after the Business plan has been around for a little bit, interested to see how many people will opt to pay.

Hoping that they publish some registration numbers after the Business plan has been around for a little bit, interested to see how many people will opt to pay. Now, the really interesting question will be how much time do they spend adding free versus business features in the coming months? Does free start to get no new features? What makes a feature a business feature over a free feature? EDIT - Removed my surprise about no backlash since I am geting negative points for it.

tghw 13y ago
Why would there be a backlash? It's not like they're taking features away and making them pay-only.
- zachgersh 13y ago
  Yes, they are not taking features away or making things pay only but the bigger question is now on how they split their time going forward. They have effectively created two classes of users which they will support differently. Business is going to get features that the free plan will not. Deciding how they will split their time between the two users bases will be one of their biggest concerns going forward.
  - tghw 13y ago
    Joel spells it out in his announcement[1]. In the future we'll continue to add free features to Trello (there is a lot of exciting stuff in the hopper)—anything that is a common feature, useful to anyone, will be free. We’ll also continue to develop new Business Class features that help large organizations manage Trello, and we may come up with other things to sell to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello. In the meantime, we sure appreciate the cookies! [1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html
  - arkitaip 13y ago
    The current version of Trello is pretty feature complete as far as I'm concerned. More stuff just creates reason to mess around with Trello instead of doing actual work.
    - zachgersh 13y ago
      I agree. I feel like they could leave free alone and it would be great for practically any use case.
citricsquid 13y ago
They have always been open about it, why would there be any backlash? http://help.trello.com/customer/portal/articles/887713-how-much-does-trello-cost- http://help.trello.com/customer/portal/articles/887713-how-m... They have stuck to their promises.
jjg 13y ago
Joel wrote a blog post* today about the introduction of Business Class. He says: "In the future we'll continue to add free features to Trello (there is a lot of exciting stuff in the hopper)—anything that is a common feature, useful to anyone, will be free. We’ll also continue to develop new Business Class features that help large organizations manage Trello, and we may come up with other things to sell to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello. " * http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html
- zachgersh 13y ago
  I read the post and it doesn't mention the split. It's great that they have more features to dev and I am sure FogCreek will do right by its customers. The point I am interested in though is how they will now balance their time between the feature sets.

tghw 13y ago

Why would there be a backlash? It's not like they're taking features away and making them pay-only.

zachgersh 13y ago
Yes, they are not taking features away or making things pay only but the bigger question is now on how they split their time going forward. They have effectively created two classes of users which they will support differently. Business is going to get features that the free plan will not. Deciding how they will split their time between the two users bases will be one of their biggest concerns going forward.
- tghw 13y ago
  Joel spells it out in his announcement[1]. In the future we'll continue to add free features to Trello (there is a lot of exciting stuff in the hopper)—anything that is a common feature, useful to anyone, will be free. We’ll also continue to develop new Business Class features that help large organizations manage Trello, and we may come up with other things to sell to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello. In the meantime, we sure appreciate the cookies! [1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html
- arkitaip 13y ago
  The current version of Trello is pretty feature complete as far as I'm concerned. More stuff just creates reason to mess around with Trello instead of doing actual work.
  - zachgersh 13y ago
    I agree. I feel like they could leave free alone and it would be great for practically any use case.

citricsquid 13y ago

They have always been open about it, why would there be any backlash? http://help.trello.com/customer/portal/articles/887713-how-much-does-trello-cost- http://help.trello.com/customer/portal/articles/887713-how-m... They have stuck to their promises.

jjg 13y ago

Joel wrote a blog post* today about the introduction of Business Class. He says: "In the future we'll continue to add free features to Trello (there is a lot of exciting stuff in the hopper)—anything that is a common feature, useful to anyone, will be free. We’ll also continue to develop new Business Class features that help large organizations manage Trello, and we may come up with other things to sell to people who are getting a lot of value out of Trello. " * http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/30.html

zachgersh 13y ago
I read the post and it doesn't mention the split. It's great that they have more features to dev and I am sure FogCreek will do right by its customers. The point I am interested in though is how they will now balance their time between the feature sets.