37 engineers on Hacker News describe using Trello first-hand: 14 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I've been using it for more than 10 years now to track personal todos and projects.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · amne · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I miss Trello sometimes. The Atlassian merger killed most of its old spark... and then decided to turn off Trello entirely”
mixed · production · WorldMaker · 2023-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We'd outgrown Trello (not enough structure) but didn't want to give up on the speed / ease of moving and updating cards.”
regret · production · tomrandle · 2019-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the end I'm happy we ditched it in favor of Trello.”
endorse · production · xrstf · 2015-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I definitely prefer using GitHub Issues or Trello for my own projects.”
endorse · personal · tomphoolery · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Trello for various aspects of my life for some time.”
endorse · personal · SeanKilleen · 2015-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Trello is quite scriptable though and I've been using it with a couple of rough scripts to keep track of our own sales process.”
endorse · production · gingerlime · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work I use Trello, which is great, just too much for my personal project needs.”
endorse · production · ZanderEarth32 · 2013-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Trello (useful for ad-hoc teams)”
endorse · production · KevinEldon · 2013-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some of our favorite are: Trello”
endorse · production · WadeF · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If it's not in Trello, it doesn't exist. This works great when you're widely distributed across geography and timezones.”
endorse · production · hoop · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're in the middle of migrating to a real bug tracker”
regret · production · fhd2 · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Also shoutouts for Stripe and Trello.”
endorse · production · bmelton · 2012-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's one of the main reasons we've switched from Acunote to Trello.”
endorse · production · mahmoudimus · 2012-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Trello was amongst the firsts to add file picker support (great feature we use frequently).”
endorse · personal · NirDremer · 2012-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Trello (with the Scrum plugin for estimation) and find it really fits the bill, especially for price.”
endorse · production · nicpottier · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“that's what we use right now and so far it has turned out to be great not to mention it's free.”
endorse · production · bamazizi · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think Trello is wonderful... The problem we're having with Trello is that we can't get a good view across all projects.”
mixed · production · 8ig8 · 2011-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also tried out Trello but it has a "toysh" feeling to it and Asana just has more features.”
regret · personal · koevet · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I went through Evernote, Workflowy, Google Todos, Google Keep, Todoist, Notion, Trelo, Remember the Milk, Obsidian”
neutral · personal · iLemming · 2024-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved off Trello to that. Issues list and a simple board for visualization”
neutral · production · edoceo · 2022-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Break work into trello cards. Sequence them to try to deliver incremental wins along the way.”
neutral · production · afarrell · 2020-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello.”
neutral · personal · seltzered_ · 2019-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had this issue several times when we migrated from Trello to Jira.”
neutral · production · tbarbugli · 2018-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We do code reviews and inline/trello todos.”
neutral · production · bkovacev · 2017-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my company we use: - Salesforce - wiki - google groups - github - Trello”
neutral · production · matt_the_bass · 2017-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we manage in Trello. We use them for lightweight project manager.”
neutral · production · matt_the_bass · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I now create a separate Trello board for anything that requires more than 3-4 tasks.”
neutral · personal · guiambros · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from Trello to Restyaboard”
neutral · production · johnx123-up · 2017-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for now I have been using http://yourls.org/ (A self hosted URL shortener) with Trello.”
neutral · personal · _m8fo · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to it (edit: JIRA) recently from Trello”
neutral · production · themartorana · 2016-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've been a basecamp user, then former basecamp user, as we switched to Trello. Ironically that was for cost”
neutral · production · jdawg77 · 2015-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Trello to keep my different lists organized: Inbox, Today, This Week, Waiting For, and Done.”
neutral · personal · rrg · 2014-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have actually migrated to Issues from Trello for task management”
neutral · production · eswat · 2013-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“trello from everything from shopping lists to kanban boards”
neutral · production · sklivvz1971 · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“More recently, at work, I've been using a Trello board, as I'm sure many others here do.”
neutral · production · themckman · 2012-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?