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@Linear just launched Pulse, "a new way to stay in sync with your product organization through a personalized, realtime feed of updates and discussions."
See your own personalized feed inside Pulse called "For me", showing updates from projects and initiatives you are subscribed to or a member of.
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Startups using Linear - is it a company wide project mgmt system, or do you use other tools too?
We made a move to @Linear at Product Hunt within the past 6 months. Curious if other startups using @Linear have adopted it company wide. Or is it primarily used by the EPD team and the rest of the company uses different PM tools? And if so, how is it working?
We were previously on @Asana . I like to say I am tool-agnostic, and can adapt our company processes to whatever tool the team will use, but with many project management tools, I had my love/hate relationship with Asana. @Notion works well as our homebase for company and project documentation, brainstorming, etc. and can even work for simple task/project management (I love their inline databases). But if you're looking for more robust tools, I haven't seen Notion up to the task. I have also tried@Trello , @Todoist , @Basecamp , @ClickUp etc at other companies.
Do you agree with Linear that it's time to rethink the MVP?
I agree that the MVP is a journey, and not a one-time validation event, and that continuous iteration is necessary to refine the product into a competitive offering in existing markets. I found the emphasis on using a waitlist strategically to collect targeted feedback from specific tranches of early adopters a solid recommendation. Given this, it tracks that when you narrow your target audience, you can be more selective and intentional on how you deploy resources. By leveraging deep understanding of specific user needs, you can create significant value compared with the competition. Is this similar or different to your approach?
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Every time you think Linear has reached peak landing page design, they step it up. This page is beautiful, and this functionality is so exciting to see coming to Linear. Why would anyone use Jira any more?!
We’ve been using Linear for several months now instead of Jira and no regrets. The product is fast (very fast!), easy to use, lightweight and has a neat UI.
It fits well for small startup teams but gets messy when roadmap grows just a little. Has the freedom to define projects and tags but it works well IMO only for a single team with one or two boards only (there is no "board" definition). There is no board or flight level views, you have to make your own filters and setup your organisation which may or may not be your best time spending idea. The swim lanes that are so interesting on the competitors (Jira, kanbanize etc) are not present here. There is only one lane per team and tickets belongs only to projects so you have to manage your organisation with a single hierarchy of tasks. If I have to choose it will not be my first option.
Linear is a good app to run a team using scrum. It is much simpler to use and doesn't require a lot of configuration and set-up. It also integrates with GIthub, so that your tasks get updated automatically when you perform actions like, opening a PR, assigning reviewers and merging or closing a PR. It also provides helpful charts. However, it does have a confusing structure, in which you have two competing views: the active sprint (called "cycle") and all the active tasks (called "active"), regardless if they are a part of the sprint or not. Linear defaults to opening the "active" view, so if you don't pay attention, you may think you are in the sprint ("cycle") view and may end up taking tasks that are outside the sprint.
I've been using it on several projects for probably a year now! And I believe it's the best thing on the market. What I like: Super fast. I haven't encountered such fast applications in a long time. It's like I'm not even on the internet; everything loads instantly! Unique philosophy. By that, I mean the way they describe how to use their product is very well done. There are things that are missing, but still, it's the best product.