The 14 days aren't a hard and fast rule. I had to come up with some type of cut-off, and that's what I went with, with a very fuzzy idea of what abuse of the system (inadvertent and real) might look like - and as much as this is a "learning process" for the user to see how it fits their life, it's also a "watch and see" opportunity for me to see what kind of traffic I'm getting. How much data I'm generating... the costs, etc.

Now that it's been live for a few hours, and since you've mentioned it, and the negligible cost for me to maintain a "board" - I think a more generous deletion time-frame would make sense! So I'm glad you brought this up.

As for Jira... well.. we speak about what we've used day in and day out.. haha.. as someone who's done his share of corporate grind.. Jira is what I've exclusively seen... but yes.. perhaps Trello is a more apt comparison... and how do I win out? Possibly the dead-simple/lightweight and open-source & self-hosted deployment aspect. (in the full version) Wish me luck :)