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My entire team wept with joy when I migrated them off JIRAX post
A security practitioner who moved his team from Jira to Linear says the team was overjoyed to leave Jira and had not heard of the tool he picked. It does not judge Linear overall.
Positive
Linear's proven really useful as a store of state for agentsX post
A former Stripe staff engineer says his team reads Linear less than before and uses it as stored state for agents: one agent files issues and another works them.
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Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission?Engineering talk, YouTube
WorkOS engineer Aaron Tainter uses Linear as one of the controlled systems in an agent workflow and shows policy checks that deny or route risky actions for approval.
"Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission? - Aaron Tainter | init() 2026…"
Positive
Why the Ecosystem Matters: AWS IntroEngineering leadership talk, YouTube
Jellyfish leaders describe an engineering data ecosystem that connects more than fifty integrations, including Linear and Jira, to give leaders visibility into development workflows.
"Why the Ecosystem Matters: Opening Remarks & AWS Intro | AI Impact Week Day 3…"
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It is a session at Jellyfish's partner event, co-presented by Jellyfish's head of partnerships. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Negative
Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their company tried Linear, but engineering would not leave Jira for something so locked down compared with Jira's customization.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
At the commenter's company product leadership manages initiatives and pre-delivery project stages in Linear, and filters let everyone see only their part of a shared backlog.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Moved off Notion to Linear a year ago, would never go back, and now keeps strategy documents in Google Docs.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their team uses Linear exclusively after leaving Jira; it lacks easy documentation, which Claude artifacts now cover for them.
Positive
Comment on: How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMsHacker News comment
A developer has an AI agent create tickets on the team's Linear board and says resulting PRs are more detailed and easier to understand.
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Linear Codex integration not working.GitHub issue on openai/codex
When the team delegates through the Codex Linear plugin, Codex starts the task but never reports back, and Linear always shows the agent as not started. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Comment on: A year of Claude Code alongside Hermes and Codex: the problem isn't the coding, it's the 12 tasks every session leaves behindReddit comment (r/ClaudeCode)
Has Claude file follow-up tasks into the ops team's Linear in an Ask stage and close them when done, which kept better than a shared markdown file.
Negative
Comment on: Who else fucking hates Linear?Reddit comment (r/Linear)
The team went from Jira to Shortcut to Linear and back to Shortcut, switching whenever a tool's growing feature set became unwieldy.
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Using Linear for waterfall projects with fixed start and go-live dates: how are you structuring it?Reddit post (r/Linear)
The team tracks development in Linear but runs fixed-date waterfall deployments, and finds Linear built for agile, unsure projects and target dates hold up. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: Who else fucking hates Linear?Reddit comment (r/Linear)
The team uses Linear together and the author has agents sort and make sense of its issues, which works really well.
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The best roadmapping tool for LinearReddit post and the author's reply (r/Linear)
Rolling Linear out to about 90 people, with four groups keeping roadmaps in it, they need an external roadmap tool so commercial teams can follow without seats. It does not judge Linear overall.
Mixed
Comment on: AI usage patterns in software teamsHacker News comment
An engineer building AI pipelines for their team does that work outside Linear's AI features and expects automation to make Linear's interface replaceable.
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Issues and Project Templates access when creating with MCPGitHub issue on linear/linear
The team creates most issues through coding agents but cannot get them to use Linear templates via MCP, so it duplicates templates in the repository. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Negative
As a small team, I just think small teams don't need PM SaaS tools anymoreReddit post and the author's reply (r/agile)
A former founder's 10-person team loved Linear's UI but stopped opening it once agents managed tickets over MCP; in the agent era they would not use Linear again.
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We stopped paying for LinearPersonal blog post, xiaofeidu.com
Loved Linear's UI, yet the ten-person team's backlog bloated and sprints overflowed; once work was managed through the Linear MCP server the UI stopped mattering and they moved to GitHub issues.
Negative
Comment on: 10 years in corporate, moving to a startup, need a new PM toolReddit comment (r/projectmanagement)
Linear was forced on the agency's PMO and does not fit agency work, though the author would use it for a startup product team until it could afford Jira.
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[Feature Request] Expose Loops (recurring agent jobs) via GraphQL API & MCPGitHub issue on linear/linear
The team manages its Linear workspace as code, but Linear Agent Loops can only be configured in the UI, leaving recurring agent jobs outside review and audit. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: When something fails, how do you figure out what engineering work is actually affected?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)
The team plans work up front in Linear and writes dependencies into tickets, so affected work is known when something fails.
Negative
Comment on: What did your team outgrow in Linear?Reddit comment (r/Linear)
Asked what the team outgrew in Linear, answers the lack of custom fields: they need their own workflow, and Linear's does not fit.
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Question about projects and linking issuesReddit post (r/Linear)
Following the Linear Method's finite projects, an enterprise product team has nowhere good to keep postponed nice-to-have issues once a project must be completed. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Custom fields in Linear, to integrate into WorkatoReddit post (r/Linear)
Replacing Jira, the organization could not find where to add workspace-level custom fields in Linear to sync from Salesforce through Workato. It does not judge Linear overall.
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How do you delegate work?Reddit post (r/EngineeringManagers)
An engineering manager keeps Linear projects with milestones and dates visible company-wide, yet the CEO still feels they lack visibility and wants finer task breakdowns. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: How do you organize PRDs for agentic development?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
The team keeps PRDs and issues in Linear and has Claude work from them through the MCP, valuing cross-repository scope and a UI for hand edits.
Positive
How Coinbase Rebuilt Product Development Around AI Agents | Arize Observe 2026Conference talk, Arize Observe 2026 (YouTube)
Coinbase's Chintan Turakhia reports that adopting Linear was one of the first changes the company made for agent work and recommends it, and describes turning the team's tickets into pull requests.
Not counted
Linear features Coinbase and Turakhia in a customer story on its own site. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Positive
Comment on: How do you track when a feature that spans multiple tickets is actually ready to test?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)
After moving to Linear the team treats each feature as a project with milestones and a lead, which makes readiness visible when done properly.
Mixed
Linear is always a lagging indicatorHacker News post
An engineer argues Linear used by higher-ups as a visibility tool is a lagging indicator, since a well-written ticket is nearly done once agents handle implementation.
Positive
How to build a product team OS with Emma BurrowsLeadership webinar, YouTube
Former Stripe UK CTO Emma Burrows describes a product operating system that keeps organizational context fresh by connecting sources including Linear, while retaining human judgment for product decisions.
"How to build a product team OS with Emma Burrows (ex Stripe UK CTO)…"
Mixed
Comment on: Which GitHub features are needed in a code forge before you can migrate?Lobsters comment
His team is starting on Linear because GitHub Projects cannot track issues across public and private repositories or give planning views, though he would prefer a free alternative.
Mixed
Comment on: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settingsHacker News comment
A developer does not use Cursor Cloud Agents because they cannot connect to the company's Linear workspace.
Mixed
How do you keep external clients updated without giving them workspace access?Reddit post (r/Linear)
The team loves Linear internally, but clients cannot follow progress; view access confused them, so status updates stay manual and slip when cycles get busy.
Mixed
solving communication between teammates' agentsReddit post (r/ClaudeCode)
The team shares Linear across members' agents, but many agent-to-agent handoffs are too small for a ticket, so they forward messages by hand.
Positive
Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business?Conference talk, YouTube
WorkOS engineer Garrett Galow describes an internal workspace that answers business questions against Linear and other systems, with validation before generated queries become reusable widgets.
"Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business? Garrett Galow, WorkOS…"
Positive
An engineer you manage from a group chatEngineering blog post, Niptao blog
A four-person company runs a Claude Code loop that uses Linear over MCP as its work queue, state machine, and memory, and reports two merged root-cause fixes on day one.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?Hacker News comment
A developer recommends giving AI agents a ticketing system to plan and persist work, and uses Linear for that at work.
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Positive
Comment on: Cloud Agents are impressive, but what tasks are you actually trusting them with?Reddit comment (r/cursor)
The team triggers Cursor cloud agents from Linear tickets to build features into draft pull requests with screenshots and recordings, so nobody needs to run the code locally.
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Positive
Comment on: +50k spent in the past 6 months - I can tackle your questionsReddit comment (r/cursor)
In-app feedback flows through the team's backend into Linear, which opens the branch and PR automatically, a loop the author says saves much time.
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Positive
Comment on: I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boardsHacker News comment
A small team left Jira for Linear about two years ago over Jira's slowness and does not want to go back.
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Comment on: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60BHacker News comment
A company of about 25 engineers has Cursor cloud agents pre-process its Linear tickets before people triage them. It does not judge Linear overall.
Negative
I stopped asking my engineers for status updates. I just read their agent traces now.Reddit post (r/EngineeringManagers)
After losing their head of engineering they moved from Jira to Linear hoping it would fix a failing process; it did not, and they still chased status by hand.
Mixed
Comment on: I still prefer MCP over skillsHacker News comment
A developer says Linear's MCP, like other vendors', cannot be scoped below full user access, which blocks approval where legal requires hard limits.
Mixed
Comment on: With Linear becoming more prevalent in the product world, what becomes the new purpose for product managers?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Just moved to Linear. An AI automation created four GitLab branches for a senior developer and closed them with no changes, which the commenter calls teething issues, and scoping tickets becomes the main job.
Negative
Comment on: With Linear becoming more prevalent in the product world, what becomes the new purpose for product managers?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
After four months of agent-driven work, the commenter's team stopped using Linear; plans live as Markdown in the repository and are approved and merged there.
Mixed
Comment on: Are you team MCP or team CLI?Hacker News comment
A developer has agents use Linear's GraphQL API and skip its MCP server, since the workplace's defined workflow makes the full MCP a waste of context.
Positive
Comment on: Atlassian is killing Opsgenie and the JSM migration path nearly broke my team's on-call process.Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)
A manager moved their teams from Jira and JSM to Linear and Linear Asks in early 2026; documenting tasks got easier and reporting became simpler and transparent.
Mixed
Comment on: sidelined at a 50-person startup for trying to fix the chaos. Is it over?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)
At a 50-person startup, engineers keep work in Slack and create Linear tickets only for a few days after each request, despite their mandate.
Mixed
Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)
The team's Claude-to-Linear task pipeline worked when it worked, but the MCP created duplicate tasks and lost track of phases, so specs moved back into the repo.
Mixed
Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)
Working without Linear, the team misses its visual blocking dependencies most; their markdown substitute is nowhere near as clean.
Positive
Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)
An engineer on the team built agent skills that write documentation in Linear, break up tasks and implement them, and the commenter enjoys using them daily.
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Mixed
Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit post (r/startups)
At their startup the co-founder stopped using Linear and tracks issues in the agents' repo, and small bugs now go from Claude spec to fix without touching Linear.
Positive
Comment on: Looking for 5-10 Leaders as Design PartnersReddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)
The team moved to Linear and many of the problems it had with Jira went away.
Negative
Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadHacker News comment
ZAR dropped Linear for a homegrown experiment-tracking system; the commenter says working from a backlog is counterproductive and prioritization should rest on empirical data.
Positive
How we built a Linear coding agent: the hard partsEngineering blog post, daily.dev
daily.dev built Huginn, an agent inside Linear that turns a delegated ticket into a plan and pull requests, and says its bug and feedback backlog shrank sharply. Linear archiving agent threads wiped the plan field, so it keeps state in labels.
