Trello Limits Teams on Free Tier To 10 Boards, Rolls Out Enterprise Automations and Admin Controls (venturebeat.com) 34
In this week's episode of which popular service will reduce its offerings to the non-paying users, Trello said it will have a go. From a report: Trello, a Kanban-inspired project management app organized around the idea of boards containing cards with attachments, to-do items, and comments, is getting a few much-needed improvements. Today, the Trello team announced that Trello Enterprise, a corporate-class subscription tier launched in 2015, will gain 13 new features this week, including improved admin controls, a new visibility setting, and compliance certifications.
It's the largest product update in Trello Enterprise's history, the Atlassian subsidiary says, but it's a tad bittersweet -- a new restriction will be imposed on teams that use the free version of Trello. Moving forward, they'll be limited to a maximum of 10 open boards at any given time. (Enterprise and Trello Business Class users get unlimited boards, and existing free teams will be able to add up to 10 additional boards until May 1, 2019.) Last week, it was Dropbox that introduced some limits to its non-paying users.
It's the largest product update in Trello Enterprise's history, the Atlassian subsidiary says, but it's a tad bittersweet -- a new restriction will be imposed on teams that use the free version of Trello. Moving forward, they'll be limited to a maximum of 10 open boards at any given time. (Enterprise and Trello Business Class users get unlimited boards, and existing free teams will be able to add up to 10 additional boards until May 1, 2019.) Last week, it was Dropbox that introduced some limits to its non-paying users.
If you need more than 10 boards... (Score:4, Insightful)
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This is assuming you are managing a project with a Start, Middle and an End.
While the Build Team gets all the credit, the maintenance teams, will often have a lot of sub projects that they need to work on to keep the project up to date, fix problems, and add things that are needed. Often this will require more projects, and many that don't need to be viable to everyone.
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I've heard good things about Trello but avoided it for this very reason - it was free, but would inevitably become more limited unless you paid. I didn't want to get reliant on it and then end up paying whatever they demand to avoid the pain of moving.
At least with the various Git hosting services you can easily move to another any not lose much.
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I am lobbying for our workplace to pay for Trello; but until/unless that happens - I have found it useful enough that I'm paying for my own "gold" subscription at $45/year.
Since I'm paying for it, though, I am using it strictly to meet my own needs and am not letting most of my higher-ups have access. If they need to look at my Trello boards and cards, they can pay for it.
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That'll show 'em!
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That'll show 'em!
Well, they actually have asked me to give them access - cuz some of them use the free version of Trello.
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Well, it depends how you're using it. For me, 10 boards is more than I'll ever need because each of my separate projects is actually just a card (I use Trello as mainly an overview of what I need to do). But the Trello folks themselves seem to go for a one-board-per-project model, where even minute project details are tracked - in that case, I could see the need for more than 10 boards (depending on team size).
Although, in the latter case, if you're that dependent on Trello you should probably be a paying c
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Seriously, can you ACs stop spamming about Kendall. I see 20 times the amount of these comments than any actual comment from the person you're talking about. Please stop the gossip and talk about the story, or this is just completely hypocritical. Or at least have the balls to post this with your user name.
Just wondering (Score:4, Insightful)
Just wondering ... is anyone actually shocked that there might eventually be some limits on, you know, free stuff?
Surely you didn't think their business model was really going to be "we give you as much cool free stuff as you need forever"?
Linking Venturebeat articles now? (Score:2)
Slashdot has become CNET.
DevOps tool Free Tier model = 1999 eyeballs (Score:4, Insightful)
It's going to be interesting seeing what happens to all these tool and service vendors. The accepted business model for almost all of them appears to be as follows:
- Develop cool new tool, release it as open source
- Let people download and use it as much as they want, calling that "ToolX Open Source"
- Host it, and make it free for 5 or 10 users/instances/whatever, calling that "ToolX Free Tier"
- Charge for support and/or more features/users/instances/whatever, calling that "ToolX Enterprise"
- Hang on as long as you can until Microsoft, Amazon, Google or Atlassian buy you or you IPO
For anyone who wasn't around during the First Dotcom Bubble, back in 1999 companies were losing massive amounts of money giving away money or products in the name of "eyeballs" and it was thought they'd make it up in volume. Trello's a little different in that it's a service and not a tool...but some of the same principles apply. They want to get bought and merged into GitHub or Jira, and it seems like the vendors of these little "glue" services are in a good position to have that happen. They just have to give enough of the product away to generate critical mass or get picked up by a unicorn startup on the way up.
What will be interesting to see is how many companies pick up these tools on the free or open source tier and buy extras as they grow. If it's a lot...then IPO and your founders are billionaires. If it's a few...then you become Microsoft employees and your founders are billionaires. What could possibly go wrong? :-)
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Trello is already owned by Atlassian, the makers of Jira ...
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