Linear
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Purpose-built for planning and building products
Karri Saarinen
Linear — Streamlined issue tracking for software teams
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At Linear, we are creating software for teams who want to build high quality products. Linear helps to streamline your team’s software projects, sprints and tasks. Integrated with Github, Gitlab, Figma and Slack. On MacOS, Web and Mobile.
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Mike Bracco
@karrisaarinen - Small signup suggestion. In the bold string that displays the email the user entered on signup (non-Google flow), I'd exclude the period at the end. There was a slight delay in email arriving so I resubmitted email again b/c I thought I accidently included a period in the email, causing the email not to arrive.
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
@bracco Thanks! We got some other reports as well that the emails are taking a while so we are investigating it at the moment. Can you email us with your email at hello@linear.app so we can debug it?
Alagu
Have been using Linear at Peoplebox for a while. One of the best designed products ever seen. Their product is so fast that they decided not to build a 'loading gif' anywhere 😊 Kudos to Karri, Jori and the team!
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
This looks gorgeous. And it's an issue-tracking app! 🤯
Nick Noble
My team tested Linear and it's honestly what's been missing from development workflows for years. It is the antithesis to Jira in all the right ways – opinionated instead of needing miles of configuration, fast AF, and friendly to engineers and POs alike. Teammates compared writing posts to writing on Medium. People who previously never really clicked with Agile saw the visual cycles and "got it" immediately. Data points that were previously somewhat of a heap suddenly became clear and useful. Highly recommend, especially to teams that (1) have a lot of tasks and (2) are considering / actively practicing scrum, but found Jira too intimidating. This is *the* tool that doesn't get in the way.
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
@nickisnoble Thank you for sharing! This is great feedback to share and something we've been striving for. Many these kind tools can feel really overwhelming to the team members so we want to make it as intuitive as possible but allow learning and adding power to the tool over time.
Femi Awomosu
We’ve been using Linear for ~7 months, it’s honestly a breath of fresh air. They’ve made issue tracking and getting work done fun.
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
@femiaw Thank you! This what want to hear. We want people to enjoy their tools and feel like the a drag for energy or productivity
Mattan Ingram
Easily the best issue tracking tool I have ever used. Great UX, clean design, and a very responsive team to feature requests and bug reports. Also really easy to migrate to from other tools.
Jeff Gardner
We've been using Linear from the beginning at Graphy and it's been such an amazing tool for issue tracking. It's SOO fast, and the keyboard shortcuts (with command menu) make creating and managing those issues quick too. Well done @karrisaarinen and team!
Callum Flack
After 6 months using Linear, it is my favourite work app. This is high praise from a highly-skeptical-about-productivity, ex-perfectionist-note-taker.
Tony Vincent
We've been using Linear and loving it for months now. Super solid, thoughtfully designed, high quality. @karrisaarinen congrats to you and the team.
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
@tonydevincenzi Thank you Tony! :)
Darshan Gajara
Been using it for a while company-wide at GraphCMS and absolutely love it. Such nice and considerate design 👌
Jori Lallo
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Maker
@weirdowizard Thanks Darshan for being a user 🙏
Nils Paajanen
We switched to Linear a few months ago and the whole team loves it. Excellent product 👍
Tuomas Artman
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Maker
@_nippe Nice! Didn't realize we had Singa in the house!
Daniel Dinh
We have a product crush on Linear. It definitely is part of the tools that spark delight and where you can't imagine going back to the old ways.
Jori Lallo
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Maker
@beinglong ❤️
Mehdi Izemmour
Been testing if for the past 4 weeks, love it so far!
David Newell
We've been using Linear for a while now and recently committed to a full year :) It's the perfect mix of issue tracking & project management software we need in our small team of three. Congrats on the product team
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
@davidnewell95 Amazing to hear :)
Robert Bye
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We've been trialling Linear on one of our project teams for the last 3 months (used to use Jira), and it's sped up workflows for product managers drastically. Simple tasks like duplicating and reassigning tickets can take 75% less time. Day to day I've found myself going from 2+ hours in Jira a day, to <1hr in Linear a day. This makes a huge difference as product management shouldn't be about managing tickets, it should be able launching features the better your product and help users. Plus I actually love jumping into Linear to catch up on things, whereas Jira genuinely Brough anxiety. Happy to answer any questions people may have.
madhu_
Have there been any users who repurpose Linear to be a task management app, with any success?
Andrew Underwood
Nice work, keep it up! Our team have been using Linear for ~6 months and it's been smooth as! Devs / designers and PMs are all loving it. Our favourite aspects of Linear: - Snappy responses to feedback - Clean UI - Seamless web to client updates (sockets) - Hotkeys - Opinionated
Jori Lallo
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Maker
@andrunder I'm glad you enjoy Linear. We have quite a lot of improvements in the pipeline now that the launch is almost behind us. Back to building 👨‍💻
Jaap Frolich
We've been using Linear for nearly 9 months now, and it has been amazing for the small team we work with in our startup. I don't like the admin of issue trackers and this thing just has been lightning fast, and been a great fit for our workflow! Both me and my non-engineering co-founder love it!
Vit Mee
Been using Linear for during beta time. One of the sexiest UI / UX across productivity tools!
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
Hey everyone! Excited to be opening Linear access for all and to share this with the Product Hunt community! We built Linear as we’re frustrated the practices and the available tools when it came to managing software projects. We wanted to re-envision a new standard for creating and maintaining software and share our thinking and tooling with all companies. Our vision is to create a more enjoyable and efficient way to manage software development. The past year, we've been refining the product with hundreds of companies in our private beta. On the product side of things, we streamlined the UI and UX to a level you would expect from a professional tool. We made everything instant–there is no loading or waiting in Linear. Everything is synced to the client, which also means Linear works offline both on the macOS app and on the browser. In addition to the product, we also want to think about practices we have when it comes to building software. The things we do but don't actually help us build. As many of us transition to the remote age, we see new opportunities for ways of doing things and lightweight ways for guidance and forming habits become increasing important. Real change from tools come when it creates new habits and changes our behaviors. We hope you join the Linear community and help us refine how software development is done. Our announcement post: https://medium.com/linear-app/pr...
Karri Saarinen
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Maker
I'm also happy to answers questions from the community around designing or building products and companies. We have been building the product initially with 3 people (1 designer, 2 eng) and team of 7 you see listed here. We also started Linear as fully distributed company. Our team is located in California, New York and Finland.