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No way to distinguish @mention-triggered from assignment-triggered AgentSessionEvent webhooksGitHub issue on linear/linear
Building a Linear agent app, the author cannot tell assignment-triggered from mention-triggered agent sessions in webhooks and relies on a fragile string check. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?Hacker News comment
An engineer built a bridge from Linear to the company's Coder installation so colleagues can assign Linear work to a Claude Code agent.
Mixed
Anyone else having trouble with the UI?Reddit post (r/Linear)
Months after the team moved from ClickUp, the author still finds Linear's monochrome UI hard to read.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone successfully using Automations for Slack-to-PR workflows yet?Reddit comment (r/cursor)
The team files tickets through the Linear agent in Slack and assigns them to Cursor agents, preferring Linear in the middle as the source of truth.
Positive
Comment on: Cloud agents + AI code review have completely changed how our team ships bug fixes (Slack → Linear → Cursor → GitHub → merged in <1 hour)Reddit comment (r/cursor)
Bug reports go from Slack to a Linear ticket that Linear drafts well, then to a Cursor agent, AI review and human review before merge.
Positive
Designing human-agent engineering teamsReddit post (r/EngineeringManagers)
Reports great success using Linear for ticket triage alongside Claude Code for pull requests, while the team's harder problem is adapting rituals to AI agents.
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Positive
Our team finally let go of the last few tickets on Jira and completely moved to LinearX post
A Coinbase India product lead says the team closed its last Jira tickets and moved fully to Linear, and calls the Slack agent integration a piece of art.
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Auto-archiving of completed issues not workingGitHub issue on linear/linear
On the Free plan, issues completed nine weeks earlier still counted toward the 250-issue limit despite a one-month auto-archive setting, so the workspace at 276 issues could not create new ones. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
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Our migration to Linear was simple. Delete and start fresh.X post
Coinbase's Chintan Turakhia reports that the team migrated to Linear by deleting the old backlog and starting fresh, since priority work should already be in progress. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClawHacker News comment
A team runs a shared OpenClaw agent that reads what shipped in GitHub and Linear to run standups and summarize untracked work each morning.
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Positive
How we reached bug zero using LinearEngineering blog post, Sourcebot blog
Sourcebot runs a zero-bug policy in Linear: GitHub issues become labeled Linear bugs automatically, priority-based SLAs of 2 and 7 days apply, and dashboards track progress weekly.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone automating the gap between Linear tickets and actual implementation?Reddit comment (r/ExperiencedDevs)
The team assigns Linear tickets to Cursor cloud agents, which start from the team's own image snapshot, do the work and open a pull request.
Mixed
Anyone automating the gap between Linear tickets and actual implementation?Reddit post and the author's reply (r/ExperiencedDevs)
Codex pulling Linear issue specs worked well but ran from the terminal, so they built an agent the team assigns Linear tickets to like a teammate.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
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[Feature request] Pull Request Reviews for (self-hosted) GitLabGitHub issue on linear/linear
A team on self-hosted GitLab praises Linear's pull request reviews on GitHub and asks for the same on GitLab merge requests. It does not judge Linear overall.
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So We Built Our Own Agentic Developer…and then the CEO shipped a featureEngineering blog post, Fullscript Builder's Corner
Fullscript engineers assign Linear issues to Nitro, an in-house agent that opens pull requests; it works best on scoped tasks and struggles with ambiguous ones. It does not judge Linear overall.
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[Feature Request] - Filter on project membersGitHub issue on linear/linear
As the team moved more work into projects it missed a project-member filter in the sidebar views it uses for standups; Linear pointed to the main filters. It does not judge Linear overall.
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[Feature Request] - Multiple JIRA syncs in 1 workspace?GitHub issue on linear/linear
The team wants to work in Linear between two partners on separate Jira instances, but Linear syncs one Jira instance per workspace and has no plan to change. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
My Claude Code'd App just hit 1750 users, here's how I did it:Reddit post (r/ClaudeCode)
Works with a product manager through Linear and pulls the PM's feedback into the app via Claude Code's Linear MCP.
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Mixed
Comment on: For those using Linear, what are you guys using for product prioritization/planning?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Moving the team from Atlassian to Linear lost the Jira Product Discovery link, so product prioritization now runs in a separate tool integrated with Linear.
Positive
Using AI to capture ideas from customer callsReddit post (r/ProductManagement)
The team built an agent that turns customer-call insights into code and Agent-labeled Linear tickets; it shipped three small improvements in its first week.
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I forced our team to stop creating tickets (on Linear in our case)X post
Trylapis's founder stopped the team from creating Linear tickets and moved coordination to Slack, and reports pull request shipping speed up 250% with the same number of new bugs. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Comment on: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus farHacker News comment
A small team set up Claude Code so that opening a pull request fetches or creates the Linear ticket, asks what was tested, and requests reviewers. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Insights are useless unless you upgrade to Enterprise?Reddit post (r/Linear)
On the Business plan, the team needs dashboards because filtered issue lists fall short, and dashboards are Enterprise-only. After learning Insights work on those lists, they still plan to upgrade. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: Hacker News comment (parent story removed)Hacker News comment
When Linear released its agents support, the commenter's engineers simply offloaded simpler tickets to GitHub Copilot.
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Positive
Comment on: Productboard is a lot of work - what would you keep?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
The team canceled Productboard and keeps product feedback in Linear, tagging feedback into the engineering team's projects.
Positive
Embedding Agents in Linear with Dana LawsonConference talk, YouTube
Netlify CTO Dana Lawson presents an agent built into Linear and argues that useful AI should live inside the workflow where teams already work.
"Embedding Agents in Linear with Dana Lawson…"
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Time Tracking in LinearReddit post (r/Linear)
The team must log hours per issue, split between non-profit and for-profit work, for IRS compliance and asks how to record actual hours in Linear. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Mixed
Forgot to stop sprint in Jira, now our reports are completely messed upReddit post and the author's reply (r/agile)
After 18 months on Linear the company moved to Jira because Linear could not handle many projects and releases at scale, though the author misses auto-completing cycles.
Negative
Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosReddit comment (r/devops)
After a year and a half on Linear their team has never had a good experience and they would rather use Jira, perhaps because product owners expect Jira.
Positive
Comment on: What if you don't need MCP at all?Hacker News comment
An engineer prefers Linear's remote MCP server because Claude gets Linear access after one sign-in, and the team shares it by committing the config.
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Mixed
Still Using Linear? Curious - Has Linear Fixed These 3 Things Yet? (Or Are We Still Patching Them With Workarounds?)Reddit post (r/Linear)
After 18 months on Linear, now running client work for an agency, the author still patches release tracking, hour logging and docs with other tools.
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How to Create Visual Reports in Linear/from Linear?Reddit post (r/Linear)
Needs visual reports on estimates, progress, velocity and capacity, but the company's Business plan lacks Linear's Enterprise dashboards. It does not judge Linear overall.
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The Linear Team Made a Good MCPIndependent evaluation, Fiberplane blog
Fiberplane measured Linear's MCP server in Claude Code: its 23 tools raised context use from 61k to 78k tokens, 17.3k of it tool definitions. The authors rate its task-oriented design highly and ask for leaner output. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Negative
Comment on: Looking for a sprint planning tool that doesn't suckReddit comment (r/agile)
After recently switching from Jira, the team finds Linear worse in almost every respect except its speed.
Mixed
Comment on: Has anyone actually tried Devin before?Reddit comment (r/cursor)
Early Devin adoption on a Linear team often failed to clear backlog work, and with no built-in Linear integration they maintained their own, eroding the value.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?Hacker News comment
After a developer found Linear, the commenter's employer tried it and moved the whole company off its earlier tracker within about a month.
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Anyone here successfully working with Cursor agents and Linear?Reddit post (r/Linear)
The team tried assigning Linear tickets to Cursor background agents, but the agent refused to switch to the specified branch, so small UI fixes stalled. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Mixed
Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?Reddit post (r/Linear)
Past four or five developers, the team spends standups working out who does what, tickets stall, and it needs better visibility into what gets done.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?Reddit comment (r/Linear)
With 30 members on Linear, things are fine so far, and custom views track work and performance.
Mixed
Comment on: Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?Reddit comment (r/Linear)
The team built its own Windmill automations to keep GitHub and Linear in sync and get a better view of team progress.
Positive
Linear for Marketing Teams feat. RudderStackCustomer workflow talk, YouTube
RudderStack's product marketing team describes migrating to Linear, running launches through initiatives and cycles, and coordinating marketing and product work in one workspace.
"Linear for Marketing Teams feat. Rudderstack…"
Not counted
Published on Linear's own YouTube channel. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Positive
Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Moved engineering sprints from Jira and Asana to Linear for cleaner boards and faster navigation; adoption was smooth, though they keep monday dev for cross-team visibility.
Positive
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
For the commenter's organization the main gain is communication: a Slack channel per project fed by Linear webhooks gives non-technical stakeholders full visibility.
Mixed
Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit post (r/ProductManagement)
Six months after moving a six-person AI product team from Jira, the UI is fast and the team uses it without complaint. Advanced reporting is missing, integrations are thinner, and cost rose 40%.
Mixed
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their company moved from Notion to Linear, which is built for running sprints, but triage, projects, and tickets are still a chore the commenter would rather hand to someone else.
Mixed
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their team switched and finds Linear smoother day to day, but Jira had deeper reports; fine for a small team, painful for a big organization.
Positive
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their small startup moved from ClickUp to Linear, which strikes the right balance of features and speed; Jira would be bloated for them.
Negative
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Runs a 20-person startup that needs backlogs for design, marketing, and sales as well as development; Linear was only OK, and the company stopped using it for Google Docs.
Positive
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Linear's reports and saved issue filters are limited, so the commenter built custom ones on the API. The team, many of them former Jira users, loves Linear because its opinions make it harder to misconfigure.
Negative
Comment on: How many project management tools did you try before finding the right PM software for your team?Reddit comment (r/projectmanagement)
The team left Linear because its insistence on cycles clashed with planning tasks around days and weeks.
Mixed
why do you like it?Reddit post (r/Linear)
After a merger moved the company from Jira to Linear, work Jira automated now means clicking through labels by hand.
Mixed
Why are milestones inside projects and not initiatives?Reddit post (r/Linear)
The team follows the Linear Method's short projects, but milestones live only inside projects, so the timeline cannot show milestones spanning several projects.
Positive
Comment on: Best way to handle handoffs between different functions?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
After leaving Atlassian, the PM runs each major item as a Linear project holding all documentation, with developers owning milestone issues and stakeholders getting weekly updates.
Positive
Comment on: Is Everything Fine with Jira?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Having introduced Jira at a startup two years earlier, they moved the development department to Linear this year because Jira is painful to configure; no regrets.
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Use Claude Code as AgentReddit post (r/Linear)
Wanted to delegate first-pass bug fixes from the team's Linear to Claude Code, but only Cursor agents were first class and the Claude plugin was hard to set up. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
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Head of Product: drowning in Linear + Slack + Figma + HubSpot… how do you keep a single thread of truth?Reddit post (r/ProductManagement)
A head of product treats Linear as engineering's source of truth in theory, but decisions made in Slack, Figma, and the CRM stay scattered and never reach a single record. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: What Tools Do You Use to Manage Projects Without Drowning in Admin Work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
A team of about 15 ran Linear for years with great success, then moved to Jira as step one of an agile rollout, which everyone hates.
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How do you account for PTOs when planning your cycles?Reddit post (r/Linear)
Asks how to mark a team's capacity for time off in Linear so cycle metrics are not skewed; for now the team adjusts expectations by hand. It does not judge Linear overall.
