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Linear – A fast issue tracker

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Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

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Post by tyre »

We've been using Linear for a couple months. It's kind of like Superhuman in that the primary benefit is hotkeys. Otherwise it is an issue tracker.

I think the reason we see a steady stream of new issue trackers is that teams are trying to fix with software what are people problems.

New issue trackers feel faster for the same reason switching browsers tends to feel faster—you're getting rid of all of the crap you piled up in the old one. Don't migrate your backlog, start with only a couple engineers in a new issue tracker, and suddenly, wow!, this new tool is so much better!

But I don't think it really solves the problem. For most organizations, tracking tickets is a solved (by many products) problem. Starting with a new tool has the appearance of making things better, but leads to the same place. The problem is not the tool, it's the structure of the organization.

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

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Post by _jordan »

I've been playing around with this casually for a few weeks and am quite impressed. It's a definite improvement over Jira in simplicity and performance, but is missing quite a few features still. But still, it's my preference. I have started to appreciate light, fast, minimalist interfaces much more over time.

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Post by jorde »

saagarjha wrote: post #2

Let me ask the inevitable question: Electron?

Yes, we're a small team and as we're building Linear for both the web and desktop, it was the obvious choice at least at this stage. It's essentially the same app and experience on both but desktop provides better notifications and faster "in and out" of the app experience - it's important for us that Linear is there when you need it and doesn't get on the way.

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

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Post by enra »

Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have.

We built Linear as we’re frustrated the practices and the available tools when it came to managing software projects.

On the product, we especially tackled the performance problem. Everything is synced to the client and we sync just delta packages between the cloud and client as changes happen. This way all actions a happen instantly and navigating around the app is really fast. And the app works offline too.

We also streamlined the UI and UX, overall we are rethinking what comes after agile for software development. I think many teams looking for something simple to run their teams.

Our announcement post: https://medium.com/linear-app/practices-for-building-linear-...

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