What people previously said about Linear

“My team has moved from Jira to Shortcut to Linear and then back to Shortcut. All of these sort of tools seem to grow their feature set until it gets unwieldy and then we end us switching to something lighter to make life easier.”

“And the crazy thing is that Linear getting 25x revenue for a SAAS company today is an impressively high mark”

“- Linear for task + project management”

“He told me he was leaving Coinbase to build the ultimate developer-focused project management suite. Sounded nuts at the time. What a ride. Congrats to the @linear team!”

“Jira's shittiness is what made Linear become so popular.”

“\> Hey Claude, use the Linear MCP to create me an app that shows me a graph of all the issues in my project or workspace, connected by dependencies, similar to how they display project dependencies (https://linear.app/docs/project-dependencies)”

“Add a software factory when you need an event-driven queue of work (e.g. Slack triggers, GitHub issues, Linear, a backlog) to run in an isolated cloud environment to handle triage, implementation and testing with some explicit human babysitting."”

“I fucking love Linear. Whenever I have an idea, i tell Claude to see what we have in linear on the topic and then we expand upon it, sync it back.”

“Linear is that for project management. A wall of backlogs means people are adding things faster that they can reasonably be done.”

“Who else fucking hates Linear? How did we all collectively decide this was the tool we’d manage our product dev on?”

“* Look through Jira/Linear history?”

“I use GitHub projects because my internal IT wouldn't approve Linear, but it's the same scenario. I attempted to use github projects/issues as the actual task list at first through the MCP, and then eventually went back to in-repo task tracking, and just created a persistent gh projects subagent that occasionally mirrors/updates it with the repo's state.”

“Massive fan of linear, both the product and team. Use it a lot but my usage and dependencies are going down for two main reasons:”

“I was doing basically this workflow and it worked pretty well, but meant that I had to have cmux + Linear MCP + an IDE opened at all times. I just ended up building my own harness in an OSS app called Volli to do this now.”

“Already replaced github issues + linear + notion with @crabtalk > <”

“I just opened 30 new Ox Alpha tabs in OpenCode and just put all my linear issues one into every separate tab, let's see how this goes.”

“Roman pulls GitHub, Linear, and http://incident.io into one Lovable app.”

“You use Linear to manage your project, I use a single 10MB Bear note.”

“I want to see the best dev automation setup: - issues from helpscout tickets or Sentry issues - creates issues in github/linear - spawns Coding agent (codex, CC, Cursor, don't care) - does some kind of QA - Creates a PR - Notifies in Slack”

“ai now writes almost half the issues in linear at some orgs. prs tripled. dev time still went up. more agent output doesn't mean faster shipping, it just moves the bottleneck to review.”

“In case people missed @charlieaufmann walks through his Linear redesign project work and using @linear agent:”

“Uber had such interesting dynamics (standard oil like) whereas Linear has (to my knowledge) prioritized being cashflow positive from day one.”

“It's a product of necessity: as most teams we started with Linear. But Linear is... well, linear. It works until the complexity of the codebase stops being linear.”

“Swap Slack for PagerDuty or Linear. Mostly one-line changes.”