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Positive
Comment on: Our company's systems are a mess of disconnected tools , how do i implement this flow ?Reddit comment (r/EngineeringManagers)
At a previous company with seven tracking systems, they chose Linear over Jira as the single source of truth because it handled product roadmapping better, piloting with one team.
Positive
Comment on: Has anyone else been using Height.app? It's shutting down - what are you moving to?Reddit comment (r/projectmanagement)
After Height shut down the team moved to Linear and finds it far superior, citing timeline views and Linear Asks linking Slack and email to tickets.
Positive
Building the platform for agent coordinationConference talk, YouTube
Linear's Head of Engineering Tom Moor explains the platform's plan to make agents first-class participants in software teams and coordinate their work through Linear.
"Building the platform for agent coordination, Tom Moor, Linear…"
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Its speaker is Linear's Head of Engineering. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Mixed
Comment on: Rethinking CLI interfaces for AIHacker News comment
A builder of an MCP add-on reports that agents using Linear's MCP predictably fail to create issues without guidance on project selection and description format.
Positive
Comment on: how many more AI dev tools are we going to get?Reddit comment (r/cursor)
On a Linear and Notion team, labeling a Linear ticket sends Devin off to work; complex tasks still need finishing by hand, but it saves time.
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Positive
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
A team lets PMs assign work to the Xander agent from Linear comments, then check the resulting pull request in a deployed environment before engineers review it.
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Struggling to map ICE scoring to Linear's priority propertyReddit post (r/Linear)
Migrating its roadmap from Notion, the small team finds Linear's fixed priority field too blunt for its ICE scoring. It does not judge Linear overall.
Mixed
I'm planning cycles wrong and I want to improveReddit post (r/Linear)
Six months in, an eight-engineer team likes Linear except cycle planning; no saved view shows per-engineer points and assignments, so they plan in a side project.
Positive
Comment on: Everything's a bug (or an issue)Hacker News comment
Their 5 to 6 developer greenfield team is very happy with Linear's user experience, and it ties well into GitHub and other tools such as Notion.
Positive
I moved our engineering org from Jira to LinearX post
Bold Metrics' co-founder and CTO moved the engineering organization from Jira to Linear and calls it one of the best tool changes he has made.
Positive
How I use Linear to manage my SaaSVideo, YouTube
A founder working with two developers and a support person runs roadmap, bugs, and features in Linear and reads each issue's checklist to see progress without asking his developer.
Mixed
Our startup's journey from Notion to LinearX article (long-form post)
Macro's CEO reports that his engineers moved the 18-person startup from Notion to Linear on their own. He rates it faster than Notion and probably better than Jira, yet the board still falls out of date while planning lives in docs and Slack.
Mixed
Amp up the stone age-esque automation of LinearGitHub issue on linear/linear
A former Jira user scaling engineering and product at a new org on Linear finds its workflow automation basic and the tool limiting as the org grows.
Positive
Comment on: If your customers don't talk, NPS is a vanity metricHacker News comment
Has moved multiple teams off their ticketing systems to Linear and calls the switch extremely painless and worth it.
Negative
Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
A CPO ran Linear for two years, then moved the entire operation to Jira: it is pleasant for engineers working tickets but ignores product people and others not assigned tickets.
Positive
Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their team chose Linear for its design, speed, and opinionated workflows; Jira and Asana offered so many options that customizing them became work about the work.
Mixed
Constant linear issuesReddit post (r/Linear)
The team loves Linear, but long issues roll from cycle to cycle, and it is unsure every issue can be split to fit a cycle.
Positive
Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their previous organization moved from Jira to Linear for easier management, a friendlier UX, and less clutter.
Positive
Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Their engineers love Linear and the product manager finds it more intuitive across the organization than Asana, though they miss a personal task arrangement separate from the shared one.
Positive
Switching to Linear was another transformational change in Brex 3.0.X post
Brex's CTO calls switching to Linear a transformational change and says engineers enjoy using it, so they use it more.
Not counted
The post quotes Linear's own recruiting campaign, and Linear features Brex in a customer story on its site. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Positive
Phasing Out from JIRACompany blog post, Galliot
Galliot's co-founder says the agency moved from Jira to Linear in late 2024, engineers took to its shortcuts, and it now recommends Linear to small and medium client teams.
Positive
Any tool recommendations for dynamic resource planning?Reddit post (r/ProductManagement)
The startup loves Linear for sprints and GitHub sync, but planning hires needs a portfolio view of projects and headcount that it looks for elsewhere.
Positive
I think I have found my new coding workflow, but I'm still the bottleneckX post
A solo builder plans milestones and tickets in Linear with a lead agent. Every 20 minutes it hands pending tickets to idle Claude and Codex agents and logs decisions as comments, for about US$363 a month. He reports that he is the bottleneck.
Positive
Claude found a better way to communicate with Codex using LinearX post
A builder has Claude and Codex coordinate through Linear and reports they completed more than 40 tickets in two days.
Mixed
Comment on: How are you using Linear in your agentic engineering workflows?Reddit comment (r/Linear)
Keeps context in Linear but uses the Linear agent only for Slack task creation and simple loops, finding Loops noisy and unreliable.
Positive
Comment on: Docker AgentHacker News comment
Dreads using Jira at work even with a simple setup, and loves Linear, so the complaint is with Jira and not ticketing in general.
Positive
Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Calls Linear an example of how much better new SaaS can be and does not think they could go back to Jira.
No opinion stated
MCP: return explicit null delegate fields for unassigned issuesGitHub issue on linear/linear
MCP issue reads omitted delegate fields on unassigned issues, so agent handoff code could not safely delegate; Linear released a fix for explicitly requested fields. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
No opinion stated
[Feature Request] Show initiatives, projects and issues together in one custom viewGitHub issue
A Linear custom view holds one entity type, so seeing the initiatives, projects, and issues one person owns takes three of them. It does not judge Linear overall.
Positive
Comment on: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upHacker News comment
Their team has used Linear heavily for years and finds it twice as useful as a year ago after six months of rapid releases.
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: Self Improving AgentOrchestrator SkillHacker News comment
A developer has run orchestrated plan, generate and evaluate agent loops in a team-visible way through Linear and the Cyrus agent, later moving to cheaper agents.
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upHacker News comment
Still a great product, but the commenter feels Linear has lost its careful product design as it ships faster, though it is not drifting toward Jira.
Positive
Comment on: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upHacker News comment
Writes specifications in Linear and points coding agents at an issue, so Linear's history has become a main source of agent context.
Mixed
Replacing Linear MCP with linear-cliPersonal blog post, The Big Log
A backend developer who likes Linear replaced its MCP server with an unofficial CLI for agents, because the MCP returns bloated payloads costing 5k to 25k tokens per session.
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from othersHacker News comment
A co-founder tags Linear tickets for overnight automation by local agents and says the bottleneck is triaged, well-written tickets and review. Agent capacity does not hold the work back.
Negative
Comment on: Has AI destroyed product craft at your company too?Reddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Running about 40 agents alone, the founder finds Linear too token-heavy to use as working context and too fragmented to use as the durable source of truth.
No opinion stated
Automations Not Setting Issue Status On PR MergeGitHub issue
An automation that moved issues to In Staging on merge to dev stopped working for several weeks, while the merge-to-main automation kept working. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?Hacker News comment
Finds Linear's MCP server clean and well designed, which the commenter sees as an advantage over Jira; they have never needed its API.
Negative
Who else fucking hates Linear?Reddit post and the author's reply (r/Linear)
On the team's Linear, nobody can see who is waiting on or blocking whom, so work has turned into syncing with teammates five times a day.
Mixed
2 suggestions for agentic engReddit post (r/Linear)
A heavy Linear user routes agents through local markdown files to save the tokens Linear's MCP and API would spend, and asks for a local sync layer.
No opinion stated
Issues with Linear integrationReddit post (r/codex)
Codex attaches to a Linear issue from a comment but stops immediately, a failure that returned days after an earlier fix. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: The August 17 outageHacker News comment
Has mostly used Linear for planning and issue tracking across repositories, calls its GitLab integration excellent, and notes companies on GitHub add Linear too.
No opinion stated
MCP diff comment tools escape raw Markdown before syncing to GitHubGitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's MCP diff comment tools escape Markdown before syncing to GitHub, so review comments show literal backslashes in place of headings, code, and bold text. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Incident with Github.comHacker News comment
Their team uses Linear and calls its GitHub integration buttery, the main thing they would miss if they left GitHub.
No opinion stated
list_projects limit maxes at 50 while sibling list tools allow 250GitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's MCP server caps list_projects at 50 results while list_issues allows 250, so paging a project list takes five times the round trips; Linear closed it as not planned. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
MCP: expose comment delegation metadataGitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's MCP did not expose which user an agent acted for on a comment; Linear replied the next day that it was implemented and rolled out. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
No opinion stated
Anyone else getting new_ack_timeout when delegating from Linear to Codex Cloud?Reddit post (r/codex)
Delegation from Linear to Codex Cloud stopped working; Linear support confirmed sessions were sent, but Codex never acknowledged them and reauthorizing did not help. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: Stateless MCP has recaptured my interestHacker News comment
A developer's agents regularly hit composability problems with Linear's 32-tool MCP server and fall back to raw GraphQL after several tries.
No opinion stated
feature request: filter issues that were automatically moved from previous cycleGitHub issue on linear/linear
Wants a filter that lists the issues cycles rolled over automatically because they were not done, which Linear does not offer. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Transitioning to Spec-Driven Development via AWS Step FunctionsReddit post (r/ClaudeCode)
Built a sandboxed AWS pipeline that picks up Linear tickets assigned to agents and runs Claude Code on pre-hydrated workspaces with no live Linear access.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?Hacker News comment
Has an orchestrating model scope work into Linear tickets with scope, decisions, and acceptance criteria, then writes implementation-agent prompts from each ticket.
Mixed
The Board Must Not Lie: How My AI Agent Keeps Linear and Jira in SyncPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Has a Claude Code workflow move Linear tickets from spec to done, and learned to verify every write because Linear's API returned success for fields it did not understand.
Positive
Comment on: Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)Hacker News comment
Finds Linear's basic pull request review feature, which groups changed files by theme and sorts them by importance, already better than GitHub's review page.
Positive
Comment on: Cyrus is team multiplayer coding agents on your own machineHacker News comment
Assigns Linear issues to the Cyrus agent, iterates with it in the issue, and merges after checking the deployed branch. Keeping the task list and the agent work in one place speeds the commenter's team up.
Positive
How I use Linear to manage agents (and why we should all be building software factories)X article (long-form post)
On a single US$12 seat, a consultant's agents worked through about 400 Linear issues in a month from tickets with Goal, Why, and Outcomes sections. He swapped in his own MCP server so agents act under their own identity.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: How do you maintain context across your coding sessions?Hacker News comment
A developer has Claude record work in Linear projects and tasks and reads them back each week to recover context, finding milestones useful once AI does the paperwork.
Negative
Comment on: When AI Costs More Than the EngineerHacker News comment
The commenter's company is testing an agent that starts on every new Linear issue. Agents get stuck burning tokens, and the commenter expects the setup to be dropped when free credits run out.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?Hacker News comment
A developer assigns tasks in Linear to three custom agents running in a macOS VM, which open PRs for review and generally work well.
No opinion stated
"Copy git branch name" button moves ticket status to Blocked if status is Backlog or TODOGitHub issue
Reports that copying an issue's git branch name moved new Backlog or Todo issues to Blocked, with a screen recording of the mutation. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Comment on: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDsHacker News comment
Finds copying a Linear ticket into a coding agent easier and cleaner than having the agent fetch it through the Linear MCP server.
