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Ishjot Walia's avatar

It is a great insight that Big Tech/Big Company experience helps you understand where your technical choices will limit you in the future. It’s hard to predict if you haven’t seen it before, and can lead to over engineering without the right experience.

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Edvins Antonovs's avatar

Great story for sure. I like how Linear focused on quality over quantity despite receiving the investments.

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Piotr Czech's avatar

As a person who works with Microsoft tools and products, I see copy-paste of Azure DevOps in the early stage of the development but with a better UI.

I cannot understand why this product was compared with Atlassian if for example Jira is so weak and complex that it shouldn't even be compared (it's just my opinion when I worked with it).

I wonder if this product moves out of the niche because the problem with enterprise agreements is that companies need to maintain many tools they don't know how to maintain. To reduce complexity, they unify tools to max two providers. You will pay less for maintenance, and you will get more in bulk even if you spend 30-50% more in advance but mostly you cannot compete these bulked offers.

As a person who uses .NET tools, I pay only one subscription to get all the necessary tools integrated into the ecosystem.

For example, one of my clients I worked with decided they would quit Slack before 2024 (0,5 mln users) and migrate into MS Teams + Azure DevOps ecosystem.

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Dmitry Aflitonov's avatar

The story looks awesome. But were there any failures or mistakes at Linear during all the time?

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John S's avatar

That would be good to know!

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Taylor's avatar

I really enjoyed this one. I haven’t worked in Big Tech or a startup so both of those perspectives were fascinating to me. Tuomas’ excitement and thoughtfulness were really engaging and inspiring.

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Kelvin Omereshone's avatar

Truly insightful. I moved to using Linear after reading this newsletter issue and it’s really good. I’ve been a fan of Basecamp and hesitated but Linear doesn’t seem bloated at all. I like it

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