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Linear
Company blog · linear.app · on HN as tommoorproductivitystartups
Linear is the company blog at linear.app, writing about productivity and startups. Since 2019, 202 different Hacker News readers have linked it 310 times, most often “Linear: Fast Issue Tracking”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Linear: Fast Issue Tracking52 people · 54 mentions · first linked 2019-04-19
- Linear: Local first issue tracking34 people · 46 mentions · first linked 2019-09-11
- Practices for Building10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-10-16
- Readme7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-12-10
- We committed to a zero-bugs policy6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- Why is quality so rare?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-05-27
- Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-02-28
- Post mortem on Linear incident from Jan 24th, 20244 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-01-30
- Rebuilding Linear's delta sync read path4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-18
- Linear for Agents4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-17
What Hacker News says?
We are pretty much building this. We want to optimize the workflows so they actually make sense and recommend best best practices. The main thing we want support is individual's and the team's momentum. If the team has momentum, it's feels good and overall the company will make more progress. Features or anything that get in a way of that should be automated or not added at all. https://linear.app
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on “Why Enterprise Software Sucks”Submitted Linear – A fast issue tracker as a story · 491 points
HN discussionLinear (of linear.app) has a highly polished UI. In fact they had a dedicated period for fixing just usability issues: https://linear.app/changelog/2022-12-01-polishing-season-202... https://web.archive.org/web/20231003205004/https://linear.ap...
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on “Sanding UI”Submitted Settings are not a design failure as a story · 488 points
HN discussionIt's in the settings, "Import / Export" in the sidebar. We support CSV export or alternatively you can use the GraphQL API. You're right we need add a page in the docs. It was only mentioned in few pages in passing. For now I added a section here until we can make a full page about it: https://linear.app/docs/workspaces#export-workspace-data If you are looking anything else hit cmd+k to search the docs.
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on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up as a story · 317 points
HN discussionI'm not at all familiar but a tweet linked from the OP and written by the author plugs https://linear.app/
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on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted The profitable startup as a story · 248 points
HN discussionLinear adopted stylex as well and published a comprehensive write up https://linear.app/now/styling-linear-for-the-future-stylex
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on “Shopify acquires Tailwind”Submitted Linear.app as a story · 212 points
HN discussionIt undoubtedly looks great, but it's hard not to be a bit put off by their landing page which seems, just slightly, inspired by https://linear.app/
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on “Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files”Submitted The Profitable Startup as a story · 153 points
HN discussionLanding page looks like a cheap knock off of https://linear.app/
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on “Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files”Submitted Write tasks not user stories – Linear Method as a story · 79 points
HN discussionLinear | Senior Fullstack Engineer (JavaScript/TypeScript) | Full-Time | Remote (US/EU timezone) Linear is building a streamlined for teams to manage bugs, tasks, projects and sprints. The company was founded in 2019, and today, hundreds of high-impact teams and companies are already using Linear daily to build next-generation software. We are a remote-first company, and backed by some of the best founders, angels a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Linear Mobile – Available for iOS and Android as a story · 55 points
HN discussionHave you tried Linear [0]? ---- [0] - https://linear.app/
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on “I fucking hate Jira”Submitted Post mortem on Linear incident from Jan 24th, 2024 as a story · 15 points
HN discussionBut what if it _did_ spark joy… https://linear.app/readme
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on “I fucking hate Jira”Submitted Self-driving SaaS: When software runs itself as a story · 14 points
HN discussionLinear https://linear.app/ It's a joy to use
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on “I fucking hate Jira”Submitted Why is quality so rare? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLinear use a similar effect on their Customers page when you hover over their customer's cards: https://linear.app/customers
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on “Pokemon Card Animation”Submitted Agent Interaction Guidelines as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWe built Linear( https://linear.app ) to be offline first from the beginning. It’s kind of hard to do later. It’s architected in a way that client syncs the data, all the actions happen locally and then delta packets are synced back to the server. This also makes the app really fast because the client doesn’t have to wait for the network to complete the action.
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on “Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.”Submitted Readme as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> it seems people building those tools don’t really have much experience in what works and what doesn’t across orgs and team sizes... Try Linear. https://linear.app/method Opinionated, in a good way, and willing to slay sacred cows, such as replacing estimated sprints with you get done what you prioritized cycles, or milestones with roadmaps. (Now if I could just get them to replace "Projects" with something evergre…
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on “Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.”Submitted Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe name reminds me of https://linear.app/docs/pulse which provides regular updates on projects tracked in the tool.
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on “ChatGPT Pulse”Submitted Why is quality so rare? as a story · 5 points
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