Mixed
Linear IssuesPersonal blog post, jazzychad.notes
An ex-Apple engineer ranks Linear C-, second only to Apple's internal Radar, and lists frequent network errors and issue IDs that change when an issue moves to another team.
No opinion stated
Visually connect sub-issues to their parent on issue boards (Web & Desktop)GitHub issue on linear/linear
On boards without parent grouping, sub-issues look like regular issues, and the author points to Jira shading the parent area as the model. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60BHacker News comment
Finds it easy to assign Linear issues to Cursor and calls Linear's newly native agent poor by comparison.
Positive
Your Attention Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Agents - Zack Proser, WorkOSConference talk, AI Engineer (YouTube)
A WorkOS developer gives Claude Code his Linear through MCP to deduplicate requests and plans to tag Linear tickets agent-ready for a looping agent to work through.
Negative
Comment on: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?Hacker News comment
Tried Linear many times, but work spread across many projects and repositories is not its focus, so the commenter built a custom GitHub dashboard instead.
Mixed
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Their team adopted Linear in 2021 when it was very fast; the commenter now finds it bloated, with new features aimed at medium and large businesses.
No opinion stated
Codex delegate creates session/linkback but no visible cloud task result after @CodexGitHub issue
Delegating a Linear issue to Codex created a session and linkback, but no visible Codex cloud task result or blocker came back. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Negative
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Does not see what Linear adds: an issue tracker is a low-frequency tool for a developer, and using it feels like any other tracker or Kanban board.
Positive
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Never found Linear especially fast, more laggy like most web apps, but calls it a real relief after Jira.
Positive
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
A developer manages Linear tickets and search through a terminal agent using the Linear MCP and calls it amazing to work with.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Calls Linear the best web app and bug tracker the commenter has used and says it is worth paying for.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
From heavy personal use of Linear and enterprise use of Jira, finds Linear far more performant than Jira and Microsoft Planner.
Negative
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Says Jira adapts to large organizations where each team runs a different process, while Linear covers a small subset suited to an average software team.
Negative
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Uses Linear at work and struggles with its UX; it does not feel fast because numbers update with no sign that data is still loading.
Negative
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
After working daily in Linear the commenter lost enthusiasm: search is slow, the UI is clunky, Pulse is noisy even at small scale, and things are hard to find.
Negative
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Their Linear client often gets stuck syncing and blocks all interaction, sometimes for ten minutes.
Mixed
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
Repeated edits in Linear sometimes revert, so the commenter writes one-line issues in Linear, where it is fast, and fills in the details on GitHub.
Negative
Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownHacker News comment
A previous employer switched from Linear to Jira because of the UX: cryptic icons, features that were hard to find, and content changing without explanation.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?Hacker News comment
Has Claude Code write specs into Linear tickets, decompose them into issues tagged with the model to use, and works each ticket with a coding agent before review.
No opinion stated
[Feature Request] (Reviews) Be able to select a default PR merge strategyGitHub issue
The Review panel's default squash and merge clashes with the author's team's release branch strategy, and there is no way to choose a merge commit per branch. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
No opinion stated
Comment on: [Feature Request] Expose sortOrder (manual backlog position) in MCP tools for read and writeGitHub issue comment
Uses agents to spec work for other agents to pick up, and says without MCP backlog ordering Linear cannot be part of that flow. It does not judge Linear overall.
Mixed
Claude Code + Linear MCP was creating messy tickets. Here's the guardrail I added.Reddit post (r/ClaudeCode)
Linear's MCP set up smoothly, but Claude Code created issues missing status, labels, project and assignee until they added their own validation tool.
Positive
Linear + ChatGPT + Codex workflow = goldenReddit post (r/codex)
Keeps the backlog in Linear and has ChatGPT check each issue against the code before Codex builds it, since tickets go stale; calls the workflow golden.
No opinion stated
Codex retains wrong worktree/thread binding for Linear-delegated tasks and applies fixes to the wrong local worktreeGitHub issue on openai/codex
Fixes Codex generates for Linear-delegated tasks try to apply to the wrong local worktree in a multi-worktree repository, on both Mac and Windows. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Using AI to write better code more slowlyHacker News comment
Works in Codex with the Linear MCP server connected, so the back-and-forth chat with the agent ends up written as the Linear issue.
Positive
Comment on: Jira Is Turing-CompleteHacker News comment
A developer runs projects mostly through an agent on Linear's MCP server, letting it create follow-up issues while implementing.
Counts toward
Positive
AI agents almost refunded 2 of my customers without permissionReddit post (r/SaaS)
A solo founder kept an agent that turns Sentry errors into Linear issues with reproduction steps and a suggested fix among the automations worth keeping.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: 22% Layoff at ClickUpHacker News comment
Says nobody at their company was upset to switch from ClickUp to Linear.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5Hacker News comment
Hands more and more tasks from Linear straight to Cursor's Composer model and copies fewer of them into Claude.
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5Hacker News comment
Uses Linear at work and does not see what makes it better for agent workflows than Jira or GitHub issues, calling its agent positioning buzzword timing.
No opinion stated
Feature request: Allow Linear MCP to switch between multiple projects seamlesslyGitHub issue
The Linear MCP flow feels built for one project at a time; agents moving between projects search repeatedly and risk creating or updating issues in the wrong place. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Comment on: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile appHacker News comment
Runs OpenAI's Symphony pattern against Linear, which makes the tracker the interface for agents, clones the repo per ticket, and lets the developer work several items in parallel.
Positive
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownIndependent technical teardown, performance.dev
A developer who has used Linear since its beta traces its speed to a database in the browser with optimistic writes. He finds it still ships about 21 MB of minified JavaScript, split into route chunks that a service worker precaches.
Counts toward
Mixed
Linear Agent Isn't What You Need. Your Agent Was Already in the TerminalPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Uninstalled Linear's MCP server as slow and unreliable, fought escaping in the GraphQL API, and finds Linear Agent of no use to terminal coding agents, and built a CLI instead.
No opinion stated
Linear Agent SDK cannot spawn cloud agentGitHub issue on openai/codex
Assigning a Linear issue to Codex or mentioning it fails with a no-environments error despite configured environments; other users report the same and Linear support points to OpenAI. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how all tools areHacker News comment
After four years on Linear, says skeptical colleagues on current and past teams said within two weeks they would never go back to Jira.
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloudHacker News comment
Their team uses Linear issues plus a human-written prompt as agent context; it works well for features and bug hunting and keeps tickets honest.
No opinion stated
[Feature Request] Expose sortOrder (manual backlog position) in MCP tools for read and writeGitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's MCP hides manual backlog order, so an agent cannot pick the top issue; the author later moved agents to the GraphQL API instead. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: My AI-Assisted WorkflowHacker News comment
Uses skills that turn a PRD into Linear projects and blocked-by issues in a Ready for Agent status, which a scheduled Claude Code orchestrator picks up, with a human-in-the-loop status.
Positive
Comment on: Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0Hacker News comment
After a local agent task tool kept breaking, a developer switched to Linear's MCP server for agent task tracking and found it sufficient.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
Codex's Linear integration is always working against master branchReddit post (r/codex)
Codex tasks started from Linear always target the master branch, even after the repository's default branch was changed. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)Hacker News comment
Dislikes that Linear, like GitHub, takes over Cmd+F for its own search box, which blocks the browser's find in page.
Positive
What are your favourite plugins/skills for Claude Code right now as of April 2026?Reddit post (r/ClaudeCode)
Working inside a client team that runs Linear, they find Linear's MCP works well for agent-first development across the team.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
[Feature request] Add a pause/resume SLA feature to ensure you can track SLA eliminating external dependenciesGitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's SLA clock cannot pause while an issue waits on a customer, so breaches appear without team fault and workarounds are fragile; Linear has no plan to add it. It does not judge Linear overall.
Positive
Comment on: Cursor 3Hacker News comment
A developer triggering Cursor agents for each review finding says Cursor's Linear and Slack integrations make that workflow handy.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
update_issue status parameter rejects state names, expects UUIDGitHub issue on linear/linear
The MCP server's update_issue tool documented status as a plain string, yet a state name such as Done failed with a UUID validation error; a community MCP package resolves names instead. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)
Ran agents through Linear issues and liked the results, yet is building a dedicated agent coordination layer so agent work is tracked outside Linear.
Mixed
Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"Reddit comment (r/startups)
Has Claude break specs into Linear tasks through the MCP and pull the next one to plan; the backlog stays visible but the model stumbles with the MCP.
Positive
Comment on: Dobase - Open-source, self-hosted workspace with issues, docs, and chatHacker News comment
Evaluated ClickUp to leave Jira, found the basics missing, and moved to Linear, which is solid in what it offers.
No opinion stated
Feature request: Add bulk issue creation tool for MCP (issueBatchCreate)GitHub issue on linear/linear
Creating 78 issues from an agent through Linear's MCP took one call per issue, which made the run slow and noisy. The author asks for a batch tool. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Linear to Claude to Linear AgentReddit comment (r/Linear)
Built a cron dispatcher that picks up Linear issues in a Ready for Claude status, sets them in progress and launches Claude Code in isolated worktrees.
Counts toward
Positive
I Tried to Run Symphony for Real on Rentello. It Broke in Exactly the Right Place.Personal blog post, DEV Community
Ran a Symphony-style orchestrator against a real Linear board, using execution-owner labels, blocked-by links, and one workpad comment per issue as the contract between coding agents.
Positive
Comment on: Linear to Claude to Linear AgentReddit comment (r/Linear)
Plans with Claude, has it write Linear tickets and assigns them to cloud agents; ticket quality and agent comments are excellent, making Linear the project's main context.
Mixed
Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadHacker News comment
Calls Linear the best of a poor field but warns that an AI-first direction could degrade it for people who just want an issue tracker.
Mixed
Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadHacker News comment
Linear is still the commenter's favourite tracker, but they want AI kept away from it and found the agent-first announcement off-putting.
Positive
An agent orchestrator built by the agents it managesReddit post (r/codex)
Built a Symphony orchestrator that moved 24 Linear tickets from Todo through agent implementation and review to merged PRs, hitting Linear free-plan rate limits along the way.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Are you using a Pivotal Tracker successor? Which one?Hacker News comment
Uses Linear for engineering work for its shortcuts and speed, but goes back to a GitHub Projects board for teams under five where a dedicated tool is overhead.
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIHacker News comment
Their company uses Linear; it looks sleeker than Jira, but the commenter still asks whether anyone can build a good bug tracker.
Positive
Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIHacker News comment
Just started using Linear and finds it AI-friendly and far less bloated than Jira, which the commenter once adopted to replace Bugzilla.
Positive
Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIHacker News comment
Wants Jira's four-click Slack menu cut down to the single emoji that creates a ticket in Linear's Slack integration.
Positive
Comment on: Searching for the Agentic IDEHacker News comment
Finds the closest thing to an agentic IDE is Linear or a tracker with a good API, managing agents the way teams manage engineers: assign them issues.
Positive
Loom vs Linear: A tale of two AI-citiesNewsletter post, James Pember on Substack
A product leader says Linear's API and CLI let his agents groom backlogs, clear stale issues and add tags in seconds, unlike Loom, which locks its data away.
