Use.fyi publishes analyses of productivity and collaboration software companies, such as Zoom, Notion, Evernote, and Chrome, plus remote work pieces.
HN commenters mostly bring it up when comparing similar products and pointing to it as a close match to other tools.
A contemporary (to the exit) account certainly thought Trello underperformed, business model wise (was very complimentary of the tech stack, though)[1]. I've never worked in the B2C space so I can't comment on whether freemium was a better option, but I did spend a few years in B2B/SMB SaaS space and the business I worked for looked very different from Trello and was more successful, financially (our tech stack was almost certainly worse).
[1]: https://usefyi.com/trello-history/
The positioning is confusing, but could be a potential FYI[1] competitor. Their goal is to provide unified search across Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive, etc which businesses would happily pay for.
Or perhaps a vertical search engine for B2B...
If it is truly a general B2C search engine play, I think ignoring DDG as a datapoint is a misstep.
[1] https://usefyi.com/
This seems like the closest fit: https://usefyi.com/. (at least judging from the landing page - haven't actually used it myself)
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Looks good, this reminds me of https://usefyi.com/, any difference between the two?
roadmaps : https://usefyi.com/templates/roadmap-templates/