Productized service

Custom Trello Power-Ups — built, deployed, and published

We design and build your Power-Up, deploy it to production, and get it approved in the Trello App Directory — one written scope and one number, with no hourly billing and no change orders.

$5,000 – $15,000

depending on scope · 4–6 weeks from kickoff to launch

Book a scoping call

We reply within 48 hours with feasibility, a scope, and a price. The call is free and there is nothing to sign.

💰One price, agreed up front
📆4–6 weeks to launch
🚀Deployed live, not handed over as code
10+ shipped through App Directory review

What we do

Custom Power-Up development is the middle of the job, not all of it. We take it from an idea on a call to something your team — or your customers — can install from Trello.

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Custom Power-Up development

A Power-Up built around how your team actually works — card badges, board buttons, custom fields, reporting views, automation — on the same Trello framework our own 10 Power-Ups run on.

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Integrations and backends

Stripe, Slack, Google Sheets, Jira, HubSpot, or the internal API nobody outside your company has ever heard of. We build the backend, the sync, and the auth that keeps them talking.

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Deployment, not a handover of files

We ship it to production ourselves: hosting provisioned, domain and SSL wired up, secrets configured, monitoring on. You get a working URL, not a zip file and a README wishing you luck.

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App Directory publishing

We prepare the listing, icons and screenshots, submit to Atlassian, and answer the review feedback until it is approved and public. We have been through that review 10 times with our own Power-Ups.

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Customising a Power-Up we already sell

Any of our 10 Power-Ups can be extended, rebranded, or deployed privately for your workspace alone. Starting from something that already works is the cheapest route to what you want, and often the fastest.

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Rescue and migration work

Inherited a Power-Up from a developer who has gone quiet, or stuck on a framework Atlassian is deprecating? We take over existing codebases and migrate them, including to Forge.

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Maintenance after launch

Trello changes its platform, your business changes its mind, and dependencies rot regardless. Optional monthly retainers keep the thing you paid for working after we leave.

Three scopes, three prices

Pick the row that sounds like your project. The scoping call confirms which one it really is — and if it is smaller than all three, we will say so rather than sell you the middle one.

Essential

$5,000

fixed price · 4 weeks

One Power-Up that does one job well, storing everything inside Trello so there is no server for you to run.

  • Up to three Trello capabilities — card badges, card back section, board button, card buttons
  • Data stored on the card and board itself, so nothing to host and nothing to secure
  • Your branding: icons, colours, and the App Directory listing copy
  • Light mode, dark mode, web and mobile, tested on all four
  • Source code and deployment handed over to your accounts
Scope a Essential build
Most chosen

Integrated

$9,500

fixed price · 5 weeks

Everything in Essential, plus a hosted backend and a live connection to one system you already run on.

  • Everything in Essential
  • Hosted backend — API, database, and scheduled jobs
  • One integration: Stripe, Slack, Google Sheets, Jira, or your own internal API
  • Trello OAuth and webhooks, so both sides stay in sync without anyone pressing refresh
  • A staging workspace your team can break before your customers can
Scope a Integrated build

Commercial

$15,000

fixed price · 6 weeks

A Power-Up you can sell. Billing, admin, and the App Directory submission are part of the scope, not a later project.

  • Everything in Integrated
  • Stripe subscriptions — trials, plans, upgrades, and a self-serve customer portal
  • Up to three integrations
  • Admin dashboard with usage and revenue reporting
  • Marketing landing page, plus we run the App Directory submission end to end
Scope a Commercial build

Or start from one of ours

You do not always need something built from nothing. All 10 of our Power-Ups can be extended, rebranded, or privately deployed for your workspace — and starting from software that already works and already passed Atlassian's review is faster and cheaper than starting from an empty repository.

Pick the one you already use

What people ask us to change

  • An extra field, column, or calculation that your team needs and the public version does not have
  • A custom export format — your accounting system, your ERP, your reporting template
  • Your own branding, icons, and workspace-only listing instead of ours
  • A private deployment locked to your workspace, running on your own infrastructure
  • Wiring it into an internal system so the data stops being copied by hand
  • Data residency, SSO, or audit requirements your security team has put in writing

Customisations are quoted exactly the same way as a from-scratch build — one written scope, one price, one date — and usually land well below the Essential tier because most of the work already exists.

Tell us which one and what it should do

In every engagement, at every price

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A written scope before any code

Every screen, every capability, every integration, agreed in writing. That document is what the fixed price is fixed against — it is the reason we can quote one at all.

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A working demo every week

You review software running in a real Trello workspace, not a status report. If it is going the wrong way you find out in week one, not week five.

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You own everything

Source code, repositories, and infrastructure live in your accounts from day one. No license back to us, no equity, no revenue share, no hostage hosting.

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30 days of fixes after launch

Anything that does not behave the way the scope says it should is our problem to fix, free, for a full month after you go live.

From first call to live Power-Up

1

Day 0

Scoping call

A 45-minute call, free, about what the Power-Up has to do and who has to use it.