No opinion stated
Claude Code Linear Plugin: blockedBy relations include completed/resolved issuesGitHub issue on linear/linear
The Claude Code Linear plugin returned removed blockers as active, so agents misjudged which issues were blocked; a Linear engineer said the root cause was fixed. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
No opinion stated
save_project MCP tool only supports a single teamGitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's MCP project tool accepts a single team although projects can span several teams, so agents cannot set multi-team projects. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
Feature request: configurable default tab for projectsGitHub issue on linear/linear
Projects always open on the Overview tab, an extra click for teams that work from the Issues tab; asks for a configurable default. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
MCP Server: update_issue tool returns -32602 'Tool not found' despite being listed in tools/listGitHub issue on linear/linear
Linear's hosted MCP server listed update_issue, yet every call returned Tool not found while read and comment tools worked with the same key; the issue is now closed as completed. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Marketing with AI Agents - Why I Left Linear for FPVideo, YouTube
A marketer who assigns Linear tickets to himself and his agent tries FP, a terminal-first tracker, because marketing project work differs from coding work.
Positive
Management theory from the 1970s applies surprisingly well to managing AI agents in 2026Reddit post (r/ExperiencedDevs)
A solo founder running seven services says the work is now managing agents, and they use Linear to coordinate agents across repositories.
Counts toward
Positive
Building a Linear-Driven Agent Loop with Claude CodePersonal blog post, damiangalarza.com
Damian Galarza's loop has Claude Code take the next Todo issue from Linear, build it, post its summary and a subagent review as comments, and move the issue to Done. He keeps Linear as the source of truth so he can follow every issue's lifecycle.
No opinion stated
[Proposal] Redesign MCP tools around user tasks, not API endpointsGitHub issue on linear/linear
Uses Linear daily through MCP from coding agents and finds its 45 tools crowd context and lead the model to pick the wrong one. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Positive
Claude Code + Linear (Coding Agent Workflow)Video, YouTube
A developer shows Claude Code connected to Linear through the MCP server, creating, reading and updating tickets and opening a pull request per ticket.
Positive
Comment on: AI is killing B2B SaaSHacker News comment
Ran vanilla Jira for a while, then switched the team to Linear and has been happy since.
Positive
How to use Cursor and Linear to be a product team soloPersonal blog post, FJAN IT
A solo developer turns specs into Linear issues through the Linear MCP and delegates them to Cursor agents, reviewing the resulting pull requests himself.
No opinion stated
Codex Cloud cannot load screenshot from Linear taskGitHub issue on openai/codex
Screenshots attached to a Linear issue assigned to Codex fail to load in the Codex Cloud task, so the agent works from an incomplete issue. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Comment on: Track Your Routine - Open-source app for task managementHacker News comment
Liked Linear at work enough to use it for personal task management too, and finds no open-source tracker as polished.
Positive
Comment on: Track Your Routine - Open-source app for task managementHacker News comment
Connects Claude Code to Linear through the MCP server so typing standup runs a standup over the commenter's own tasks, and uses Projects for long-running initiatives.
Mixed
Comment on: Agent orchestration for the timidHacker News comment
A developer tried Linear and Jira as agents' work queue and found a local tool, beads, better because it avoids MCP and remote API calls.
Positive
Comment on: No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teamsHacker News comment
Having just rolled out Linear, the commenter finds it a fast middle ground between Jira and GitHub issues that stops PMs from piling on custom fields and workflows.
Positive
Comment on: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phoneHacker News comment
Connects Linear to Cursor's web agent so issues can be assigned to it, and hands Linear issues to Claude Code through the Linear MCP server, happily, for hobby projects.
Positive
Comment on: Looking for Honest experiences about Linear AppReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
After replacing Jira with Linear, finds it refreshing because its opinions spare the team from configuring the tool, so they get on with the project.
Positive
Comment on: Karpathy on Programming: "I've never felt this much behind"Hacker News comment
Names Linear as one of the few products that make quality and reliability a selling point, and calls it a pleasure to use.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Looking for Honest experiences about Linear AppReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Switched from Jira to Linear and would never go back: fewer features, but the important ones are there and the UX and speed are far better.
Positive
Comment on: Scaling LLMs to Larger CodebasesHacker News comment
A developer has the agent create Linear issues to track each phase of large features across sessions, keeping the Linear MCP as the one loaded MCP.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?Hacker News comment
A developer uses Cursor rules so that pasting a Linear ticket description gets tedious CRUD work about 95 percent done in one pass.
Counts toward
Positive
Claude Code Workflow: My Complete Development SetupPersonal blog post, damiangalarza.com
A developer building Tracewell AI calls the Linear MCP server the backbone of his workflow. Claude scopes work into Linear issues, and a 14-step skill fetches an issue, names the branch the way Linear suggests, and opens a linked pull request.
Positive
Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosReddit comment (r/devops)
Says Linear works fine at the 5,000-person company they work for, against the idea that it suits only small teams.
Positive
Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosReddit comment (r/devops)
Has used Linear for task management on teams much larger than 20 people and liked it every time.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI. Are we right?Hacker News comment
Their workplace recently moved from Jira to Linear; full keyboard navigation wins praise, with a clash with the Vimium extension the only downside.
Positive
Comment on: Notion vs Jira and other PM toolsReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
After rolling tools out at small and large companies, recommends Linear plus Google Sheets and Docs: enough for a small team and its lead to manage delivery.
Mixed
Comment on: Claude SkillsHacker News comment
A developer finds Linear's MCP pulls every comment on an issue, flooding the agent's context when only the description and last comment are needed.
No opinion stated
How do I answer the question, "which people resources free up in mid-October?"Reddit post (r/Linear)
Wants to see who is overbooked or free in coming weeks, which other tools show in one click, but Linear's cycles give only a burndown line. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: "Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymoreHacker News comment
Their company switched to Linear only after Jira got very bad, and heavy Jira users with specific ways of working still have growing pains.
Positive
Comment on: What plugins or MCPs are you guys using right now that are actually useful?Reddit comment (r/cursor)
Counts Linear's MCP among the useful ones because the team relies on Linear for engineering management.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
Linear's import of its exported CSV file ignores too muchGitHub issue on linear/linear
Re-importing Linear's own CSV export ignores the Team column, asks for a team from a long list with no search, and drops archived issues. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Finds the issue tracker good but Projects full of hierarchy problems and limits, such as no way to convert a project to an initiative or split a project. Better than Jira but overrated.
Positive
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Loves Linear a few months after leaving Jira: Asks and Triage work well, and above all it is fast and stays out of the way.
Positive
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Linear Asks brings bugs and triage in from Slack, and the two-way sync works well. Weekly project updates show what is happening across the organization, and data can sync to a warehouse for reports.
Negative
Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Misses Jira's change history on a ticket, since Linear does not show who edited a description or when someone took an issue.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: What's a modern alternative to Confluence for small dev teams?Hacker News comment
Contrasts Notion, which tries to be an everything app and turns cluttered once dev work is added, with Linear, which the commenter likes as an opinionated planning product.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser CompanyHacker News comment
Switched to Linear for consulting side projects and finds it low friction, but doubts it will match Jira in enterprises that want heavy custom workflows and fields.
No opinion stated
Comment on: A staff engineer's journey with Claude CodeHacker News comment
A developer found Linear's MCP server truncated long issues for Claude Code, while calling the Linear API directly returned them whole. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
everywhere at onceReddit post (r/ProductManagement)
Managing many products at different stages across platforms and stakeholders, a PM finds the company's Linear poor for that portfolio view. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
[Bug/Feature Request] Status doesn't change when destination branch is modifiedGitHub issue on linear/linear
Changing a pull request's target branch to main left the Linear issue in its old status when it should have moved to In Review prod; Linear closed the report as completed. This report covers that behavior only.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Comment on: GPT-5 for DevelopersHacker News comment
A developer finds agents launched from Linear expensive and of little benefit over prompting a terminal agent through Linear's MCP server.
Mixed
Comment on: Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?Hacker News comment
Says Linear cycles roll unfinished work into an already full next cycle with no rebalancing or velocity projection, and Linear declined the commenter's request for it.
Mixed
Comment on: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit holeHacker News comment
Uses Linear and finds it faster than Jira but nowhere near the impossibly fast speed others describe.
No opinion stated
gitlab import is broken - estimates are not allowed to be greater than 64, but gitlab issue exports estimates in secondsGitHub issue on linear/linear
A GitLab import stopped at 113 of 273 issues because GitLab exports estimates in seconds and Linear rejects any estimate above 64; Linear closed the report as completed. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit holePersonal blog post, Bytemash
A web developer two months into Linear says issues open instantly and a status change reaches a second browser almost at once, which led the author to study its local-first sync engine.
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPAHacker News comment
Calls Linear a resource hog with very high memory use and poor browser behavior, a bloated web app the commenter's team complains about in chat.
No opinion stated
[Bug] GitHub issue import not workingGitHub issue on linear/linear
A developer trialing Linear as a Jira replacement could not import GitHub issues past a Not Found error, and retrying meant a trip through GitHub's settings with no way back. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Comment on: Remote MCP Support in Claude CodeHacker News comment
A developer had Claude Code read a Linear ticket through remote MCP and make the changes, imperfect but saving about fifteen minutes.
Counts toward
No opinion stated
API returns truncated issue descriptions using MCPGitHub issue on linear/linear
Through Linear's MCP server, issue descriptions of about 4,000 characters came back cut mid-sentence with no truncation flag, in both list_issues and get_issue. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Comment on: A practical guide to building agents [pdf]Hacker News comment
Built a hackathon agent that read acceptance tests from Linear, ran them with Stagehand, and reported results back to Linear; limits in the Linear SDK got in the way.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: What's the best tool you've used for sprint planning?Hacker News comment
Rates Linear the best sprint planning tool the commenter has used: simple, snappy, and balanced between opinionated and customizable.
No opinion stated
In Project View, it is hard to tell which projects belong to which priority levelGitHub issue on linear/linear
Finds it hard to tell high from low priority projects on the Projects page because group headers look like every other row; Linear called it a known contrast issue. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Mixed
Comment on: Everything’s a bug (or an issue)Hacker News comment
A developer required to use Linear finds its client-side state buggy, its triage defaults erratic and its forced workflow unpleasant, though better than Jira.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: How do you manage client retainers? Built a tool, curious if usefulHacker News comment
A consultant manages client retainers in Linear with clients invited as guests, relying on built-in project updates while billing happens elsewhere.
Positive
Comment on: Which MCP servers do you use with Cursor?Reddit comment (r/cursor)
Pulls Linear tasks into Cursor through the Linear MCP and combines GitHub MCP data with Linear to report team velocity.
Positive
Comment on: WebTUI - A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the WebHacker News comment
Names Linear as the one web app whose keyboard navigation comes close to a terminal UI, though still short of a TUI's fluidity.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Help me tell leadership why we shouldn't use Monday for product managementReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
At a previous role, leadership wanted updates in Asana; product and engineering convinced them Linear's own updates would be more current and real time.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Solo Founders: How Do You Stay Organized?Hacker News comment
A solo founder tracks feature requests in Linear and uses it to plan the product roadmap and record why each feature is being built.
Mixed
Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearReddit comment (r/ProductManagement)
Finds Linear's experience better but basic, suited to small teams of individual contributors, and could not find a way to version releases.
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: I built one of my favorite Linear features for GitHub IssuesHacker News comment
After enabling Linear's GitHub integration, Linear's similar-issue detection let the commenter's team close a surprisingly large share of bugs as duplicates during triage.
No opinion stated
Feature request: Auto assign an issue to a user when status changesGitHub issue on linear/linear
Developers must reassign issues to the tech lead by hand when moving them to In Review; asks for Trello-style status rules. It does not judge Linear overall.
Counts toward
Pages from Linear, used to check facts for every group.
