{"slug": "linear", "name": "Linear", "category": "productivity", "category_name": "Productivity", "description": "Issue tracking and project management tool for software teams.", "recommenders": 23, "commenters": 45, "warners": 3, "score": 23.541, "rising": 2.76, "first": "2025-11-30", "latest": "2026-10-26", "why": "HN commenters like Linear as a more pleasant alternative to Jira, with a polished UI and clean integrations for AI agents and GitHub.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 24, "neutral": 18, "compare": 2, "warn": 3}, "spark": [0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 5, 4, 4, 2, 3], "listed": true, "loved": ["AI agent workflows", "Better than Jira"], "caveat": "Slow loading", "short_quote": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly).", "icon": true, "domain": "linear.app", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://linear.app", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Linear"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters like Linear as a more pleasant alternative to Jira,", "cites": [{"id": 803897936, "item_id": 50243621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243621", "by": "yard2010", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this", "excerpt": "Tangibly related - I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this. After being defiled by Jira in my $dayjob, I couldn't believe I'll find a ticket management app I would love so much I literally advertise for free.", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket management", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository"}, {"id": 800063585, "item_id": 50003974, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003974", "by": "tomashubelbauer", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And I love Linear", "excerpt": "Yeah, my company has a simple, straight-forward system, but I still dread using Jira. And I love Linear, so it's not general ticket management system hate! Jira just sucks.", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Docker Agent"}, {"id": 790311601, "item_id": 49394475, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394475", "by": "Gouala", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear kind of resolve that.", "excerpt": "Might be offtrack with this one but... Jira. It was much simpler and faster. Now it's one of the most convuloted tools and it's actually a pain to use. Linear kind of resolve that. I know I know, it's not per say a development tool, but without Kanban or project manager, it's hard to do anything.", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Ask HN: Which developer tool got worse as it became popular?"}, {"id": 786186305, "item_id": 49136644, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136644", "by": "kloud", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "like Linear outclasses Jira", "excerpt": "GitHub is really two separate products: a code forge for teams and a social coding platform to collaborate on open source. When I use the social platform, it is mostly as a read-only website. I am occasionally commenting, opening issues, PRs etc. The slowness and annoyances do not matter that much. But I live in the team tool, where the annoyances and paper cuts are painful. Besides poor craftsmanship, there is often", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"}]}, {"text": " with a polished UI and clean integrations for AI agents and GitHub.", "cites": [{"id": 775009312, "item_id": 48438082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438082", "by": "jwr", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly).", "excerpt": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly). It's worth it. I am genuinely impressed with their engineering and design \u2014 I aspire to attain these levels, though I lack not only the skills, but also several zeroes in my bank account, I think. Still, it's worth looking at what they do and try to get there! Big props and kudos to ", "context": "paying customer", "use_case": "bug tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 792787472, "item_id": 49549217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549217", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear's MCP is also very clean and well designed, probably one of their core advantages over, say, Jira.", "excerpt": "I used one for an AI tool that allows people to report bugs/feature request directly. It searches to make sure it isn't a duplicate, writes up the ticket, then submits it. Because it's a production tool, we want the cheapest possible one without it being too inaccurate. If you used a API etc, you'd end up building what's effectively a MCP-like adapter on top of it anyway so it could communicate in natural language in", "context": "", "use_case": "bug ticket creation via MCP", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"}, {"id": 749236833, "item_id": 46827302, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827302", "by": "_bramses", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives", "excerpt": "I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type \"standup\". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives and trying to honor my \"in progress\" list. [1] - https://gist.github.com/bramses/d59fb1659ec53fda9ec33f60200fe3eb [2] - https://linear.app/inte", "context": "", "use_case": "task and project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Track Your Routine \u2013 Open-source app for task management"}, {"id": 789329872, "item_id": 49333117, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333117", "by": "sebmellen", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery.", "excerpt": "How about ticketing? We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery. Willing to give it up for better service stability, but wondering if Forgejo offers any kind of native ticketing integrations. I know GitLab does, but I'm not massively impressed with GitLab either.", "context": "team using Linear with GitHub", "use_case": "ticketing / issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub down again? no PR access"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is slow ticket loading and confusing UX,", "cites": [{"id": 775054848, "item_id": 48440928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440928", "by": "nolander", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love when I try to pull up a ticket during a meeting or a huddle and then awkwardly watch it loading/caching", "excerpt": "I love when I try to pull up a ticket during a meeting or a huddle and then awkwardly watch it loading/caching or w/e its doing for an inordinate amount of time.