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Re: Linear.app

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Post by thomaspaulmann »

aliqot wrote: post #10

Can anybody from Ramp, Loom, Vercel, Descript, Cash App, Raycast, Mercury, Retool, Alan, Arc, OpenSea or Pitch chime in on their experience with Linear and the scope of which they use it for their apps?

Co-founder of Raycast here. We've been using Linear since the beginning when it was only two of us. We're 16, and the app has become integral to our workflows. In a small company, it's crucial to be aligned. We use Linear to spec out our work and build up momentum. We ship an update of Raycast every two weeks and use cycles and projects to ensure we keep the release schedule.

I love the speed of the app. The real-time sync and keyboard shortcuts guarantee fast interactions. We surround ourselves with the best tools to raise the bar of what everybody expects from software. It helps us to build better software, and Linear is an app (and website) that pushes our understanding of quality forward.

Re: Linear.app

#112

Post by freefaler »

Arcanum-XIII wrote: post #87
aetherspawn wrote: post #63

OK, we are firmware developers who use JIRA in a very advanced way with our clients, and we gave it a go and I just came back here to give the team some feedback because no doubt they are watching this very closely. The killer missing feature for us is that we can't define different issue types. For example, we would typically have issue types like "Requirement", "Bug", "Signal", etc. with different icons and use chi…

I honestly despise Confluence. Jira is kind of OK if you don't create overly complex workflow (they will fail) and avoid using it as a documentation tool (it's not versioned, editing tool are lacking, adding content is quite limited, updating content while fighting field is not fun and finding back the last CR related to a feature is hell). But Confluence is the worst Wiki I've ever used. It's editor is obnoxious, it…

I've been using Confulence for a long time in all my companies. It's not the best product for sure. However, regarding: 1) slowness - it's faster selfhosted than their shitty cloud solution 2) editor - one of the best features, not replicated anywhere is their macro collection. I'd prefer markdown, but dynamic object embedded in our specs/documentation is a very useful feature. Also for non-technical people their editor even in current state is easier than other non-WYSIWYG editors for sure.

There is a place for a competitor to Confluence, because the need is still there. Help non-technical people capture and buld documents self-hosted inside your firewall with dynamic elements.

Atlassian's decision to dump the self-hosted version in 2024 will create the niche for all the companies that would want to migrate away. They just got greedy and got too big, went public, founders cached out and now it's the hired managers playground.

Re: Linear.app

#113

Post by joenot443 »

vebra wrote: post #98

I've tried it recently, since it markets itself as being performant, and native-like performance is what other popular tools like Jira or Trello miss. I want to say upfront that 50ms user interactions is not what I would consider "breathtakingly fast" as the website claims. It's much better than the tools mentioned above, but doesn't really cut it for me. Maybe I'm old, but I see lots of unnecessary animations, that…

50ms isn't instantaneous, but when you compare it to the 500ms-2s waits you see in Jira sometimes, it feels really damn fast. I think Linear's headed in the right direction, even if their marketing copy isn't perfect

Re: Linear.app

#114

Post by viraptor »

So I tried to figure out what platforms the app is available for... But it's not on the website. The download page just tells me it's not available for my current system (Android).

Re: Linear.app

#115

Post by lomz »

I tried to convince my team to jump ship to Linear from ClickUp. Initially, we thought that ClickUp would be better than Jira, but ClickUp's horrible sync ends up making it slower than Jira since you're performing operations over and over again until they stick. ClickUp's strategy seems to be to churn out half baked features to get a really impressive feature comparison list to hide under a mountain of tech debt (that's how they got us during our trial, at least).

I used Linear by myself until the free-tier issue limit was used up. I can confidently say it worked great for me (the integrations and built in GitHub automation were killer for me, and worked with 0 config out of the box). However, I had trouble getting my PM on board because she was concerned that Linear was a great issue tracking tool, but we'd be losing too many capabilities from ClickUp. Personally, I'd rather have a targeted tool that does one thing extremely well rather than a tool that does 10 things poorly.

Re: Linear.app

#116

Post by solardev »

aetherspawn wrote: post #63

OK, we are firmware developers who use JIRA in a very advanced way with our clients, and we gave it a go and I just came back here to give the team some feedback because no doubt they are watching this very closely. The killer missing feature for us is that we can't define different issue types. For example, we would typically have issue types like "Requirement", "Bug", "Signal", etc. with different icons and use chi…

This is the sort of workflow that makes Jira suck... so much mental capacity is wasted on categorization rather than coding. It simultaneously tries to be an issue tracker and a project manager and each team reinvents their own preferred workflow while littering the shared Jira graveyard with a bunch of dead fields and labels and screens and such.

Linear does the opposite, adding rails so you can't go wild and reinvent complex processes. Thank god.

Re: Linear.app

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Post by solardev »

aetherspawn wrote: post #94
lmm wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The killer missing feature for us is that we can't define different issue types. For example, we would typically have issue types like "Requirement", "Bug", "Signal", etc. with different icons and use child/parent hierarchies to sort these in a tree with this hierarchy: L1 high-level business requirement, L2 technical breakdown stories, L3 very specific requirement/bug/signal. Support for this kind of overcomplex u…

You'd better hope that enough people need a very barebones tracker (thousands of barebone trackers exist) enough to pay for it and keep it alive. Or you can implement the "overcomplex use case"(s) and create a product that is actually more useful than those other thousand of issue trackers built-in to tools that people already use.

Hell no. If you want jira, use Jira. Linear is better specifically because it's not Jira and doesn't try to be.

A huge part of its appeal is that it actively prevents workflows like yours. On purpose.

Re: Linear.app

#118

Post by solardev »

viraptor wrote: post #114

So I tried to figure out what platforms the app is available for... But it's not on the website. The download page just tells me it's not available for my current system (Android).

It's just a web app, isn't it?

Re: Linear.app

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Post by dbbk »

aetherspawn wrote: post #63

OK, we are firmware developers who use JIRA in a very advanced way with our clients, and we gave it a go and I just came back here to give the team some feedback because no doubt they are watching this very closely. The killer missing feature for us is that we can't define different issue types. For example, we would typically have issue types like "Requirement", "Bug", "Signal", etc. with different icons and use chi…

On the Confluence note, they do have docs support: https://linear.app/docs/project-documents

Re: Linear.app

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Post by aliqot »

thomaspaulmann wrote: post #111
aliqot wrote: post #10

Can anybody from Ramp, Loom, Vercel, Descript, Cash App, Raycast, Mercury, Retool, Alan, Arc, OpenSea or Pitch chime in on their experience with Linear and the scope of which they use it for their apps?

Co-founder of Raycast here. We've been using Linear since the beginning when it was only two of us. We're 16, and the app has become integral to our workflows. In a small company, it's crucial to be aligned. We use Linear to spec out our work and build up momentum. We ship an update of Raycast every two weeks and use cycles and projects to ensure we keep the release schedule. I love the speed of the app. The real-tim…

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