Bills every unsuspended user in any role, monthly or yearly; Enterprise is yearly only.
Bills coding sessions and Loops from a prepaid workspace balance: model tokens at provider rates with no markup, US$0.25 per 20-minute sandbox block, and loop runs that typically cost US$0.07 to US$0.20.
Lets members with billing permission review AI spending by session and set workspace spend limits.
Documents delegating issues to installed agents by assignment or mention, team-scoped installs, workspace and team agent guidance, and that agents are not billable seats.
Documents Linear Agent in chat, comments, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, shared skills, Loops, and MCP server connections, working within the user's own permissions.
Documents Linear Agent writing code with Claude Code or Codex in a cloud environment and returning a draft pull request, with model choice and per-repository environments.
Suggests teams, projects, assignees, labels, and duplicates for issues in Triage on Business and Enterprise, taking 1 to 4 minutes per issue.
Lets Linear Agent answer questions from connected GitHub repositories on Business and Enterprise, scoped to each member's repository access unless an admin extends it.
Shows GitHub pull request diffs, checks, and comments inside Linear and syncs review actions both ways once code access is granted.
Documents linking pull requests and commits to issues, automating issue status from pull request events, and syncing GitHub Issues with Linear teams.
Documents the hosted MCP server at mcp.linear.app with OAuth, a read-only endpoint, and setup for Claude, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
Documents cycles as an optional team setting; when enabled, Linear creates upcoming cycles automatically and they are not tied to releases.
Documents Jira Sync for pilots and gradual moves, and lists Jira features Linear does not pursue: issue types, constraints, components, and required fields.
Documents importers for Jira, GitHub Issues, Asana, and Shortcut, plus a CLI importer, run by workspace admins.
Documents issue analytics on Business and Enterprise; cross-team Dashboards are on Enterprise.
States SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA with a BAA on Enterprise, and US or EU data regions chosen at workspace creation.
Source index
Every source GILD read, with the original address and the context used to count it. Open a finding to filter the full cards above. On smaller screens the index lists each source once by name, cohort and date; its full record above carries the address, context and findings.
| Source | Original URL | Author and context | Who | Published | Review date | Applies | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My entire team wept with joy when I migrated them off JIRAID s3-14 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Sean, security practitioner at Arxosself-described: His team, which he moved from Jira to Linear | Very small team | Published Oct 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear's proven really useful as a store of state for agentsID s3-15 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Nate Kohari, building Theseus; previously staff engineer at Stripe and CTO at Kevelself-described: His current team, where agents file Linear issues for other agents to pick up | Very small team | Published Oct 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Can an AI Agent Refund $1,200 Without Permission?ID s3-34 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Aaron Tainter, WorkOS engineerself-described: WorkOS authorization workflow using Linear with Snowflake, Stripe, and Gmail | Professional team | Published Oct 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| I think I have found my new coding workflow, but I'm still the bottleneckID s3-13 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Anurag Bhagsain, building SlidesAI.ioself-described: SlidesAI.io, built with a lead agent that plans Linear milestones and tickets and assigns them to Claude and Codex agents on a remote machine | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Claude found a better way to communicate with Codex using LinearID s3-12 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Pratik Jain, building Reva Workspace; previously at AWSself-described: His product build, with Claude and Codex coordinating through Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How are you using Linear in your agentic engineering workflows?ID dc-273 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Attacus, Reddit commenterself-described: Builder using Linear for agentic workflows | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Why the Ecosystem Matters: AWS IntroID s3-33 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Andrew Lau, Jellyfish co-founder and CEO, and Billy Robins, Head of PartnershipsJellyfish engineering leadership describing an ecosystem with Linear and Jira integrations | Technical leadership | Published Oct 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | Not counted. It is a session at Jellyfish's partner event, co-presented by Jellyfish's head of partnerships. |
| Comment on: Docker AgentID dc-120 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | tomashubelbauer, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company that uses Jira | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?ID dc-119 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Torsta, Reddit commenterself-described: Company whose engineering team stayed on Jira | Very small team | Published Oct 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?ID dc-115 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | kops212, Reddit commenterself-described: Company where product leadership owns initiatives in Linear | Very small team | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?ID dc-116 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | j1mtones, Reddit commenterself-described: Smaller organization that moved from Notion to Linear a year earlier | Very small team | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?ID dc-117 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | AmericanSpirit4, Reddit commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone using Linear for product work?ID dc-118 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | HustlinInTheHall, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear exclusively after leaving Jira | Very small team | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| MCP: return explicit null delegate fields for unassigned issuesID dc-272 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | orchidautomation, GitHub issue authorself-described: Agent integration that prepares native Linear delegation | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMsID dc-271 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | superjose, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team using Linear, Metabase and Datadog | Very small team | Published Sep 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Feature Request] Show initiatives, projects and issues together in one custom viewID dc-114 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | sealab2066, GitHub issue authorself-described: GitHub issue on linear/linear; owns initiatives, projects, and issues | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear Codex integration not working.ID dc-270 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | MaxAndreassen, GitHub issue authorself-described: Fractional product engineer | Very small team | Published Sep 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upID dc-60 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | heeton, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team that has used Linear for years | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Show HN: Self Improving AgentOrchestrator SkillID dc-269 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jakelevirne, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upID dc-58 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | reticulates, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep upID dc-59 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | theYipster, Hacker News commenterself-described: Founder of SkyThread and IDCA | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Replacing Linear MCP with linear-cliID ir-33 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | thebiglog.com/ | SHxKM, author of The Big Log, backend developerself-described: Personal Linear workspace used with Claude | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from othersID dc-268 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | garethsprice, co-founder, Hacker News commenterself-described: Co-founder running local-inference coding agents | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: A year of Claude Code alongside Hermes and Codex: the problem isn't the coding, it's the 12 tasks every session leaves behindID dc-267 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | GinjaNinja71, Reddit commenterself-described: Architect working mostly in .NET | Very small team | Published Sep 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Has AI destroyed product craft at your company too?ID dc-113 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Sketaverse, Solo founder, formerly led an 80-person product orgself-described: Solo founder running about 40 concurrent agents | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Automations Not Setting Issue Status On PR MergeID dc-112 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | oliverkidd, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team with PR-merge status automations per branch | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?ID dc-57 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | muzani, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Who else fucking hates Linear?ID dc-266 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Jon_wong_2715, Reddit commenterself-described: Team that moved from Jira to Shortcut to Linear | Very small team | Published Aug 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Who else fucking hates Linear?ID dc-263 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Unobtainiumrock, Reddit posterself-described: Personal Linear use | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Using Linear for waterfall projects with fixed start and go-live dates: how are you structuring it?ID dc-264 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | No-Calligrapher-2421, Reddit posterself-described: Team running waterfall deployment projects | Very small team | Published Aug 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Who else fucking hates Linear?ID dc-265 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | rednix, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear | Very small team | Published Aug 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| 2 suggestions for agentic engID dc-262 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Sketaverse, Reddit poster, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Issues with Linear integrationID dc-261 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | elias-vinterholm-42, Reddit poster, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| The best roadmapping tool for LinearID dc-260 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Relative-Calendar162, Reddit poster leading a Linear rollout to about 90 peopleself-described: Organization of about 90 onboarding Linear, four roadmap-owning groups | Organization-wide | Published Aug 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: The August 17 outageID dc-56 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mort96, Hacker News commenterself-described: Has worked with several companies | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: AI usage patterns in software teamsID dc-259 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | 0xbadcafebee, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team adopting AI code pipelines with guardrails | Very small team | Published Aug 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Issues and Project Templates access when creating with MCPID dc-257 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | olivierbelhumeur-vlabs, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team creating issues mostly through coding agents and Claude Desktop | Very small team | Published Aug 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| As a small team, I just think small teams don't need PM SaaS tools anymoreID dc-258 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | SnooDogs5688, Reddit poster and former startup founderself-described: Startup of about 10 on Linear; now a two-person team on GitHub issues | Very small team | Published Aug 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| MCP diff comment tools escape raw Markdown before syncing to GitHubID s3-28 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Trollgeir, GitHub issue authorself-described: Agent posting code review comments through Linear's MCP diff tools | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Incident with Github.comID dc-55 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | sebmellen, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team using Linear with GitHub | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| We stopped paying for LinearID ir-26 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | xiaofeidu.com/ | Xiaofei Du, oversaw development for a team of about 10self-described: Ten-person team with one PM and one designer; later a two-person project | Very small team | Published Aug 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| list_projects limit maxes at 50 while sibling list tools allow 250ID s3-27 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | PedroHenriqueFernandes, GitHub issue authorself-described: Agent sweeping a workspace with a few hundred projects through Linear's MCP server | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: 10 years in corporate, moving to a startup, need a new PM toolID dc-256 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | localsonlynokooks, Reddit commenterself-described: PM at an agency | Very small team | Published Aug 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| MCP: expose comment delegation metadataID dc-255 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Trollgeir, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| [Feature Request] Expose Loops (recurring agent jobs) via GraphQL API & MCPID dc-254 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | jamesboncek-sqldbm, GitHub issue authorself-described: Workspace managed as infrastructure-as-code over the GraphQL API | Very small team | Published Aug 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: When something fails, how do you figure out what engineering work is actually affected?ID dc-253 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | davy_jones_locket, Reddit commenter, self-described | Very small team | Published Aug 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Anyone else getting new_ack_timeout when delegating from Linear to Codex Cloud?ID dc-252 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | StructureUnique8391, Reddit poster, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Stateless MCP has recaptured my interestID dc-251 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rutierut, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: What did your team outgrow in Linear?ID dc-250 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | EscalateToHuman, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear | Very small team | Published Aug 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Question about projects and linking issuesID dc-249 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | xidi11, Reddit posterself-described: Enterprise product team | Very small team | Published Jul 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| feature request: filter issues that were automatically moved from previous cycleID dc-247 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | pedrofreidinger-azos, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Custom fields in Linear, to integrate into WorkatoID dc-248 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | urielpr, Reddit posterself-described: Organization using Enterprise Plan | Organization-wide | Published Jul 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Transitioning to Spec-Driven Development via AWS Step FunctionsID dc-246 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Specific-Doughnut413, Reddit posterself-described: Software engineer working with sensitive health data and ETL pipelines | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?ID dc-54 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | enraged_camel, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| The Board Must Not Lie: How My AI Agent Keeps Linear and Jira in SyncID ir-23 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Mike (nesquikm), author of dev-process-toolkitself-described: Claude Code plugin that moves Linear or Jira tickets as work progresses | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)ID dc-111 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rglynn, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How do you delegate work?ID dc-245 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | blubrry-pie, Reddit posterself-described: Early-stage startup building an enterprise app handling sensitive PII | Technical leadership | Published Jul 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cyrus is team multiplayer coding agents on your own machineID dc-110 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | wateralien, Hacker News commenter (not affiliated with Cyrus)self-described: Team using the self-hosted Cyrus agent with Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How do you organize PRDs for agentic development?ID dc-244 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Jcrossfit, Reddit commenterself-described: Organization using Claude Code for development | Very small team | Published Jul 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How I use Linear to manage agents (and why we should all be building software factories)ID s3-11 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Fred Jonsson, AI and ML consultantself-described: Sole Linear user on a US$12 seat; agents work tickets in batches of 3 to 5 parallel workstreams | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: How do you maintain context across your coding sessions?ID dc-243 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | marssaxman, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo developer working with Claude | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How Coinbase Rebuilt Product Development Around AI Agents | Arize Observe 2026ID tc-01 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Chintan Turakhia, Chief Builder and Head of Coinbase Walletself-described: Coinbase engineering, moving to agent-first development | Technical leadership | Published Jul 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | Not counted. Linear features Coinbase and Turakhia in a customer story on its own site. |
