Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by travisp on Friday February 08, 2013 @10:09AM
(#5188180)
Blimp looks interesting, but I didn't know what it was until I clicked around, and I'm still not clear on the major differences between it and Trello. May I politely suggest that not everyone reading this post will know what Blimp is and may not take the effort to click around and read? You'd be doing yourself a favor by either: saying what Blimp is somewhere on that page, or providing a brief list of reasons I might want to switch from Trello to Blimp.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by flexterra on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:01AM
(#5188441)
Just updated the blog post with an answer to "Why move from Trello to Blimp?" to summarize: Blimp understands the process your team is using so it can extract meaningful data from it. Head back to the blog post to read all of it.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by pc86 on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:31AM
(#5188632)
This has been said numerous times on HN and elsewhere, but I would love to see what your pricing structure is outside of "starts at $12/month." I'm not going to give you my information just to see a pricing chart.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by tommi on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:32AM
(#5188644)
When you have a fixed process then extracting data out of it does not enable you to improve the process. It does enable you to improve other things but it might be adapting to the process given for you.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by ChikkaChiChi on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:03AM
(#5188455)
From what I could immediately gather, it does a better job at showing task to subtask relationships, makes it easier to delegate, and uses pretty fonts.
Trello has an extra level of nesting (Board -> List -> Card -> Checklist), shows more structure without scrolling, and tends to break a lot.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by james33 on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:25AM
(#5188593)
Their site looks gorgeous, but I wish there was a video walkthrough or at least some full screenshots so I could see what the app itself looks like and how it functions.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by djmollusk on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:17AM
(#5188536)
I am happy to see that too. Unfortunately a common trend in Puerto Rico is that it's best and brightest move to the states and only come home for navidad/three kings.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by igenapps on Saturday February 09, 2013 @07:53AM
(#5192433)
iGenApps (http://igenapps.com) is another startup based in PR looking to revolutionize the mobile app creation process to be one super easy, portable and fun to do.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by lux on Friday February 08, 2013 @12:01PM
(#5188811)
I've started trying out the service, but coming from Basecamp, my team relies on their messages to keep ideas and project-related conversations archived with the rest of the project data. Any advice on how to do the same within Blimp?
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by mikeryan on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:56AM
(#5188784)
When a user starts working on that task he or she just have to click on it to let everyone know that he or she is working on that. Cool, but I can do that with Trello. Yes you can, but with Blimp if that task stays in the DOING state for more than 24 hours without being completed the system will email the user asking for an update on the task.
Sweet! automated micro-management!
Honestly I like a few things in concept with Blimp, but one of the things I tend to hate about most "Methodologies" is when they're not flexible to the realties of your team.
Re:Moving from Trello to Blimp
by flexterra on Friday February 08, 2013 @12:04PM
(#5188837)
I agree with you on: "I tend to hate about most "Methodologies" is when they're not flexible to the realties of your team".
That's why we made Blimp in such a way that if you don't want to use the methodology you don't have to and you'll get a very nice task management app. But if you learn the simple process and use it, the app will become smarter and it will help you more, if you need that.
The more you use the process, the smarter Blimp gets.
Trello has an extra level of nesting (Board -> List -> Card -> Checklist), shows more structure without scrolling, and tends to break a lot.
Importer is broken.
sad trombone
This made me happy. Cool to see a Puerto Rican startup on the front page of HN.
Are there other notable PR startups that I might not know about?
http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/01/08/startups-of-puerto-rico-...
I suspect that response is going to take a while.
Sweet! automated micro-management!
Honestly I like a few things in concept with Blimp, but one of the things I tend to hate about most "Methodologies" is when they're not flexible to the realties of your team.
That's why we made Blimp in such a way that if you don't want to use the methodology you don't have to and you'll get a very nice task management app. But if you learn the simple process and use it, the app will become smarter and it will help you more, if you need that.
The more you use the process, the smarter Blimp gets.