My friends at Kaleidos, developers of Taiga.io have now released their new free open source design tool to create beautiful user interfaces in collaboration with cross-domain teams.
Looks like it has cool components, libraries and other design systems support plus Native SVG!
Might need to give Figma a rest for a while and give this a spin.
New 1.10 release out today with Git-Hub like search of public projects. With 100,000+ users and nearly as many projects activated the community at Taiga is growing quickly.
I can sympathize with folks unhappy with their project management tools. My team and I went one step further and tried to build the tool we weren't able to find out there, htt://taiga.io.
We think our free, agile, open source tool has satisfied people. We're 1 year into it, gotten 100,000 registered users, and have been highlighted as one of the top 10 open source tools of 2014 and won the 2015 most valuable agile tool from the agile awards.
Anyone interested can reach out to us at Taiga.io, we've built an Open Source, Free agile project management tool. We were named lat year as one of 2014's top Open Source Tools by opensource.com (http://taiga.io) and our Github repo is here: https://github.com/taigaio.
Hi Taiga here. Thanks for your comments. We'll certainly talk about your thoughts seriously on our next monday morning developer team meeting. Please do loo at our code base (it's all on GitHub) would love to see what you think. Thanks.
Thx for taking this seriously. I guess my words were a bit harsh (which earned me a downvote, probably righfully so). My critique still stands though.
I created a test account on taiga.io. It allowed me to use an unsafe, short password.
Looking at the UX/UI I can only reiterate; it is highly important that you work on the design (details matter) . If you can't argue why a design element is presently on the screen, remove it. Only keep what is needed.
IMHO https://waffle.io is a great example what is possible. Same as trello. Maybe it makes sense to discard the current UI desgin completely, and work with something bootstrapped first.
Your company's website, kaleidos.net, is down with an "internal server error".
I'm curious about companies established in Spain because I'm a Spaniard that moved to Germany 14 years ago and since becoming a freelancer three yeas ago I've considered moving back there, but each time I take a close look I get discouraged.
In the page footer it says that Taiga is an LLC. Does it mean that you established it in the UK?
How's your experience running such a business in Spain? Do you think it impacts your image wrt. reliability or quality in comparison with companies in other countries?
Hi. You are right, Spain is not the most agile place to set up a company. We keep hoping that the government will take a genuine look at all the bureaucratic barriers and tear them down. But we're not holding our breath. Taiga is a US Limited Liability Company (which took 20 min and $300 to set up).
Taiga.io hit #1 on @HackerNewsYCBot for a while today (thanks HN!). Traffic up 100x. I was dumb enough to ask our developers if we could handle it. This is what they sent back
Each little "ball" is a request to the server
On the left: the IP numbers from the users connecting around the world
To the right: The url's being served up
In the center: The "static calls being serviced by our front end
The brightness represents the speed with which the code written by our awesome developers delivers data (aided of course the great hardware)
Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer!
Nice video, haven't seen Logstalgia in a while! At first I didn't think the traffic looked that heavy but comparing the time and requests, quite decent numbers (~6600 hits in ~2 minutes).
Curious about why. I'd understand a social stigma against ad-based redirection services, but does that translate into a frown against all shorteners somehow? Or is there some other cause?
Some of these aren't properties exclusive to redirection sites... but I'll readily admit they're very much standard features there, while mostly not too common elsewhere.
Cool visualization! But the top 50% of that (which seems to be the most dense) could have been completely avoided if you just slapped a CloudFront instance in front of it.
I ended up with an estimated 600USD/month bill ... so what would they gain by complicating their architecture when they're already able to handle the traffic?
And what guestimates would those be? I doubt they are serving 10TB in static files per month.
If adding a CDN to your architecture is too much complication then I would definitely not want to use your product for my business. It's literally a question of pointing CloudFront to your server, and substituting the CloudFront assigned domain in for static assets.
Also, from what I can tell, they aren't handling the traffic. I have tried numerous times to use the "Open Live Instance" link and it does not work.
Hi, the link should say (for now) "Almost ready" when you hover. We will have that ready soon (soon = days).
We don't have problems with adding a CDN at all. We do that a lot for many other projects. It's just a matter of this "stealth launch of Taiga" going out of control, we didn't need a CDN for a 1 core + 1 GB RAM virtual machine, which is what is actually handling all the traffic. Having said that, expect a CDN in place next week.
Hi, thanks. I didn't mean to indicate you weren't capable of adding a CDN. I was just providing a counter to the "why complicate the architecture" argument.
Thanks for the explanation of the "Almost Ready" message. I do see that, however I took it to mean that an instance was being spun up (as I waited). Might want to change that to "Coming Soon" or similar.
1gb/week with 60% traffic to the US, average 20kb size with 1000 reset requests/month. I'd love to hear some more realistic estimates. And while (server/service) price is far from the most important consideration, it sounds like they manage to stay way under 50 usd/month in hosting currently. So as anything over 30/month would be a considerable (relative) increase. Add to that doubling? the management overhead from, say, an hour a week to two -- and they'd need to see some clear benefits? And what are those?
As for "open live instance, it says "ready soon" for me - but perhaps that is because they didn't, as you say, handle the traffic after all?
You are actually seeing the dedicated IP "custom ssl certificate" charge ($600/month). Check the cost with and without that option. I just used your exact numbers and the monthly cost is $0.73 without that.
Note that doesn't mean you cannot serve your resources over HTTPS. It just means you cannot alias something like "cdn.yoursite.com" to the cloudfront cdn, you will need to use the cloudfront https url.
You only need to pay the $600/month if you need to support clients older than IE7. You can use the SNI option instead which is "free" (relative to the rest of the costs associated with a CFD).
I did think it came out oddly high -- I also didn't chceck ssl/dedicated ip... I think. Maybe the calculator helpfully updated itself with more "reasonable" settings... ;-)
[edit: yep, was the ssl cert thing. Now I end up with 0.00 USD/Month, which certainly isn't an unbearable expense...]
