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Linear

🌎 linear.app

Linear is a purpose-built tool designed for planning and building products, focusing on streamlining issues, projects, and roadmaps. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Linear aims to empower product teams with a combination of UI elegance and high performance. The company operates fully remote and has gained popularity among high-impact companies for its project management and issue tracking capabilities.

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Linear - Latest News and Updates

• Linear now supports Scale's high velocity in AI development, replacing Vercel as a highlighted customer.
• Linear introduced improvements for SLAs, templates, and Jira & GitHub issues sync, including business day SLAs, nested sub-issues in templates, and enhanced notifications for issue syncing.
• Fireflies.ai announced a new integration with Linear to automate task creation and improve productivity.
• Linear has achieved a 4.5x increase in active users, a 2x increase in reported issues, and 2x faster issue closing times, with companies like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo switching to their platform.
• Linear's app 'Changes' now offers an in-app purchase to unlock all features for $4.99, reduced from $29.99.

• On November 21, Sabin discussed Linear's efficient operations with a lean team and their unique approach to immediate bug fixing.
• Linear's customer experience team held an in-person meeting in New Orleans to discuss 2025 goals.
• Tyler Hitchcock has joined Linear as an Account Executive in the United States, previously serving as a Sr. Account Executive at Ionic: An OutSystems Company.
• Linear supports over 10,000 companies with a team of 60, including 25 engineers, by focusing on creativity, maintaining a remote-first environment, and avoiding email for internal communication.
• Chris Morrell discussed planning sprints with a custom Linear app on a podcast.

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