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Really cool that you can reach that kind of valuation with a basket of products, rather than a single run-away network effect fueled win. I find it very inspira
by malanj 13y ago
Really cool that you can reach that kind of valuation with a basket of products, rather than a single run-away network effect fueled win. I find it very inspirational that they do that well by building great software that people love.
also: They really make awesome products (we use BitBucket, HipChat and Confluence)
- dopamean 13y agoDid they acquire HipChat or was that home grown?
- daigoba66 13y agoBitBucket and HipChat are fairly recently acquisitions, but fit perfectly in their portfolio. Some of their lesser-used products are also acquisitions.
- daveoflynn 13y agoMany of the products were acquisitions, though often at a very early stage in the product's lifecycle. Off the top of my head, acquisitions: HipChat, Bitbucket, GreenHopper (now JIRA Agile), SourceTree, FishEye, Crucible, Clover, Crowd, Bamboo.
- tomjadams 13y agoCenqua is the company that had fishey, crucible & clover. About 5 people when they bought it, and probably their first acquisition.
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- alecsmart1 13y agoThey acquired hipchat.
- jonbishop 13y agoThey acquired Hipchat - https://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/03/press-release-atlassian-acquires-hipcha/ https://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/03/press-release-atlassian-...
- andymoe 13y agoBoth bitbucket and Hip Chat were acquired.
- tghw 13y agoThey acquired both BitBucket and HipChat.
- lobotryas 13y ago>great software that people love As someone who has to use and administer JIRA I'll have to respectfully disagree. The nicest thing I can say about the product is that it was built "by engineers, for engineers". People who want empowering software that gets out of the way appear to have been an afterthought.
- Karunamon 13y agoAs someone who also uses and administers JIRA i'll have to respectfully disagree with that disagreement ;) The backend application may very well be engineer-focused, but that speaks more to its flexibility than anything, IMO - as far as user experience, it's as empowering and minimalistic as you make it. One of the few pieces of software I truly love.
- acutelyobtuse 13y agoThis is not meant to sound challenging, I have used and, both loved and loathed, some JIRA setups. A lot of it might be implementation. But as for the question, again not challenging, just curious: What do you suggest as empowering, out-of-the-way, issue tracking software?
- LanceH 13y agoI've really liked fogbugz.
- ark15 13y agoI second that. I sometimes wonder why FogBugz+Kiln combination has not 'caught on' as much as other offerings like github, atlassian products, etc. My only (but major) gripe I have with FogBugz is that it is stupidly hard to insert inline images in cases (compared to how easy it is in a github issue)..and while at it, the entire editor could use a makeover for ease of use/markdown capability
- LanceH 13y agoI think it comes down to pricing for a lot of people. $300 a year per user basically and you don't own anything at the end of that term. $7200 a year for 25-150 doesn't seem so bad once you get up to 100+ users. $300 a year might not be bad for a developer who is in it every day, or a PM who keeps track of these things every day, but for that person who gets called in to fix one thing it can be expensive. The price is steep for the most price sensitive users who probably already have experience in another tracking system. It's hard to get that user to try it the first time. Even the free version is very limited compared to other trials, allowing a total of 2 users, which probably isn't representative of the number of people involved when issue tracking is brought up.
- rqebmm 13y agoironically the product of theirs I like the most (Sourcetree) is free. I've heard mixed reviews on JIRA, and Confluence is useful but we certainly have gripes about it (seriously, no symbolic links?!)
- thathonkey 13y agoSourcetree is by far the best Git GUI I've ever seen.
- rimantas 13y agoDid you try Tower? That's a paid app though.
- JBiserkov 13y ago50 euros + the price of a Mac :-D
- thathonkey 13y agoI personally use the command line but a lot of my team members aren't comfortable with CLIs so that's why I was exploring Sourcetree and found it to be quite full-featured compared to others I've tried. I've found that Git has so many options, most GUIs barely scratch the surface of what is available. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll give Tower a whirl.
- JBiserkov 13y agoThis. My favorites are the (un)staging by hunks/lines and 'use rebase instead of merge ...' option.
- JonoBB 13y agoI don't work on windows anymore, but Git Extensions is still my favourite Git Gui https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/ https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
- madeofpalk 13y ago> They really make awesome products Oh dear god. As an employee at a medium sized company that uses Jira and Confluence, I have to disagree. I'm sure people out there have managed to wrangle and configure Jira into something usable, but it's implementation where I work has been just horrible. And confluence... Apart from being just slow and unreliable, it's text editor gives me nightmares. I mean, all due respect for building that (it does some pretty powerful and complicated things), but 95% of the time I just want to write an article in Markdown and post it.
- Karunamon 13y agoI'll be the first to admit that both of those applications are the source of much misery if mishandled. JIRA especially, considering how many layers deep you can go sometimes. This issue type belongs to this scheme which uses this screen in some issue types but not others, that's designed in another scheme... aiya. It gets complicated. Unfortunately, that's enterprise for you. Basic human logic is often insufficient to handle the demands... Those applications are absolutely only as good as the time taken to adapt them to the needs at hand and to the team using it. And +1 for markdown support. There are plugins out there that add that, but... don't get me started on their plugin ecosystem.
- bowbles 13y agoMarkdown support is not native in Confluence, but they have definitely delivered some workarounds for this: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.plugins.confluence.markdown.confluence-markdown-macro https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.plug...
- Karunamon 13y agoI was not aware that existed! You've just made a lot of people very happy, thank you!
- letstryagain 13y agoDo you prefer Fogbugz over the Atlassian bug tracker?