2

Within 48 hours

Scope and fixed quote

A written scope, a delivery date, and one price. Say no and you owe us nothing.

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Weeks 1–5

Build, demoed weekly

Working software in your Trello workspace at the end of every week, from the first one.

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Week 4–6

Deploy, publish, hand over

We put it live on your infrastructure, submit it to the App Directory, and walk your team through running it.

We deploy it and launch it — you do not get a zip file

Plenty of agencies finish at “the code is done”, which leaves the hardest week of the project on your desk. Delivery here means the Power-Up is running in production, installable from Trello, and something your own team can redeploy without us.

  • Production hosting provisioned in your cloud account — Vercel, AWS, GCP, or wherever your team already operates
  • Custom domain, SSL, and the Trello iframe connector URLs all configured and verified
  • Environment variables, secrets, and the database set up and documented, not left as placeholders
  • A deploy pipeline so your next change goes live by pushing to a branch, with no ritual to remember
  • Error tracking and uptime alerts wired to whoever is on call, from day one
  • Trello App Directory submission handled end to end — listing copy, icons, screenshots, and the review back-and-forth
  • A recorded handover session and a written runbook covering how to deploy, roll back, and debug it

What a fixed price does not mean

  • Work you think of mid-build becomes a second fixed-price phase with its own quote. It does not become an argument, and it does not quietly consume the first one.
  • Native mobile apps, Confluence and Jira Service Management apps, and Forge migrations are all things we build and deploy — they are just quoted separately, because they do not fit these three prices.
  • Hosting, Stripe fees, and any third-party API costs are billed to your accounts at cost. We never mark them up.
  • If the build runs past 6 weeks, the price still does not move. An overrun is our cost, which is precisely why we scope carefully before quoting.

Before you book the call

What exactly is fixed about a fixed price?+

Both the price and the delivery date. You agree a written scope, we quote one number between $5,000 and $15,000 and one date between 4 and 6 weeks out, and neither changes because the work turned out harder than we expected. There is no hourly rate, so there is no incentive for us to be slow.

What happens if we want to change the scope halfway through?+

You get a quote for the change as a second phase, with its own fixed price and its own date, and you decide whether it is worth it. The original build keeps its original price and lands on its original date either way.

Do you build Atlassian apps other than Trello Power-Ups?+

Yes — Jira and Confluence apps on both Forge and Connect, quoted exactly the same way: fixed scope, fixed price, fixed date. Tell us what you need on the scoping call and the quote will cover it.

Can you customise one of your existing Power-Ups instead of building something new?+

Yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Every one of our 10 Power-Ups can be extended with the fields, exports, or integrations you need, rebranded as yours, or deployed privately so only your workspace can install it. Because the foundation already exists and has already passed Atlassian's review, these land well below the Essential tier and take a fraction of the time. Tell us which one and what it is missing.

Do you deploy it for us, or just hand over the code?+

We deploy it. Hosting is provisioned, the domain and SSL are configured, secrets and the database are set up, monitoring is switched on, and the Power-Up is live and installable before we call the project finished. Handing a client a repository and calling that delivery is the most common way these projects quietly fail, and we do not do it.

Whose servers does it run on?+

Yours. We provision production inside your own cloud account — Vercel, AWS, GCP, whatever your team already uses — so you keep the keys, the billing relationship, and the ability to fire us without an outage. If you have no preference and no cloud account, we will recommend the cheapest option that fits and set it up with you.

Will you get it published in the Trello App Directory?+

Yes, end to end: listing copy, icons, screenshots, the submission itself, and the replies to Atlassian's review feedback until it is approved. We have taken 10 Power-Ups of our own through that review, so we know what it rejects before you write it.

What happens after launch — are we on our own?+

Not immediately: 30 days of bug fixes are included at every price. After that, an optional monthly retainer covers platform changes, dependency updates, and small feature work. Plenty of clients take the code and run it themselves instead, and that is a perfectly good outcome too.

Who owns the code when it is finished?+

You do, completely. The repository and the hosting live in your accounts throughout the build, not just at handover, and we retain no license to anything we write for you.

What do you need from us during the build?+

An admin on the Trello workspace, one person who can make decisions at the weekly demo, and credentials for anything we are integrating with. Roughly an hour of your week — the rest of it is ours.

How do payments work?+

Half to start, half on delivery, invoiced directly. The Commercial tier can be split across three milestones instead if that is easier to get signed off.

Can you take over a Power-Up somebody else built?+

Often, yes. We will read the code first and tell you honestly whether extending it or rebuilding it is cheaper — sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need us at all.

Why should we believe the estimate?+

Because we have shipped 10 Power-Ups of our own through the Trello App Directory review process, and we are quoting the same work we already do every week. Client builds are not listed on this site, so that number is the floor rather than the total.

Tell us what you need built

Four questions — enough for us to come back with a scope and a fixed price, not a request for another meeting. Prefer email? Write to smallpowerup@gmail.com.

We reply within 48 hours with feasibility and a rough estimate. No obligation.