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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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Updates as of Sep 26, 2024

• Linear's Sales & Success team closed a Fortune 20 customer and over 50% of the Forbes AI 50 companies, with average deal size doubling since earlier this year.
• Linear launched a new iOS app that received a 5-star rating from Joakim Green.
• Jori Lallo from Linear announced they are prioritizing the development of issue templates for their mobile experience.
• Kenneth Skovhus, Software Engineer at Linear, announced a new caching strategy that reduces API test times by 1.7X and cuts CI time from 8 to 3 minutes.
• Plain integrates with Linear to provide seamless customer support within issue tracking tools.

• Slite chose Linear as their project management tool for its balance of functionality and simplicity after finding other tools like Trello and ClickUp either too limited or too complex.
• Linear has a highly polished UI and dedicated a period solely to fixing usability issues.

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