| Comment on: How do you track when a feature that spans multiple tickets is actually ready to test?ID dc-242 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Aromatic-Fee2651, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear | Very small team | Published Jul 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear is always a lagging indicatorID ir-32 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | remark.ing/ | Rob Koch, remark.ing authorself-described: Engineer in an organization where leadership uses Linear for visibility; submitted to Hacker News | Very small team | Published Jul 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: When AI Costs More Than the EngineerID dc-109 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | DanielHB, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company testing Linear agents that start on every new issue, funded by free AI credits | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How to build a product team OS with Emma BurrowsID s3-32 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Emma Burrows, former Stripe UK CTO and CEO of RezonantProduct-team operating system drawing on Linear and other work sources | Technical leadership | Published Jul 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?ID dc-241 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Bogdanp, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo developer with a custom agent harness | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| "Copy git branch name" button moves ticket status to Blocked if status is Backlog or TODOID dc-108 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | jalexakos, GitHub issue authorself-described: GitHub issue on linear/linear, with a screen recording | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Which GitHub features are needed in a code forge before you can migrate?ID dc-240 | Developer Communities | lobste.rs/ | david_chisnall, Lobsters commenterself-described: Team on GitHub issues and Projects with public and private repositories | Very small team | Published Jul 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settingsID dc-238 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jmuguy, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company Linear workspace; Cursor user | Very small team | Published Jun 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How do you keep external clients updated without giving them workspace access?ID dc-239 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Zealousideal-Can8362, Reddit poster, self-described | Very small team | Published Jun 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDsID dc-53 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | epistasis, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear IssuesID s3-10 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | notes.jazzychad.net/ | jazzychad, ex-Apple engineer building the NeoCam appself-described: Uses Linear daily on web, iPhone, and iPad while developing NeoCam | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Visually connect sub-issues to their parent on issue boards (Web & Desktop)ID dc-237 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | shurkanTwo, GitHub issue authorself-described: Engineer at Entendix GmbH | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60BID dc-236 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rcleveng, Hacker News commenterself-described: Developer assigning Linear issues to Cursor | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| solving communication between teammates' agentsID dc-235 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Perfect_Tangerine432, Reddit posterself-described: Team using shared Linear | Very small team | Published Jun 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business?ID s3-31 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Garrett Galow, WorkOS engineerself-described: WorkOS internal workspace querying Linear, Snowflake, and Notion | Professional team | Published Jun 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Your Attention Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Agents - Zack Proser, WorkOSID tc-05 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Zack Proser, WorkOSself-described: Personal agent workflow at WorkOS, Claude Code with Slack and Linear via MCP | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| An engineer you manage from a group chatID ir-27 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | niptao.com/ | Shashank Singla, Niptaoself-described: Niptao, four-person group; Claude Code loop working Linear tickets through MCP | Very small team | Published Jun 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?ID dc-107 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | marcinignac, Hacker News commenter, runs a company with client projectsself-described: Company with about 20 internal and client repositories | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-52 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | port11, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team that adopted Linear in 2021 | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Codex delegate creates session/linkback but no visible cloud task result after @CodexID dc-104 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | omarpinarecords, GitHub issue authorself-described: Workspace with the Codex integration | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-105 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | nilirl, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-106 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Keyframe, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-234 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | victor9000, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-44 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jwr, Hacker News commenterself-described: Paying Linear customer | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-45 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | andersonklando, Heavy Linear user for a personal project and Jira enterprise userself-described: Personal project; Jira at work | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-46 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | epolanski, Hacker News commenterself-described: Has worked in Trello, Azure DevOps, Linear, and Jira | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-47 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | HoyaSaxa, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Linear at work | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-48 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ricardobeat, Hacker News commenterself-described: Works daily in Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-49 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | herpdyderp, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-50 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | SenHeng, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Linear for work and personal projects | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID dc-51 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ryukoposting, Hacker News commenterself-described: Previous employer | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?ID dc-43 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | browningstreet, Solopreneurself-described: Many independent projects | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Feature Request] (Reviews) Be able to select a default PR merge strategyID dc-103 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | rubenbullit, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team with release branches merging from Linear Reviews | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?ID dc-233 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | 0xbadcafebee, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Linear at work with OpenCode and MCP servers | Very small team | Published Jun 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
Comment on: [Feature Request] Expose sortOrder (manual backlog position) in MCP tools for read and writeID dc-230 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | jimmyp, GitHub commenterself-described: Developer using agents to spec work | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cloud Agents are impressive, but what tasks are you actually trusting them with?ID dc-231 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | NotARedditUser3, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using cloud agents for PR review | Very small team | Published Jun 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Claude Code + Linear MCP was creating messy tickets. Here's the guardrail I added.ID dc-232 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Straight_Stomach812, Reddit poster, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear + ChatGPT + Codex workflow = goldenID dc-229 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Specialist-Menu-5688, Reddit posterself-described: Individual developer managing an application over 80k LOC | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Codex retains wrong worktree/thread binding for Linear-delegated tasks and applies fixes to the wrong local worktreeID dc-228 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | pezezzle, GitHub issue authorself-described: One person developer studio in Switzerland | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Using AI to write better code more slowlyID dc-102 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | HyperL0gi, Hacker News commenterself-described: Codex with the Linear MCP server | Individual practitioner | Published May 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Jira Is Turing-CompleteID dc-226 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | pimeys, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published May 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| AI agents almost refunded 2 of my customers without permissionID dc-227 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Interesting-Sock3940, Reddit posterself-described: Solo SaaS founder | Individual practitioner | Published May 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: 22% Layoff at ClickUpID dc-42 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | anematode, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company that switched from ClickUp | Individual practitioner | Published May 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5ID dc-101 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rcleveng, Hacker News commenterself-described: Hands Linear tasks to Cursor | Individual practitioner | Published May 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5ID dc-41 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | khazhoux, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Linear at work | Individual practitioner | Published May 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Feature request: Allow Linear MCP to switch between multiple projects seamlesslyID dc-100 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | ProjectProgramAMark, GitHub issue authorself-described: Works across client, internal, and side projects in Linear | Individual practitioner | Published May 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile appID dc-99 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | stavros, Hacker News commenter, Stavros Korokithakisself-described: Individual; Symphony implemented for Linear and GitHub | Individual practitioner | Published May 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: +50k spent in the past 6 months - I can tackle your questionsID dc-225 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Hassan_W, Reddit commenter, self-described | Very small team | Published May 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownID s3-09 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | performance.dev/ | Dennis Brotzky, web developerself-described: Linear user since its beta, writing an outside teardown of the app; he has never worked at Linear | Individual practitioner | Published May 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear Agent Isn't What You Need. Your Agent Was Already in the TerminalID ir-19 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Fernando Rodriguez, developerself-described: Solo work with terminal coding agents | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear Agent SDK cannot spawn cloud agentID dc-224 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | oleghalin, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boardsID dc-126 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | dankons, Hacker News commenterself-described: Small team that moved from Jira about two years earlier | Very small team | Published Apr 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how all tools areID dc-40 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ngrilly, Hacker News commenterself-described: Four years of Linear across teams | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60BID dc-125 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | fy20, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company of about 25 engineers running Cursor cloud agents on its Linear tickets | Professional team | Published Apr 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloudID dc-98 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ubercore, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team using Linear with coding agents | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
[Feature Request] Expose sortOrder (manual backlog position) in MCP tools for read and writeID dc-223 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | perelin, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| I stopped asking my engineers for status updates. I just read their agent traces now.ID dc-222 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | davidbun, Reddit poster leading engineering after their head of engineering leftself-described: Company with senior engineers across time zones, all using Claude Code; moved from Jira to Linear | Technical leadership | Published Apr 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: My AI-Assisted WorkflowID dc-39 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Bossie, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal workflow with Claude Code | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0ID dc-221 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | dbbk, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Codex's Linear integration is always working against master branchID dc-220 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | IllustratorHaunting1, Reddit poster, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)ID dc-97 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | glerk, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: I still prefer MCP over skillsID dc-218 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | theshrike79, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company where legal reviews MCP connections | Very small team | Published Apr 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| What are your favourite plugins/skills for Claude Code right now as of April 2026?ID dc-219 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | bobo-the-merciful, Reddit posterself-described: Client team using Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Feature request] Add a pause/resume SLA feature to ensure you can track SLA eliminating external dependenciesID dc-217 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | ppardhi, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: With Linear becoming more prevalent in the product world, what becomes the new purpose for product managers?ID dc-96 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | V_Ster, Reddit commenterself-described: Company that had just moved to Linear, with GitLab | Very small team | Published Apr 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: With Linear becoming more prevalent in the product world, what becomes the new purpose for product managers?ID dc-95 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Thunder_raining, Reddit commenterself-described: Team that moved plans into the repository for agents | Very small team | Published Apr 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cursor 3ID dc-216 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | athoscouto, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| update_issue status parameter rejects state names, expects UUIDID s3-26 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | ahmed-aisyst, GitHub issue authorself-described: Agent updating issue status through Linear's MCP server | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Are you team MCP or team CLI?ID dc-215 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | trcarney, Hacker News commenterself-described: Workplace with its own defined Linear workflow | Very small team | Published Mar 31, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Atlassian is killing Opsgenie and the JSM migration path nearly broke my team's on-call process.ID dc-214 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Much-Guidance-8560, Reddit commenter managing several teamsself-described: Teams moved from Jira and Jira Service Management to Linear and Linear Asks in Q1 2026 | Technical leadership | Published Mar 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: sidelined at a 50-person startup for trying to fix the chaos. Is it over?ID dc-209 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Otherwise-Profit5054, Reddit commenterself-described: 50-person startup where they mandated a ticket for every pull request | Technical leadership | Published Mar 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"ID dc-210 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | CowChicken23, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Claude and Linear MCP | Very small team | Published Mar 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"ID dc-211 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | CowChicken23, Reddit commenter, self-described | Very small team | Published Mar 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"ID dc-212 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Hephaestite, Reddit commenterself-described: Individual developer using an LLM and Linear workflow | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"ID dc-213 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | komokasi, Reddit commenterself-described: Team with an engineer using Linear skills | Very small team | Published Mar 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"ID dc-207 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | SteveZedFounder, Reddit poster and startup founderself-described: Early-stage startup using Claude and Codex with a coordinator repository | Very small team | Published Mar 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear just announced "Issue Tracking is Dead." Their Moat is dry. "i will not promote"ID dc-208 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | _marcx, Reddit commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Dobase - Open-source, self-hosted workspace with issues, docs, and chatID dc-38 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | pas, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team that evaluated ClickUp in 2023 | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Looking for 5-10 Leaders as Design PartnersID dc-204 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Aromatic-Fee2651, Reddit commenter, self-described | Very small team | Published Mar 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Feature request: Add bulk issue creation tool for MCP (issueBatchCreate)ID dc-205 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | emirtuncer, GitHub issue authorself-described: Developer syncing codebase issues to Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear to Claude to Linear AgentID dc-206 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | keyom, Reddit commenterself-described: Developer using cron based Linear dispatch | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| I Tried to Run Symphony for Real on Rentello. It