Voices of the creators building with Linear
- Episode 10
Keeping things simple
Christophe Pasquier
CEO, Founder
Slite helps remote teams share ideas, save knowledge, and work together anytime, any place.
Christophe shares why he keeps organizational processes simple and ideally similar across different working teams, especially at an earlier stage. He chooses tools that encourage this and finds simple processes and automated workflows can help the team focus on more important things like longterm goals.
Building with Linear since 2019/07
- Episode 9
Working autonomously
Emil Sjölander
CEO, Co-founder
Visly is a design tool built for developers that lets you rapidly design and build production-ready components.
Emil describes how his team uses Linear to manage projects and track bugs. It makes it easy for him as a manager to view progress and know where his attention should go. It helps his team know what work to prioritize.
Building with Linear since 2019/08 - Episode 8
Elevating your design sense
Thomas Paul Mann
CEO, Co-founder
Raycast lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes.
Thomas shares how using thoughtful, well-designed tools changes how you think about products and challenges you to build higher quality features and user experiences.
Building with Linear since 2019/12
- Episode 7
Sharing product ownership
Brian Vallelunga
CEO, Founder
Doppler is your team’s central source of truth for env vars and secrets.
Brian shares why you should encourage your teammates to be stakeholders in their domains and give them a voice in product development. Instead of a typical system where a product owner manages product-related work, everyone on his team creates their own issues in Linear and feels free to come up with ideas to improve the product and company.
Building with Linear since 2019/07 Michael Lukaszczyk
CEO, Co-founder
GraphCMS is the first native GraphQL Headless CMS and lets you rapidly deliver digital content at scale.
Michael explains how Linear's speed and performance changed his team's habits around triaging issues. This has had multiple benefits from reducing bugs to making it easier to ship a high-quality product.
Building with Linear since 2019/09
- Episode 5
Adapting to remote work
Danielle Schugars
Software Engineer
Render is the easiest cloud to host all your apps and websites.
By keeping all work tracked in one place and statuses up to date, they made an easy transition to remote work during COVID-19. This has been especially helpful when working with customer support, since engineers are able to look up issues immediately to see what bugs or feature requests have been reported in the past and review discussions the team had around them.
Building with Linear since 2019/09 - Episode 4
Prioritizing product engineering
Peter Piekarczyk
CTO, Co-founder
Draftbit lets you create, customize, and launch mobile apps all from your browser.
They focus on product work that tangibly improves the user experience and find it not only makes users happy but also motivates the team and changes how engineers approach and estimate their work.Building with Linear since 2020/01
- Episode 3
Managing projects effectively
Kurt Ruppel
CTO, Co-founder
Middesk is the easiest way to verify the legitimacy of any business.
They share project management responsibilities across the team to encourage product ownership, save time and deliver better work.
Building with Linear since 2019/09
- Episode 2
Building a product knowledge base
Amanda Peyton
CEO, Co-founder
Braid lets you create flexible group accounts for shared spending.
They work more effectively by keeping all product plans, changes and history in one place.
Building with Linear since 2019/08
- Episode 1
Finding product-market fit
Troy Goode
CEO, Founder
Courier (YC S19) is building a new streamlined platform for notifications.
They believe fast execution is key to proving product-market fit and use tools that help them do that.
Building with Linear since 2019/03