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I'm no prude, and this probably won't bother many people, but "shit just got real" as a pricing level... not sure how that's gonna fly, when you're trying to get $2400/year from someone. I'm all for cheeky sales text, but this comes across as a step beyond professional. But, perhaps it'll attract more of the sort of paying customer you're looking to serve?

I was wondering more about the use case: are there really so many agencies that manage Trello content for other companies?

For Facebook-Pages, Twitter, google, Instagram,... i know it, but Trello?

It's not really aimed at people managing other peoples Trello boards. It's for anyone managing multiple boards, that could be an agency with boards for each of their clients. But those aren't their clients boards, they are part of the agencies workflow and may be private from their clients.

There are other needs for things like this - I'd tried to build a system to get a dashboard view of multiple issue trackers, because as a consultant, I'm often having to deal with multiple client environments, and switching between multiple issue trackers is a pain. It was harder than I expected, and focusing just on value in Trello is a neat idea.

I'm also a consultant, and brought all my clients into Trello, at least for user acquisition projects (what I consult on). Having everything in one system makes life significantly easier. However, I still have to dig into each board to see what's happening, and even then there's no status dashboard; just an activity feed.

I can see the problem this is trying to solve.

Thanks, ok this usecase i can comprehend.

You're right I think. I should think a little harder to find something which conveys the same feeling without the need for the language.

"It just got real" would have almost the same impact without the drawbacks.

Thanks good suggestion. It's currently a toss up between

1. It just got real

2. Too serious for a tag line

3. All grown up

I'm leaning towards number 2 at the moment. I'll deploy a new version tomorrow so will make the final decision then

Hi folks,

I left a full time job at the end of last year and after spending a few weeks with my first child when she was born in January I've been looking to build my own products. After a conversation with a friend who runs a content marketing agency about some of the tech issues he was facing I came up with the idea for Corrello. A large number of his top issues were down to getting data out of Trello. For example he was losing upwards of 2 hours a week looking between each of their boards (one per client) making sure everything was on time, nothing had got stuck and no one had added a comment without @mentioning the person required to move the card on. I originally built a prototype to show him but since that first week I've had something live and I've been working with a few early customers to get the initial feature set right.

I think there is a lot of potential to build add-ons and plugins to Trello for any developers looking for a project out there.

I look forward to all your feedback and comments :)

Interesting idea and product - I'll definitely check it out. You probably have a much better idea of this than me, but your entitlements per level don't seem to connect with the way I see people using Trello. I don't see a lot of situations where someone has over 30 boards, or that there is a need for a dashboard for anybody but a handful of people within that org. But I recognize this is just my experience - good luck!

I've seen people with close to 30 boards but not over that yet. How many boards people have does remain to be seen but I'm expecting people to sign up to the freelance and startup tiers mostly.

I'd agree that the number of people who need a dashboard will be fairly small in most orgs. That was why I decided to have the tiers based on number of boards rather than number of users logging into corrello.

I can see a situation where a developer might need to track 2 or 3 boards relating to the projects they're working on, but someone at Software Manager/CTO level wants to see all the projects.

With a Startup/Business subscription everyone in the company could have a dashboard that's as complex or simple as they need.

I've got > 30 boards, but most aren't active any more - I don't think I have more than 10 that are really being used at any one time.

I am a trello user but it your service is not much use to me, however I have passed it on to my project manager and my head of IT as I imagine they deal with multiple boards and something like this would be very useful way of tracking them.

Thank you very much. If they've any questions or improvements they'd like to see they can drop me an email: robin @ thedomain linked :)

How hard would it be for Trello to come up with their own dashboards feature? It seems risky to build a product like this, solely based on another product (that has a fantastic tech team behind it and can easily replicate this feature), no?

May be OP is planning to support multiple platforms in future, and not just Trello?

It would not be hard at all I imagine. I built this as a solo founder so the team at Trello could no doubt replicate this if they desired. This is the risk with building anything on someone else's platform and I don't deny I am taking a risk.

However, I'm gambling that the benefits outweigh the impact of those risks in this situation. Building Corrello on Trello gave me access to a large user base (5M as of last autumn) and one which is growing. Check out google trends for asana, basecamp and Trello https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=trello%2C%20baseca... Not directly linked to their user numbers but Trello looks to be increasing in terms of awareness. I believe there are a large amount of people out there who were previously managing projects in excel or on post it notes. Trello has pulled those projects into the cloud and put a decent API on them. That's a whole lot of projects which were previously stuck to peoples desktops (literally in some cases) which are now accessible via an API. I think it's worth the risk that Trello decides to replicate this functionality as there is a good opportunity there if they don't (or until they do)

Calculated risk - thank you for taking time to answer. Didn't mean to rain on your parade, was just genuinely curious :)

Good luck with Corrello - it looks great.

We released a similar-ish product last year called Ollert (https://ollertapp.com), which we've since open-sourced (https://github.com/sep/ollert). The support at Trello was able to help us out in a few cases and they even sent us some swag.

Anyway, this is really nice and professional-looking! Good luck!

Thanks! I checked out Ollertap. It seemed to be focussed on stats for individual boards. Not a million miles away from Corrello but quite a different use case I think. Nice work though, especially for open sourcing it.

Its quite generous with the board allotment, if it was me i would bump them all down a level and add an enterprise level.

e.g p=1, F=3, S=10, SB=30, E=150

Good idea. I'll likely up the prices or drop the board allotments. I wanted to launch with something a bit more generous as it seems easier to put prices up. Then I can see how people are using it to get a feel for where the bands should be.

It did seem that most people using 3 or less boards didn't have much need for a dashboard which is why I pegged the free one to that. Something like Corrello was more of a nice to have to them it seemed.

At the least, I'm sure you're getting enough traffic these days to make it something you can easily test.

Why not both? Drop the board allotments -and- up the prices.

And make enterprise like $499 a month, it makes the others look cheap :-)

How strongly are Corrello accounts tied to Trello organisations?

e.g. I'm a software developer working for Startup X, but I also have some personal Trello boards to keep track of family activities etc.

If Startup X signs up for Trello, can I create a dashboard that mixes my work and personal boards?

You could but others could see those dashboards (although not your data). You'd probably be best off signing up for a personal account as well.

The way it works at the moment is that all dashboards are visible to everyone you invite to your Corrello account. However, they all get their own copy of each dashboard, which uses their Trello credentials to load the data for them. In this way you don't accidentally share data with people who shouldn't see it by creating a dashboard in Corrello. This was a bit more work for me to build and a little more complex to explain perhaps but felt like the correct behaviour.

OK - that makes sense.

A Corrello account has multiple logins, but the dashboards are linked to the account, not the login.

That's a better way of explaining it :)

Great work so far, Robin. Really smart way to solve this business problem. I agree that maybe the # of Trello boards per price tier can be bumped downward; at the moment you're being really generous.

Find it strange that Trello doesn't promote this kind of add-ons on their website.

tell me about it :(

They're advertising for a Developer evangelist at the moment. Maybe they will sort that out.

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