Linear — Streamlined issue tracking for software teams

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...

We've been using Linear and loving it for months now. Super solid, thoughtfully designed, high quality. @karrisaarinen congrats to you and the team.

We've used Linear for a few weeks. The week we introduced it, our team became so much more productive - we completed issues just so we could use Linear, it's such a well designed product. Highly recommend to any development team.

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.

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.

Our team has been using Linear for a few months now. One of the best tools I've used in recent memory. Couldn't recommend a tool more highly 💯

We’ve been using Linear on our team for some months and it’s the best PM/issue tracking tool I’ve used to date. The design, workflow and keyboard shortcuts makes it seamless to work with and their second to none support and feedback dialogue with users makes Linear pure joy to pay for. Great effort by the team at Linear for your hard effort and lightening product cycles 👏

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

Sincerey one of the most delightful software products I’ve used in a long time

Awesome. Fast. Lightweight. Simple. Efficient. Recommend Linear to everyone, congrats to the team :D

We've loved Linear at @Draftbit for a while now. Started with our Engineering & Product functions, and I recently moved our Growth & Success functions onto Linear as well.

Before Linear, I was someone who hated project management tools. Linear has done the impossible: it has made a project management tool DELIGHTFUL and great to use. Love the product and excited to see it *launch*.

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.

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!

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.

We've been using Linear for a few months and love it. It's faster than Jira and Clubhouse. It provides more focused functionality than Trello. It's suits our small team really nicely.

One of my favorite tools of this year! Congrats, Linear team!

Been using it only for a few weeks but I gotta say, I am loving it!

Congrats on the launch! I've been in the waitlist for a long time and finally got it recently and it looks great! Super clean and fast, definitely worth a try.

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