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Chris S.
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Web/Mobile Designer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Linear?

It's very well designed and allows you to customize the tool based on your business needs by providing essential features and configurations like Cycles, Cool-down periods, Integrations, Issues management, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Sometimes when I need to use the tool from the mobile browser, the scrolling experience is not the best. I've accidentally moved issues from one column to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Linear solves the problem of having to manage multiple tools for the same purpose. It is all in the same place (Documents, Tasks, Milestones, and others). It helps me to keep my development cycles in order with anteriority. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Linear?

Linear is a purpose-built tool for planning and building products. Streamline issues, projects, and product roadmaps. Linear powers over 10,000 high-impact product teams including Cash App, Ramp and Scale.

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Seller
Linear
Year Founded
2019
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
Twitter
@linear
70,527 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
109 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring magic back to software. To empower product teams to do their best work, we are building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. Founded in
019, Linear has become the tool of choice for thousands of high-impact companies to build their products better. Linear was set up as a fully remote company from the start. Today, our small but mighty team is distributed across North America and Europe. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and our passion for software craftsmanship. We are all makers at heart and care deeply about the quality of our work.


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Anri M.
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Anri M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best product planning and execution tool ever. Way ahead of any others."
So fast!! So carefully designed for usability and features balance. Strong community and support. Linear can addapt to any size of project and can ...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Linear is the first planning to I had joy to use"
It just works, not excessive options or bloat of information, it focus on being simple.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent"
Speed, stability, and simplicity. The ideal ticket system.
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Anri M.
AM
Engineering Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Linear?

So fast!! So carefully designed for usability and features balance. Strong community and support. Linear can addapt to any size of project and can be implemented in no time. Integrates with many third parties. Linear is my daliy driver and improved my teams productivity from day 1. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Small improvements could be done on Github integration details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project planning, estimation, documentation, execution, roadmapping, communicating with stakeholders and external users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sebastian S.
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Project Leader
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What do you like best about Linear?

Great user interface with easy tracking of to-dos for me individually, as well as across my team. Super helpful to get visibility across the team and identify blockers early. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Visualizations are not as extensive as I would like. Would be great to have more ways to create custom dashboards to visualize projects or exceptions on defined dimensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Linear helps me and my team keep up with outstanding to-dos, as well as running retros to review and celebrate what we achieved to get done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dane W.
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Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Linear?

The keyboard shortcuts, hot keys and custom integrations are so easy and efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Can be sometimes confusing to get used to some of the commands Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is allowing me to efficiently create tickets and monitor roadmap progress. It is implementing a lot of cool features that other solutions are just failing to keep up wkth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Linear?

It just works, not excessive options or bloat of information, it focus on being simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Linear insights are underwhelming, for a premium feature it should over more options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Feature and project planning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joe G.
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Principal Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Linear?

Modern, PWA features like real-time collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

It isn't easy to navigate between cycles. Assigned individual filters are not dropped between cycle selections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it as our primary SDLC management tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pietro V.
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Senior Designer
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What do you like best about Linear?

In my company everyone is using Linear for task management, which makes it extremely useful to collaborate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

It could be better when it comes to planning and tracking goals and initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

In a remote environment, it's extremely useful to have Linear to track tasks and collaborate with other teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Renée D.
RD
Product and Knowledge Manager
Computer Software
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What do you like best about Linear?

The team clearly cares about design and the user experience. Every feature contributes to an intuitive experience, and integrations are seamless. This is probably the most beautiful and well thought out app I've ever used, and the support team and slack channel are amazing. I've never needed to submit a support ticket, but occasionally send feature requests. However, I'm so happy with Linear out of the box for Product Management, roadmap planning, team collaboration, etc., that I'd be fine without any of my feature requests making it onto their roadmap. This isn't just about having a useful. From watching YouTube videos and Linkedin posts, the whole team has so much wisdom to share that's valuable to anyone working in Saas or product in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Not applicable. I have yet to find a true flaw. I have only requested additional features to more easily support housing documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Linear improves communication and collaboration between our development, product, marketing, technical support and leadership teams. It also makes roadmapping and cycle planning a dream when it was previously clunky and difficult to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maher K.
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Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Linear?

The UI is really clear and easy to use. it has the most needed feature to use in very simple way, it keeps track of everything in your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

All is good, maybe some improvements to tickets filtering could help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping track of all the projects and their related tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Linear?

Speed, stability, and simplicity. The ideal ticket system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

It's genuinely hard to fault Linear. Strong recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Software development from planning through the branch mangement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nischal N.
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Quality Analyst
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What do you like best about Linear?

It's bug tracking feature and the sprint planning feature are best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Linear?

User's can't customize more labels on the ticket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Linear is solving the gap between software planning and testing.It's ease of use and bug tracking feature is helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.