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775016720, "item_id": 48438545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438545", "by": "HoyaSaxa", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast.", "excerpt": "We use Linear at work. I\u2019m definitely in the minority, but I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast. Sure the page technically loads reasonably quickly, but half the time I see numbers updating on the page with no visual indicator that data loading is still happening.", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "issue tracking at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}]}, {"text": " and some find it more than small or personal projects need.", "cites": [{"id": 759394032, "item_id": 47462127, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462127", "by": "izajahmad", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference", "excerpt": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference when you're context-switching constantly. For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board \u2014 sometimes the overhead of dedicated PM tools isn't worth it when the team is under 5 people.", "context": "", "use_case": "engineering project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?"}, {"id": 758066161, "item_id": 47379135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379135", "by": "bdangubic", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to pay for Linear for all my personal projects, built one with CC that perfectly fits my needs", "excerpt": "I used a bunch of tools from https://setapp.com/ and no longer subscribe. I used to pay for Linear for all my personal projects, built one with CC that perfectly fits my needs\u2026 I also built a myriad of small tools that help me automate bunch of busy work I used to do manually, both for professional and personal projects", "context": "", "use_case": "personal project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?"}, {"id": 737567136, "item_id": 46097946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097946", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water)", "excerpt": "> To avoid this problem, I created my own bug tracker software, buggy, which is a very simple C tool that parses plain Markdown files and creates a single HTML page for each bug. I love this. I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water), but this also opened the question \"why even have a seperate, disconnected tool?\" Most of my personal projects have a TODO.md somewhere with a list of th", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "Linear", "story": "Migrating Dillo from GitHub"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "AI agent workflows", "summary": "Its MCP server and API make it easy to hook up Claude and other coding agents to create, read and work through tickets.", "quotes": [{"id": 792787472, "item_id": 49549217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549217", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear's MCP is also very clean and well designed, probably one of their core advantages over, say, Jira.", "excerpt": "I used one for an AI tool that allows people to report bugs/feature request directly. It searches to make sure it isn't a duplicate, writes up the ticket, then submits it. Because it's a production tool, we want the cheapest possible one without it being too inaccurate. If you used a API etc, you'd end up building what's effectively a MCP-like adapter on top of it anyway so it could communicate in natural language in", "context": "", "use_case": "bug ticket creation via MCP", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"}, {"id": 749236833, "item_id": 46827302, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827302", "by": "_bramses", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives", "excerpt": "I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type \"standup\". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives and trying to honor my \"in progress\" list. [1] - https://gist.github.com/bramses/d59fb1659ec53fda9ec33f60200fe3eb [2] - https://linear.app/inte", "context": "", "use_case": "task and project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Track Your Routine \u2013 Open-source app for task management"}, {"id": 767064481, "item_id": 47941530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941530", "by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "superset will pull the ticket from linear", "excerpt": "Recently I've started to use https://superset.sh as alternative to Warp. After the volks @mastra mentioned it. Very cool open source project. I'm actually pretty proud of the final setup I've created with it. Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude with the ticket as instruct", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}]}, {"label": "Better than Jira", "summary": "Several people who switched from Jira say Linear is simpler and far nicer to use.", "quotes": [{"id": 803897936, "item_id": 50243621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243621", "by": "yard2010", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this", "excerpt": "Tangibly related - I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this. After being defiled by Jira in my $dayjob, I couldn't believe I'll find a ticket management app I would love so much I literally advertise for free.", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket management", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository"}, {"id": 800063585, "item_id": 50003974, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003974", "by": "tomashubelbauer", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And I love Linear", "excerpt": "Yeah, my company has a simple, straight-forward system, but I still dread using Jira. And I love Linear, so it's not general ticket management system hate! Jira just sucks.", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Docker Agent"}, {"id": 790311601, "item_id": 49394475, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394475", "by": "Gouala", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear kind of resolve that.", "excerpt": "Might be offtrack with this one but... Jira. It was much simpler and faster. Now it's one of the most convuloted tools and it's actually a pain to use. Linear kind of resolve that. I know I know, it's not per say a development tool, but without Kanban or project manager, it's hard to do anything.", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Ask HN: Which developer tool got worse as it became popular?"}]}, {"label": "Polished design", "summary": "Commenters praise thoughtful UI details like pull-down menus, actionable toasts and draft recovery.", "quotes": [{"id": 775009312, "item_id": 48438082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438082", "by": "jwr", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly).", "excerpt": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly). It's worth it. I am genuinely impressed with their engineering and design \u2014 I aspire to attain these levels, though I lack not only the skills, but also several zeroes in my bank account, I think. Still, it's worth looking at what they do and try to get there! Big props and kudos to ", "context": "paying customer", "use_case": "bug tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 739083552, "item_id": 46192722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192722", "by": "heystefan", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear toasts after every action (with common actions on them such as copy link)", "excerpt": "Not sure where all the Toast hate is coming from in this thread, but I know two instances of Toasts that I use daily and they help a lot: - macOS screenshots - Linear toasts after every action (with common actions on them such as copy link)", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building a Toast Component"}, {"id": 780419536, "item_id": 48776221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776221", "by": "yard2010", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out Linear, I'm not affiliated, just yesterday I happened to close the dialog by misclicking and when I pressed create issue again there was the wall of text I wrote.", "excerpt": "Check out Linear, I'm not affiliated, just yesterday I happened to close the dialog by misclicking and when I pressed create issue again there was the wall of text I wrote. My point is it's not a technical problem but a product one.