Ryan Kowalski
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★★★★★
Reliability was actually the thing I watched most closely after we committed to Trello. We'd burned ourselves before with a tool that went down during crunch weeks, so I spent the first few months almost paranoid about uptime. Two years in, I can say Trello has been genuinely solid. I can count on one hand the times I noticed a service disruption, and none of them lasted long enough to derail a sprint. For a growing team where everyone is bouncing between boards constantly, that kind of consistency matters more than any flashy feature.
The bug side of things has been mostly fine. Cards occasionally lose their position after a drag-and-drop, and I've seen checklist items flicker back to unchecked after saving, which is annoying when you're trying to close out a task with five people watching. It's minor, but it happens often enough that my dev team now double-checks anything they mark complete. Atlassian does push fixes regularly, and their status page is honest about incidents, which I respect. They don't try to hide when something is wrong.
For a startup at our stage, ten to forty-odd people depending on the same boards daily, Trello mostly holds up the way you need a foundation to hold up. The free tier is generous enough to get started, and the paid plan feels reasonable for what you get. If you're evaluating this for a team that's scaling fast and needs something that won't randomly fall over on a deadline, Trello is a safer bet than I expected it to be. Just keep an eye on those checklist bugs.
