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Inside Mercury’s six-month journey building with AI agents
This past March, Mercury held an internal hackathon and Matt Russell knew exactly what he wanted to work on.
Building our way: Announcing our Series C
We’ve raised an $82M Series C at a $1.25B. We could write the usual post about how excited we are for what’s next — but I won’t. The truth is, not much changes after a raise. We go back to building.
Why is quality so rare?
The modern world has made huge advances in knowledge, technology, and skill. We can build faster than ever. Yet quality still feels so rare. So many things feel unfinished, or forgettable – why?
Design for the AI age
For decades, interfaces have guided users along predefined roads. Think files and folders, buttons and menus, screens and flows. That changes with AI and LLMs.Changelog
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Building what customers need, not just what they ask for
Steve Jobs famously said customers don't know what they want until you show it to them. Henry Ford quipped that people would have asked for faster horses, not automobiles.
The profitable startup
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong. Why focus on profits when money was easy to come by?
Why and how Scale migrated to Linear
As Scale grew, it needed a project management tool to grow with it. Product and engineering leaders banded together to propose Linear and launch it across the organization, seeing an immediate impact.
Simplifying support at scale: How Pleo uses Linear Asks
Pleo has used Linear since 2021, when their engineering, product, and design teams adopted Linear to track issues and manage work across hundreds of projects.
How we built multi-region support for Linear
How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ)
A design reset (part I)
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product
Descript’s internal guide for using Linear as your work operating system
Post mortem on Linear incident from Jan 24th, 2024
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