Trellis was still one of the contenders, so, after all of these sessions, and all of this brain-storming, and the many hundreds of suggestions, Michael just decided to start playing with variations on Trellis. He came up with a number of them, and then looked for domains he could buy. Trello.com happened to be one of the domains he could get for a reasonable amount of money and we decided it sounded good. We had made a grand wandering journey all the way from Trellis to Trello. That’s like leaving New Jersey and getting to New York by way of Kinshasa. But here we are.
Source: blog.fogcreek.com