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"}]}, {"label": "GitHub integration", "summary": "Its GitHub integration is described as smooth, and other tools offer built-in Linear integrations.", "quotes": [{"id": 789329872, "item_id": 49333117, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333117", "by": "sebmellen", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery.", "excerpt": "How about ticketing? We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery. Willing to give it up for better service stability, but wondering if Forgejo offers any kind of native ticketing integrations. I know GitLab does, but I'm not massively impressed with GitLab either.", "context": "team using Linear with GitHub", "use_case": "ticketing / issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub down again? no PR access"}, {"id": 793851459, "item_id": 49615716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615716", "by": "bibstha", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "linear or github built in integration", "excerpt": "Onorca.dev is very similar but has a desktop UI that I prefer to herdr. I find it easier to work with. Being UI, it has markdown reader, a native browser integration, linear or github built in integration. So working with multiple different unrelated projects feels natural. Go to linear, select a ticket -> start in X workspace, go to github, select an issue and start in Y workspace. The limitation of Orca or Herdr is", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Connecting the machines"}]}, {"label": "Project organization", "summary": "Projects, tags and labels help users track long-term initiatives and stay productive.", "quotes": [{"id": 749236833, "item_id": 46827302, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827302", "by": "_bramses", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives", "excerpt": "I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type \"standup\". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives and trying to honor my \"in progress\" list. [1] - https://gist.github.com/bramses/d59fb1659ec53fda9ec33f60200fe3eb [2] - https://linear.app/inte", "context": "", "use_case": "task and project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Track Your Routine \u2013 Open-source app for task management"}, {"id": 783743507, "item_id": 48983969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983969", "by": "shant_extry", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Learning how to use documentation for/with AI has been the story of my last year+. I don't have the technical background you do but I've worked in product and project management, so I was never deep in code the way you've been. I think the journey of figuring out how to actually create with AI has been as interesting as what I'm able to create. I wish I had documented more of my lessons-learned the way you have. The ", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it"}]}, {"label": "Keyboard shortcuts", "summary": "One user says its keyboard shortcuts and speed help with constant context-switching.", "quotes": [{"id": 759394032, "item_id": 47462127, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462127", "by": "izajahmad", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference", "excerpt": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference when you're context-switching constantly. For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board \u2014 sometimes the overhead of dedicated PM tools isn't worth it when the team is under 5 people.", "context": "", "use_case": "engineering project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Slow loading", "summary": "Some users report tickets taking a long time to load and data updating without loading indicators.", "quotes": [{"id": 775054848, "item_id": 48440928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440928", "by": "nolander", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love when I try to pull up a ticket during a meeting or a huddle and then awkwardly watch it loading/caching", "excerpt": "I love when I try to pull up a ticket during a meeting or a huddle and then awkwardly watch it loading/caching or w/e its doing for an inordinate amount of time.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775016720, "item_id": 48438545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438545", "by": "HoyaSaxa", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast.", "excerpt": "We use Linear at work. I\u2019m definitely in the minority, but I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast. Sure the page technically loads reasonably quickly, but half the time I see numbers updating on the page with no visual indicator that data loading is still happening.", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "issue tracking at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}]}, {"label": "UX not for everyone", "summary": "A few developers struggle with its UX or don't see what sets it apart from other issue trackers.", "quotes": [{"id": 775016720, "item_id": 48438545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438545", "by": "HoyaSaxa", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast.", "excerpt": "We use Linear at work. I\u2019m definitely in the minority, but I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast. Sure the page technically loads reasonably quickly, but half the time I see numbers updating on the page with no visual indicator that data loading is still happening.", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "issue tracking at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775012304, "item_id": 48438269, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438269", "by": "nilirl", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Am I the only that doesn't \"get\" Linear?", "excerpt": "Am I the only that doesn't \"get\" Linear? Even if speed is the killer feature, isn't an issue tracker a relatively low-frequency application for a dev? Whenever I use it, I don't feel like I'm doing anything new when compared to all the other issue trackers and Kanban boards I've used before.", "context": "developer", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}]}, {"label": "Overkill for small projects", "summary": "Some prefer GitHub Projects, Markdown TODO files or a home-built tool for small teams and personal projects.", "quotes": [{"id": 759394032, "item_id": 47462127, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462127", "by": "izajahmad", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference", "excerpt": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference when you're context-switching constantly. For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board \u2014 sometimes the overhead of dedicated PM tools isn't worth it when the team is under 5 people.", "context": "", "use_case": "engineering project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?"