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I know it's not what you want to hear, but we have no plans to make a self-hosted version.

Yes, I should have said I've seen that in your FAQs. I understand it, of course, but it's a great pity -- the demand is relatively high, judging by the numbers of forum posts looking for "trello alternatives" out there.

It wouldn't even have to be updated anything like as frequently as real Trello, or at all. A stable snapshot, with security updates if you found egregious holes, would be more than enough.

It's very hard to sell a product only to "understanding" customers, because I doubt they would agree on what "as frequently" means. Or how much self-assembly is required to put the whole thing together if there's no installer. People will say they just want a zip of .js files and they'll be happy to get it running, but when they get that zip file they get very angry, not happy. I've seen it happen too often.

"When you said it had some rough edges, I thought you meant ..."

Ever considered selling it in a form of an installable appliance?

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