Julian Lehr

There are two types of work. Features go into roadmaps, but where does the rest go? This short guide covers everything from zero-friction intake to effectively managing unplanned bug reports and requests.

Planning for unplanned work

Nan Yu


Past: Engineering Manager / Staff Engineer at 

Sabin Roman


Past: Staff infrastructure and platform engineer at 

Raissa Largman

In this interview our product and engineering teams explain how we plan and manage projects in Linear and keep the rest of the company up-to-date on their progress.

We believe in extending our product philosophy across all aspects of our company — especially customer support. We interviewed our in-house CX team to share how Linear uses Linear.

How we run projects at Linear

Karri Saarinen

Linear has raised a $35M Series B, led by Accel, with participation from Sequoia Capital, 01Advisors, and some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs including the founders of Slack, Vercel, and Supercell.

Linear raises $35M Series B led by Accel


Past: Customer experience and growth at 

Erin Frey

Brian Hendery

Davina Baker

Tom Moor

How we think about customer experience at Linear


Past: Senior Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at 

Tuomas Artman

How does Linear's realtime sync engine work behind the scenes? In this talk, I cover the challenges we've had scaling the sync engine, how the API around it has formed because of those challenges, and how the sync engine works in the Linear application today.

Scaling the Linear Sync Engine

We are excited to share that Cristina Cordova has joined Linear as Chief Operating Officer to help us shape the company and lead our go-to-market efforts. 

Welcoming Cristina Cordova to Linear

Andreas Eldh

Last week we introduced a new concept to Linear called Project Updates. Project Updates are short status reports that keep everyone in your company informed about the progress and health of your projects.

How we built Project Updates

Adrien Griveau

The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a misunderstanding about what settings really are.

Settings are not a design failure

2021 has been an exciting and productive year for us here at Linear. We look back on a year of progress and momentum with dozens of new features, hundreds of fixes and improvements, and thousands of completed issues.

Linear – 2021 Wrapped

We launched Linear exactly one year ago to help high-performing teams who wanted a better way to build software. Linear is fast, effortless, and simple to use. It streamlines core aspects of product team workflows so that they can focus on the work that matters while our tool does the rest.

Fast growing startups are built on Linear

We knew how to code, design and ship but we didn’t know how to prioritize effectively, set meaningful goals, or keep the momentum up week after week. While at the very beginning this is not that critical. It becomes more when you get to the stage of having a product and user to support. You need some structure to keep making meaningful progress and not going around in circles.

Building at the early stage

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $13M in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital and a slew of new product updates aimed at re-envisioning the principles and practices of building and continue developing the best in class tool for teams to create software.

Linear raises $13M in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital

We recently added contextual menus to Linear. This makes the app faster and easier to use for people who prefer their mouse.  One small thing that you won’t see or think about but will hopefully feel is a detail we designed into how sub-menus work.

Invisible details - Building contextual menus

At Linear, we believe software can feel magical. Well designed tools and practices encourage momentum and level up execution in our teams. Linear is now open for sign ups.

Practices for Building — Linear is now open for all

A changelog is a simple way to communicate your progress and culture and celebrate wins. It can be a quick way to align your team to focus on creating user value.

Startups, Write Changelogs

Our mission is to streamline how teams build great software, starting from issue tracking.

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