}, {"id": 758066161, "item_id": 47379135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379135", "by": "bdangubic", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to pay for Linear for all my personal projects, built one with CC that perfectly fits my needs", "excerpt": "I used a bunch of tools from https://setapp.com/ and no longer subscribe. I used to pay for Linear for all my personal projects, built one with CC that perfectly fits my needs\u2026 I also built a myriad of small tools that help me automate bunch of busy work I used to do manually, both for professional and personal projects", "context": "", "use_case": "personal project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?"}, {"id": 737567136, "item_id": 46097946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097946", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water)", "excerpt": "> To avoid this problem, I created my own bug tracker software, buggy, which is a very simple C tool that parses plain Markdown files and creates a single HTML page for each bug. I love this. I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water), but this also opened the question \"why even have a seperate, disconnected tool?\" Most of my personal projects have a TODO.md somewhere with a list of th", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "Linear", "story": "Migrating Dillo from GitHub"}]}, {"label": "No WIP limits", "summary": "You can't cap how many issues can sit in a given state, unlike Pivotal Tracker.", "quotes": [{"id": 759473920, "item_id": 47467120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467120", "by": "prxtl", "date": "2026-03-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "+1 to Linear being fantastic.", "excerpt": "+1 to Linear being fantastic. At this point, my biggest gripe with it (in comparison to Pivotal Tracker) is that I cannot put a limit on how many issues can exist in a certain state. Tracker used to do this very well with velocity. I'd be very happy if I could set a max limit of 5 on the \"todo\" state of a certain team. Helps a lot with prioritization and poorly done planning.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "Pivotal Tracker", "story": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?"}]}, {"label": "Signup issues", "summary": "One user's signup failed, possibly because their email address contained a plus sign.", "quotes": [{"id": 775036928, "item_id": 48439808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439808", "by": "iririririr", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "their sign up also failed me. probably because i used +", "excerpt": "their sign up also failed me. probably because i used + it just told me to f off. lol. i bet this company got funded, imploded headcount, nobody see a profitable exit, and now they are all fighting each other for quarterly promotions based on whatever metric they can both improve and entice the cto. which i will go on a wild guess and say its page load performance.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}]}, {"label": "Large bundle", "summary": "One developer notes that its web app download is several times larger than their Flutter web app.", "quotes": [{"id": 755456337, "item_id": 47216021, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216021", "by": "matt_kn", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I looked at Linear (which we used back then) and found out that the download is several times larger", "excerpt": "Bundle size matters until it doesn't. Flutter is absolutely not suitable for web pages, but for web applications the situation is different. I was quite hesitant about Flutter web, up until around 3 years ago, the binary size being biggest concern. That was until I looked at Linear (which we used back then) and found out that the download is several times larger than whatever we were building with Flutter web, and no", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Can we have Flutter-like portability without the bloated web binaries?"}]}], "who": [{"by": "bilalq", "context": "mobile app developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238760", "date": "2026-10-26"}, {"by": "seifbenayed1992", "context": "startup founder", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975300", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "cbzehner", "context": "VP Engineering at Fazeshift", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923384", "date": "2026-10-01"}, {"by": "sebmellen", "context": "team using Linear with GitHub", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333117", "date": "2026-08-17"}, {"by": "nilirl", "context": "developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438269", "date": "2026-06-07"}, {"by": "jwr", "context": "paying customer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438082", "date": "2026-06-07"}, {"by": "browningstreet", "context": "solopreneur with many independent projects", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420002", "date": "2026-06-05"}, {"by": "sltr", "context": "founder and dev", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295132", "date": "2025-12-16"}], "tags": ["Jira alternative", "for engineering teams", "for AI agent workflows", "for GitHub users", "for solo founders"], "use_cases": ["issue tracking", "ticket tracking", "ticket management", "project management", "tracking work items", "pull-down menus ui"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 11, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "jira", "name": "Jira", "co": 7, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "github", "name": "GitHub", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "pivotal-tracker", "name": "Pivotal Tracker", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "notion", "name": "Notion", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437609", "title": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629", "title": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548600", "title": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452904", "title": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235780", "title": "The State of Context Engineering", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241924", "title": "Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 3, "warn": 3}, "2026-07": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 4, "neutral": 2}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 4, "compare": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 3}}, "quotes": [{"id": 803947521, "item_id": 50246720, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246720", "by": "viccis", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I track bigger picture work items in a