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Re: Linear.app

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Post by kirso »

warent wrote: post #22
kumarvvr wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not obvious at first sight.

Being contrarian about landing pages is just a popular HN meme at this point... Front and center: Streamline issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. A huge image of a board that looks similar to JIRA. Then scroll down slightly. Front and center: Built for your keyboard - Fly through your tasks with rapid-fire keyboard shortcuts for everything.

When people say contrarian, it means it became mainstream :)

For every single post of product announcement there is a comment bitching about `value prop`. I agree sometimes marketing messages are terribly written. Look at the Obsidian thread from yesterday. Similar complaints.

However... all it takes is just to scroll. There is a screenshot which takes 60% of the homepage screen that shows an issue tracker.

Cmon folks, we can do better.

Re: Linear.app

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Post by its_notion »

nemothekid wrote: post #45

Can't speak for other teams who may have advanced, complex workflows but we migrated from JIRA to Linear for our small team, and haven't looked back. Just the simple fact that it feels like we can store and reference information from a ticket without spending 10 minutes waiting for it to load is a killer feature to me.

I stopped using Jira years ago, and stopped hiring people, and work with one other full time person, making a complex software product, and I feel like I accomplish 2x as much as I used to with much more value, at far lower cost.

Re: Linear.app

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Post by wmf »

tflinton wrote: post #42

Reading through the comments it appears more than 10 employees of linear are dominating 33 comments. Sorta seems like this is marketing at its sneakiest.

It's a really easy mistake to make so I don't blame them. When people are talking about your product it's instinctive to jump in; it takes a lot of effort to not dominate the conversation.

Re: Linear.app

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Post by [deleted] »

kumarvvr wrote: post #9

What is this product anyway? > "Linear is a tool to remove barriers. Powerful yet simple to use, it helps you to plan ahead, make better decisions and execute faster. You don’t have to come up with best practices for how to use Linear — we already built them directly into the product." So much weasel words. "tool to remove barriers", "plan ahead, make better decision and execute faster". Going a bit deep into the fea…

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Re: Linear.app

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Post by [deleted] »

tflinton wrote: post #42

Reading through the comments it appears more than 10 employees of linear are dominating 33 comments. Sorta seems like this is marketing at its sneakiest.

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Re: Linear.app

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Post by kevinma »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #19

This seems like a really nice tool. I'm quite happy with some of the "older" tools I'm still using: Shortcut for project management at my company, Trello for personal todo lists, and Evernote for notes. Trying to stick to the philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" when it comes to all these new tools and services. I think Shortcut and Trello are still great tools and I'm not in a hurry to replace them. But L…

Evernote is a classic example of destroying an app by using Electron.

Re: Linear.app

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Post by CPLNTN »

xwowsersx wrote: post #32

Anyone using linear without the rest of their team adopting it yet? Obviously the full benefits will only be realized when everyone is using it, but I'm still curious to hear if people are benefitting from using it to manage their own work.

I work with two long term clients (one has two projects going on, the other three), plus I have my own personal projects. Linear has become a vital part of my workflow. The first thing is that splitting tasks by teams (client 1, client 2, and me) and then by project for each team allows me to do some neat stuff:

1. I have a global view, where i can see the status of each single ticket. I use this because when I’m selecting my next task. I don’t know if I’m gonna choose something from client 1, client 2, or my personal project

2. I have a “bug” view that aggregates every task with a bug label, it’s the first thing I check when selecting a new task, same reason of .1

3. I have a view for each client, that aggregates the tasks from every project of that client. I use this when I’m doing a call with the client and I have to update them on the status of each project

Before Linear I was using multiple Trello boards and then using a power up to sync all of them in multiple aggregation board, to essentially replicate the same workflow. Also, it feels more native then trello, it’s quicker than Jira and the key lard shortcut are super handy when I’m creating a lot of tasks, since I have to duplicate each task from the client ticketing system.

Re: Linear.app

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Post by kajaktum »

One thing that I hated when I used to use Confluence is the amount of loading it does every, single, time I navigate to any page. I can't help but feel the pain of my browser downloading and loading the same thing over and over and over again every day. Please, what is wrong simple user interface like we have here in HN?

Re: Linear.app

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Post by EamonnMR »

coreyoconnor wrote: post #46
mayoff wrote: post #31

I guess some people spend so much time in Jira or whatever that they want keyboard shortcuts for everything? My company uses Jira and I'm a developer and I've never felt like “oh my god I'm wasting so much time mousing around in Jira”.

I use Jira a lot and... there are keyboard shortcuts. There are keyboard shortcuts for Confluence. I did not know about the jira shortcuts until recently. Not really a huge deal for me. Seems like linear's are definitely better but shrug . Keyboard shortcuts are not the source of my issues (ha!) with issue trackers. Confluence shortcuts tho. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in my company that knows them haha. Which s…

Jira used to aggressively interpret keyboard input as a stream of hotkeys which would result in entropy being introduced into your board. Latest redesign fixed that, but at the cost of being criminally slow.
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