normal ticket tracker (Linear, etc.)", "excerpt": "Just for agents. I track bigger picture work items in a normal ticket tracker (Linear, etc.) and the lightweight one (I use kata) is just for coordinating work and memory between agents.", "context": "", "use_case": "tracking work items", "switched_from": "", "story": "The State of Context Engineering"}, {"id": 803897936, "item_id": 50243621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243621", "by": "yard2010", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this", "excerpt": "Tangibly related - I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this. After being defiled by Jira in my $dayjob, I couldn't believe I'll find a ticket management app I would love so much I literally advertise for free.", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket management", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository"}, {"id": 803820163, "item_id": 50238760, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238760", "by": "bilalq", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "side by side with Slack or Linear to create issues or discuss with people", "excerpt": "I love my Pixel 10 Fold and can't imagine ever going back to a non-foldable now. The larger screen is great for productivity. Reviewing PRs on the larger screen is way more comfortable than a normal phone size. The built-in terminal app also works nicely with herdr and Tailscale to let me connect to my work machine. I can interact with my agents and get real work done on the go. I also have saved split views so I can", "context": "mobile app developer", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "iPhone Duo Teardown"}, {"id": 803531296, "item_id": 50220706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220706", "by": "ch_sm", "date": "2026-10-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Some modern web products actually implement them. Linear for example", "excerpt": "Ah, pull-down menus. I love them, use them all the time. Some modern web products actually implement them. Linear for example, and some UI libraries I\u2019ve seen. I always add that interaction at the companies I work for, unprompted haha.", "context": "", "use_case": "pull-down menus UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "No more icons in every menu by default"}, {"id": 800063585, "item_id": 50003974, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003974", "by": "tomashubelbauer", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And I love Linear", "excerpt": "Yeah, my company has a simple, straight-forward system, but I still dread using Jira. And I love Linear, so it's not general ticket management system hate! Jira just sucks.", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Docker Agent"}, {"id": 799604801, "item_id": 49975300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975300", "by": "seifbenayed1992", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "so I use Notion, linear and add a simple artefact for my non technical team", "excerpt": "So I build my startup and we use to work a lot via WhatsApp which wasn't very efficient so we decide to switch via ticketing system so I use Notion, linear and add a simple artefact for my non technical team so they can grilling and create a brief which become a spec then tickets. this is mainly now for me to push small bug fixes ( for now) or simple features but maybe few things need to improve.", "context": "startup founder", "use_case": "ticketing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Feedback regarding my AI setup"}, {"id": 798774145, "item_id": 49923384, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923384", "by": "cbzehner", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Engineers use Conductor, stacked PRs, Linear, and multiple frontier models every day", "excerpt": "Fazeshift | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (5 days/week) | Full-time | $200k\u2013$235k + equity I\u2019m Chris, VP Engineering at Fazeshift. We\u2019re nine engineers plus our Founder/CTO and me, and I\u2019m hiring someone who can help us do more, better: increase both what we can build and the quality and sophistication of the software we build. Accounts receivable sounds boring until you look under the hood. I", "context": "VP Engineering at Fazeshift", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 797679810, "item_id": 49854988, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854988", "by": "superjose", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we use linear", "excerpt": "One thing I've been doing is to use it for: 1. Compare the code against production data with MCP. We use a read only platform called Metabase which reads one of the MySQL replicas. I tell the agent to fetch production data and make a static pass (it doesn't run the code) in which it compares shapes and inputs, and oh boy it has caught a few misnomers. 2. To debug production data and create graphs. It connects to data", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"}, {"id": 796607729, "item_id": 49787983, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787983", "by": "jakelevirne", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "in a team-visible way using Linear and Cyrus", "excerpt": "This is great to see. I've now fully embraced long-running agentic workflows with separate plan->generate->evaluate steps, all coordinated by an orchestrator. I've done this using Claude Code alone, which is very easy but costly using Fable alone. I've done this in a team-visible way using Linear and Cyrus https://specstory.com/tutorials/team-based-loop-engineering. And lately, for cost savings I've been doing this v", "context": "", "use_case": "team-visible agent workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Self Improving AgentOrchestrator Skill"}, {"id": 793851459, "item_id": 49615716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615716", "by": "bibstha", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "linear or github built in integration", "excerpt": "Onorca.dev is very similar but has a desktop UI that I prefer to herdr. I find it easier to work with. Being UI, it has markdown reader, a native browser integration, linear or github built in integration. So working with multiple different unrelated projects feels natural. Go to linear, select a ticket -> start in X workspace, go to github, select an issue and start in Y workspace. The limitation of Orca or Herdr is", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Connecting the machines"}, {"id": 792993234, "item_id": 49562077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562077", "by": "falbala", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use a couple of them with Claude: dash0 + linear + readonly access to a prod db", "excerpt": "As a user, I use a couple of them with Claude: dash0 + linear + readonly access to a prod db, I can now understand and debug our user's issues in minutes with all the forensic automated. In our product, we found it hard to onboard people on our platform because even though the data was rich, our features were subpar and in development. I've opened the MCP API based on our GraphQL API (like 100 lines of code and confi", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking via MCP", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"}, {"id": 792787472, "item_id": 49549217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549217", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear's MCP is also very clean and well designed, probably one of their core advantages over, say, Jira.", "excerpt": "I used one for an AI tool that allows people to report bugs/feature request directly. It searches to make sure it isn't a duplicate, writes up the ticket, then submits it. Because it's a production tool, we want the cheapest possible one without it being too inaccurate. If you used a API etc, you'd end up building what's effectively a MCP-like adapter on top of it anyway so it could communicate in natural language in", "context": "", "use_case": "bug ticket creation via MCP", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"}, {"id": 790311601, "item_id": 49394475, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394475", "by": "Gouala", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear kind of resolve that.", "excerpt": "Might be offtrack with this one but... Jira. It was much simpler and faster. Now it's one of the most convuloted tools and it's actually a pain to use. Linear kind of resolve that. I know I know, it's not per say a development tool, but without Kanban or project manager, it's hard to do anything.", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Ask HN: Which developer tool got worse as it became popular?"}, {"id": 790014769, "item_id": 49375923, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375923", "by": "ericpauley", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Github/Linear have somewhat more cohesive experiences", "excerpt": "I'm going to chock this one up as a yet-another \"X is your agentic coding hub\" PR nonsense. What are people actually using to manage semi-collaborative agentic coding workflows nowadays? We've moved from on-dev-machine coding to @claude in GitHub, but of course GitHub purposefully weakens the capability of that approach to the point that it's kind of a hack. Github/Linear have somewhat more cohesive experiences but i", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Slack Code"}, {"id": 789699136, "item_id": 49356196, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356196", "by": "agnishom", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear is boring, but that's actually fine by me.", "excerpt": "I didn't know Linear has \"AI features\". Linear is boring, but that's actually fine by me. I use LLMs to write my code, but this does not show up in this data.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI usage patterns in software teams"}, {"id": 789329872, "item_id": 49333117, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333117", "by": "sebmellen", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery.", "excerpt": "How about ticketing? We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery. Willing to give it up for better service stability, but wondering if Forgejo offers any kind of native ticketing integrations. I know GitLab does, but I'm not massively impressed with GitLab either.", "context": "team using Linear with GitHub", "use_case": "ticketing / issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub down again? no PR access"}, {"id": 786186305, "item_id": 49136644, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136644", "by": "kloud", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "like Linear outclasses Jira", "excerpt": "GitHub is really two separate products: a code forge for teams and a social coding platform to collaborate on open source. When I use the social platform, it is mostly as a read-only website. I am occasionally commenting, opening issues, PRs etc. The slowness and annoyances do not matter that much. But I live in the team tool, where the annoyances and paper cuts are painful. Besides poor craftsmanship, there is often", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"}, {"id": 785310915, "item_id": 49081932, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081932", "by": "jumpalongjim", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear for issue / task management.", "excerpt": "I no longer write code. In fact I develop in languages I'm not very familiar with. I use Claude Code, Grok Build and Pi as AI coding agents. I use Linear for issue / task management. I use Github for CI, building on multiple platforms and CD. I use Neovim when I want to read code, and Mermaid when I want my code architecture to be explained.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue and task management", "switched_from": "", "story": "So what is your programming setup? Hype is making fundamentals confusing"}, {"id": 784607938, "item_id": 49037996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037996", "by": "enraged_camel", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "eventually ticket it out in Linear", "excerpt": "This does not match my experience at all. I use Fable as an orchestrator, and describe the end goal I want to achieve. It investigates the current state of affairs, and determines the smaller work units needed. We discuss each one, and eventually ticket it out in Linear. By that point, each ticket has all the relevant details, scope, decisions and acceptance criteria. Then I have it write prompts for implementation a", "context": "", "use_case": "ticketing for agent work", "switched_from": "", "story": "How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?"}, {"id": 783743507, "item_id": 48983969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983969", "by": "shant_extry", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Learning how to use documentation for/with AI has been the story of my last year+. I don't have the technical background you do but I've worked in product and project management, so I was never deep in code the way you've been. I think the journey of figuring out how to actually create with AI has been as interesting as what I'm able to create. I wish I had documented more of my lessons-learned the way you have. The ", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it"}, {"id": 781973139, "item_id": 48873321, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873321", "by": "gabriel-uribe", "date": "2026-07-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "scrape my Linear, claim achievable tasks, and push PRs", "excerpt": "Fwiw, don't buy into all the hype that you're falling behind. Yes, AI does cool things now, but I would say the impact is still unproven past indie hackers or early-stage startups. And a lot of the esoteric setups people have created with things like OpenClaw have become outdated as quickly as they were conceived. The popular thing is now to setup loops (eg I setup hourly integrations for Claude/Codex to 1) scrape my", "context": "", "use_case": "task tracking for agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI 2040: Plan A"}, {"id": 781713729, "item_id": 48857108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857108", "by": "stavros", "date": "2026-07-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Github issues/Linear to work on multiple tickets in parallel", "excerpt": "I no longer use a harness directly, instead I use Github issues/Linear to work on multiple tickets in parallel while the agents are doing work: https://github.com/skorokithakis/symphony", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"}, {"id": 780419536, "item_id": 48776221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776221", "by": "yard2010", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out Linear, I'm not affiliated, just yesterday I happened to close the dialog by misclicking and when I pressed create issue again there was the wall of text I wrote.", "excerpt": "Check out Linear, I'm not affiliated, just yesterday I happened to close the dialog by misclicking and when I pressed create issue again there was the wall of text I wrote. My point is it's not a technical problem but a product one.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"}, {"id": 779951600, "item_id": 48746975, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746975", "by": "dv35z", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Linear seems to be the most popular alternative to Pivotal Tracker.", "excerpt": "Hoping someone will boot-up an open-source version. Linear seems to be the most popular alternative to Pivotal Tracker. What did you like most about Tracker? Thanks for the kind words!", "context": "", "use_case": "project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?"}, {"id": 777000496, "item_id": 48562531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562531", "by": "rcleveng", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We love the linear guided reviews and issue tracking", "excerpt": "Cool. I was speaking more on the linear agent vs the existing integrations. We love the linear guided reviews and issue tracking so have high hopes on getting a good DX here from y'all. The claude integration - works as well as anthropic will let it work, since you can either automate it (anywhere from 'claude -p xxxx' or the api and ignore your subscription and pay by the token, or open a crapton of tabs with the te", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking and reviews", "switched_from": "", "story": "SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B"}, {"id": 775054848, "item_id": 48440928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440928", "by": "nolander", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love when I try to pull up a ticket during a meeting or a huddle and then awkwardly watch it loading/caching", "excerpt": "I love when I try to pull up a ticket during a meeting or a huddle and then awkwardly watch it loading/caching or w/e its doing for an inordinate amount of time.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775036928, "item_id": 48439808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439808", "by": "iririririr", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "their sign up also failed me. probably because i used +", "excerpt": "their sign up also failed me. probably because i used + it just told me to f off. lol. i bet this company got funded, imploded headcount, nobody see a profitable exit, and now they are all fighting each other for quarterly promotions based on whatever metric they can both improve and entice the cto. which i will go on a wild guess and say its page load performance.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775016720, "item_id": 48438545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438545", "by": "HoyaSaxa", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast.", "excerpt": "We use Linear at work. I\u2019m definitely in the minority, but I really struggle with the UX. I also wouldn\u2019t call it fast. Sure the page technically loads reasonably quickly, but half the time I see numbers updating on the page with no visual indicator that data loading is still happening.", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "issue tracking at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775012304, "item_id": 48438269, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438269", "by": "nilirl", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Am I the only that doesn't \"get\" Linear?", "excerpt": "Am I the only that doesn't \"get\" Linear? Even if speed is the killer feature, isn't an issue tracker a relatively low-frequency application for a dev? Whenever I use it, I don't feel like I'm doing anything new when compared to all the other issue trackers and Kanban boards I've used before.", "context": "developer", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775009312, "item_id": 48438082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438082", "by": "jwr", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly).", "excerpt": "Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly). It's worth it. I am genuinely impressed with their engineering and design \u2014 I aspire to attain these levels, though I lack not only the skills, but also several zeroes in my bank account, I think. Still, it's worth looking at what they do and try to get there! Big props and kudos to ", "context": "paying customer", "use_case": "bug tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 775008016, "item_id": 48438001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438001", "by": "Escapado", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love using linear", "excerpt": "I love using linear and where applicable I try to use optimistic updates in the applications I build too and I think it's a good article that touches on the most important aspects of a performant web app of that caliber. One thing I would like to point out though is that building a performant sync engine that behaves the way you would like in most cases is a non-trivial thing. If two users are offline and add, edit, ", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"}, {"id": 774720033, "item_id": 48420002, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420002", "by": "browningstreet", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "write a high-level spec to a Linear ticket", "excerpt": "I\u2019m a solopreneur working on a fairly large number of independent projects. I use Claude Code to initiate a project using Sahil\u2019s ME skill pack and write a high-level spec to a Linear ticket. If/when I\u2019m ready to work on that idea, I convert it to a project, decompose the top ticket into more issues. I also have Claude code add to each issue with deepseek, sonnet or opus tags based on which is most appropriate for th", "context": "solopreneur with many independent projects", "use_case": "project tickets", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 774666261, "item_id": 48416641, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416641", "by": "0xbadcafebee", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "At work we use Linear", "excerpt": "1) OpenCode. Despite its many shortcomings and constant bugs, it's good enough for basic work. Use the web interface so you can switch around sessions easily, keep it running in the background (on a VPS for example). Add to it MCP servers for other systems you use, like AWS Docs MCP, Atlassian MCP, Linear MCP, SearXNG MCP, Playwright MCP, etc, which basically multiplies the AI's usefulness. Tune config to block all u", "context": "", "use_case": "ticketing for AI work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 774659522, "item_id": 48416220, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416220", "by": "c0rruptbytes", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i have some pretty complicated automated workflows that use `linear`", "excerpt": "I like Zed... but AI dev workflows get complicated fast you start with claude code or codex and it's cute, but then you realize - hmm configuration is cheap, the AI can do it! then you start looking into MCPs and skills, fuck it, oh-my-pi looks awesome! wait a second? I can just have AI make my own personal AI harness! Next thing you know, you're writing the 5th version of \"little-coder\" or similar using the Pi libra", "context": "", "use_case": "automated agent workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 774277714, "item_id": 48392357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392357", "by": "ksajadi", "date": "2026-06-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Still using Linear", "excerpt": "I tend to agree with the rest of the commenters that the most likely outcome is that harnesses will include features like this. I had a slightly different issue and that was 'project-level memory' that i can use across models or harnesses (chat, claude code, etc). for a while i used Obsidian but it was not very good with hosted tools like claude.ai then i moved to a combination of Linear and Notion. Still using Linea", "context": "", "use_case": "project memory / tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mnemo \u2013 local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)"}, {"id": 771105893, "item_id": 48194118, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194118", "by": "rcleveng", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "handing over more and more tasks from Linear straight to it", "excerpt": "I have to say the new model is quite good at the basics, I've been handing over more and more tasks from Linear straight to it instead of the copy-paste into Claude dance lately. At this point, more of my complaints are on the harness side, which is odd since originally they were by far the best harness out there. Support - This is pretty much non-existant, it's community support or sales support. Interacting with Gi", "context": "", "use_case": "task tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"}, {"id": 767064481, "item_id": 47941530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941530", "by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "superset will pull the ticket from linear", "excerpt": "Recently I've started to use https://superset.sh as alternative to Warp. After the volks @mastra mentioned it. Very cool open source project. I'm actually pretty proud of the final setup I've created with it. Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude with the ticket as instruct", "context": "", "use_case": "ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 766672243, "item_id": 47917015, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917015", "by": "tekacs", "date": "2026-04-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear, Vercel, Figma, Notion, hell even Airtable... landed 'big'", "excerpt": "I would be curious what you think of the idea of Sail and Muddy being... small. Technically complex, but small in the mind of the user. Not lacking in features (you talked about that), but 'feeling small/bounded, and therefore with small divergence' to the user. Does that... fit at all with your mental model of them? I ask because I feel like Linear, Vercel, Figma, Notion, hell even Airtable... landed 'big' (felt lik", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lessons from Building Multiplayer Browsers"}, {"id": 759473920, "item_id": 47467120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467120", "by": "prxtl", "date": "2026-03-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "+1 to Linear being fantastic.", "excerpt": "+1 to Linear being fantastic. At this point, my biggest gripe with it (in comparison to Pivotal Tracker) is that I cannot put a limit on how many issues can exist in a certain state. Tracker used to do this very well with velocity. I'd be very happy if I could set a max limit of 5 on the \"todo\" state of a certain team. Helps a lot with prioritization and poorly done planning.", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "Pivotal Tracker", "story": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?"}, {"id": 759394032, "item_id": 47462127, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462127", "by": "izajahmad", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference", "excerpt": "Linear for anything engineering-focused. The keyboard shortcuts and speed make a real difference when you're context-switching constantly. For smaller projects I've gone back to a simple GitHub Projects board \u2014 sometimes the overhead of dedicated PM tools isn't worth it when the team is under 5 people.", "context": "", "use_case": "engineering project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which one of the Pivotal Tracker successors do you use?"}, {"id": 758066161, "item_id": 47379135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379135", "by": "bdangubic", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to pay for Linear for all my personal projects, built one with CC that perfectly fits my needs", "excerpt": "I used a bunch of tools from https://setapp.com/ and no longer subscribe. I used to pay for Linear for all my personal projects, built one with CC that perfectly fits my needs\u2026 I also built a myriad of small tools that help me automate bunch of busy work I used to do manually, both for professional and personal projects", "context": "", "use_case": "personal project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?"}, {"id": 749236833, "item_id": 46827302, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827302", "by": "_bramses", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives", "excerpt": "I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type \"standup\". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives and trying to honor my \"in progress\" list. [1] - https://gist.github.com/bramses/d59fb1659ec53fda9ec33f60200fe3eb [2] - https://linear.app/inte", "context": "", "use_case": "task and project tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Track Your Routine \u2013 Open-source app for task management"}, {"id": 737567136, "item_id": 46097946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097946", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water)", "excerpt": "> To avoid this problem, I created my own bug tracker software, buggy, which is a very simple C tool that parses plain Markdown files and creates a single HTML page for each bug. I love this. I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water), but this also opened the question \"why even have a seperate, disconnected tool?\" Most of my personal projects have a TODO.md somewhere with a list of th", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "Linear", "story": "Migrating Dillo from GitHub"}]}