Broke in Exactly the Right Place.ID ir-17 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Alessio Masucci, developerself-described: Rentello project with Codex and Claude orchestrators on a Linear board | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Linear to Claude to Linear AgentID dc-203 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | hraun, Reddit commenterself-described: Developer using Claude and Linear for project planning | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadID dc-37 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | sevenseacat, Hacker News commenterself-described: Current Linear user | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadID dc-124 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | obiefernandez, Hacker News commenterself-described: ZAR product engineering, which replaced Linear with a homegrown experiment-tracking system | Professional team | Published Mar 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Issue Tracking Is DeadID dc-36 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | steve_adams_86, Hacker News commenterself-described: Software developer at Hakai Institute | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| An agent orchestrator built by the agents it managesID dc-202 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Parabola2112, Reddit posterself-described: Rust developer building an OpenAI Symphony implementation | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How we built a Linear coding agent: the hard partsID s3-20 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | daily.dev/ | Ido Shamun, daily.devdaily.dev engineering, which logs bugs, feedback, and feature work in Linear and built Huginn, an in-house agent on Linear's Agent API | Professional team | Published Mar 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Are you using a Pivotal Tracker successor? Which one?ID dc-94 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | izajahmad, Hacker News commenterself-described: Engineering projects; small projects on GitHub Projects | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| No way to distinguish @mention-triggered from assignment-triggered AgentSessionEvent webhooksID dc-201 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | stepandel, GitHub issue authorself-described: Builds an agent app on Linear's agent session webhooks | Very small team | Published Mar 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?ID dc-200 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | clintonb, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company running Coder.com and Linear | Very small team | Published Mar 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIID dc-34 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | deathanatos, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company uses Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIID dc-35 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | tech_tuna, Hacker News commenterself-described: Long-time Jira user | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIID dc-93 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | PoachedEggs, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Jira and Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Anyone else having trouble with the UI?ID dc-199 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | roastedtuna, Reddit posterself-described: Team that switched from ClickUp to Linear | Very small team | Published Mar 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Searching for the Agentic IDEID dc-92 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | pjm331, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Loom vs Linear: A tale of two AI-citiesID ir-31 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | jamespember.substack.com/ | James Pember, Chief Product Officer at Komo Technologiesself-described: Personal use with OpenClaw agents and cheap models | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone successfully using Automations for Slack-to-PR workflows yet?ID dc-198 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | anObscurity, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear and Cursor agents | Very small team | Published Mar 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cloud agents + AI code review have completely changed how our team ships bug fixes (Slack → Linear → Cursor → GitHub → merged in <1 hour)ID dc-197 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | mmaskani, Reddit commenterself-described: Startup CTO | Very small team | Published Mar 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Claude Code Linear Plugin: blockedBy relations include completed/resolved issuesID dc-196 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | zebdro, GitHub issue authorself-described: Engineer at Northbooks | Individual practitioner | Published Mar 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Designing human-agent engineering teamsID dc-195 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | nihal_was_here, Reddit poster, self-described | Very small team | Published Mar 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Our team finally let go of the last few tickets on Jira and completely moved to LinearID s3-08 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Akshay Chugh, product lead at Coinbase Indiaself-described: Coinbase India product team, after finishing its move from Jira | Professional team | Published Mar 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Auto-archiving of completed issues not workingID s3-19 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Flagrare, GitHub issue authorself-described: Free-plan workspace with auto-archive set to one month | Very small team | Published Mar 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| save_project MCP tool only supports a single teamID dc-194 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | juliettefournier-econ, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Feature request: configurable default tab for projectsID dc-193 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | tscaramel, GitHub issue author, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Our migration to Linear was simple. Delete and start fresh.ID s3-07 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Chintan Turakhia, Chief Builder and Head of Coinbase WalletCoinbase, in his own post on X about how the team moved to Linear | Technical leadership | Published Feb 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClawID dc-192 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | maebert, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team running a shared OpenClaw agent in group chat | Very small team | Published Feb 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| MCP Server: update_issue tool returns -32602 'Tool not found' despite being listed in tools/listID s3-18 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | mkbctrl, GitHub issue authorself-described: Claude Code calling Linear's hosted MCP server with an API key | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Marketing with AI Agents - Why I Left Linear for FPID tc-04 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Tom Granot, SyntaxGTM YouTube channelself-described: Marketing campaigns run with Claude Code; uses the Linear CLI | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Management theory from the 1970s applies surprisingly well to managing AI agents in 2026ID dc-191 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | rllngstn, Reddit posterself-described: Solo startup founder | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How we reached bug zero using LinearID ir-14 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.sourcebot.dev/ | Michael Sukkarieh, Sourcebotself-described: Sourcebot, open source startup after YC | Very small team | Published Feb 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone automating the gap between Linear tickets and actual implementation?ID dc-189 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | lord_braleigh, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear Agents and Cursor Cloud Agents | Very small team | Published Feb 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Anyone automating the gap between Linear tickets and actual implementation?ID dc-190 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Eyoba_19, Reddit posterself-described: Team with a backlog of well-scoped tickets left idle | Very small team | Published Feb 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Building a Linear-Driven Agent Loop with Claude CodeID s3-21 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.damiangalarza.com/ | Damian Galarza, developer building Tracewell AIself-described: A bash loop that runs Claude Code against his Linear project through the Linear MCP, one issue per session | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Feature request] Pull Request Reviews for (self-hosted) GitLabID s3-17 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | heyshowshana, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team on a self-hosted GitLab instance | Very small team | Published Feb 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Proposal] Redesign MCP tools around user tasks, not API endpointsID dc-188 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | itsuki-terada, GitHub issue authorself-described: Developer using Linear with AI coding agents | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Claude Code + Linear (Coding Agent Workflow)ID tc-03 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Owain Lewis, YouTube creatorself-described: Personal Linear workspace with Claude Code via MCP | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: AI is killing B2B SaaSID dc-33 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | 9dev, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team that moved off Jira | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| So We Built Our Own Agentic Developer…and then the CEO shipped a featureID ir-29 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | builders.fullscript.com/ | Nick Crum, Fullscript Engineeringself-described: Fullscript engineering, Linear for issues and self-hosted GitLab for code, with an in-house agent called Nitro | Professional team | Published Feb 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Feature Request] - Filter on project membersID dc-187 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | dui-sellpy, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team using projects and current-cycle views for standups | Very small team | Published Feb 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| How to use Cursor and Linear to be a product team soloID ir-30 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.fjan.nl/ | Funs Janssen, Software Consultantself-described: Solo builder expanding his SaaS Trusthero | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Codex Cloud cannot load screenshot from Linear taskID dc-186 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | benglewis, GitHub issue authorself-described: Codex Business user on macOS | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Track Your Routine - Open-source app for task managementID dc-90 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | GZGavinZhao, Hacker News commenterself-described: First used Linear at work, now also for personal tasks | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Track Your Routine - Open-source app for task managementID dc-91 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | _bramses, Hacker News commenterself-described: Individual; Claude Code connected to Linear through MCP | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| [Feature Request] - Multiple JIRA syncs in 1 workspace?ID dc-184 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | gcb2018, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team working between two third parties that each run Jira | Very small team | Published Jan 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| My Claude Code'd App just hit 1750 users, here's how I did it:ID dc-185 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Additional-Mark8967, Reddit posterself-described: AI SEO content generator with 1750 users | Very small team | Published Jan 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Agent orchestration for the timidID dc-183 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | myleshenderson, Hacker News commenterself-described: Solo developer with a light agent orchestrator | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: For those using Linear, what are you guys using for product prioritization/planning?ID dc-182 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Less-Sentence-1723, Reddit commenterself-described: Team switched from Atlassian to Linear | Very small team | Published Jan 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Using AI to capture ideas from customer callsID dc-181 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | ImaginationInFocus, Reddit posterself-described: Team building an AI agent for customer calls | Very small team | Published Jan 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teamsID dc-32 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | cmrdporcupine, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team that just rolled out Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| I forced our team to stop creating tickets (on Linear in our case)ID s3-06 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Varunram Ganesh, founder of Trylapis (YC F25)self-described: Trylapis, a YC startup team that stopped filing Linear tickets and coordinates on Slack | Very small team | Published Jan 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus farID dc-122 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | megalomanu, Hacker News commenterself-described: Small team that wired Claude Code into its pull request flow through a shared CLAUDE.md | Very small team | Published Jan 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phoneID dc-31 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | harlanlewis, Hacker News commenterself-described: Hobby projects | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Insights are useless unless you upgrade to Enterprise?ID dc-180 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Capital-Barnacle2255, Reddit posterself-described: Team on the Linear Business plan | Very small team | Published Jan 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Hacker News comment (parent story removed)ID dc-179 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | lijok, Hacker News commenterself-described: Engineering team learning to orchestrate agents on Bedrock | Very small team | Published Dec 31, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Looking for Honest experiences about Linear AppID dc-178 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | ii-_-, Reddit commenterself-described: Team using Linear and Notion | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 30, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Karpathy on Programming: "I've never felt this much behind"ID dc-89 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | packetlost, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company with an ops person building internal dashboards | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 30, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Looking for Honest experiences about Linear AppID dc-177 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | maltelandwehr, Reddit commenterself-described: CPO and CMO at Peec AI | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 28, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Productboard is a lot of work - what would you keep?ID dc-176 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | jecs321, Reddit commenterself-described: Engineering team using Linear | Very small team | Published Dec 26, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Scaling LLMs to Larger CodebasesID dc-175 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mstank, Hacker News commenterself-described: Marketing technologist | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?ID dc-174 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jjice, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Dec 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Embedding Agents in Linear with Dana LawsonID s3-30 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Dana Lawson, CTO at NetlifyNetlify CTO presenting an agent embedded in Linear at Lisbon AI | Technical leadership | Published Dec 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Time Tracking in LinearID dc-173 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | UnableGreen3328, Reddit posterself-described: Team doing nonprofit and for-profit work | Very small team | Published Nov 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Claude Code Workflow: My Complete Development SetupID s3-05 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.damiangalarza.com/ | Damian Galarza, developer building Tracewell AIself-described: Works mostly alone on Tracewell AI, with Linear, Sentry, and Claude Code connected over MCP | Individual practitioner | Published Nov 25, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosID dc-172 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | catchthebreeze, Reddit commenterself-described: Works at a 5,000-person company that uses Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Nov 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Forgot to stop sprint in Jira, now our reports are completely messed upID dc-169 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Jumpy-Evidence-5766, Reddit poster managing boards across five teamsself-described: Company that moved from Linear to Jira; author runs five team boards | Professional team | Published Nov 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosID dc-170 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | cosmic-creative, Reddit commenter, self-described | Very small team | Published Nov 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: our startup grew too fast and now our processes are chaosID dc-171 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | cj6464, Reddit commenterself-described: Has used Linear on teams of more than 20 people | Individual practitioner | Published Nov 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: What if you don't need MCP at all?ID dc-168 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | clintonb, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team sharing MCP config in the repository | Very small team | Published Nov 16, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Still Using Linear? Curious - Has Linear Fixed These 3 Things Yet? (Or Are We Still Patching Them With Workarounds?)ID dc-167 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Mecheter, Reddit posterself-described: Dev agency managing client work | Very small team | Published Nov 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI. Are we right?ID dc-30 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Sander_Marechal, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company that recently moved from Jira | Individual practitioner | Published Nov 5, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| How to Create Visual Reports in Linear/from Linear?ID dc-166 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | kleri3, Reddit posterself-described: Company on Linear Business plan | Very small team | Published Nov 4, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| The Linear Team Made a Good MCPID s3-04 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | blog.fiberplane.com/ | Brett Beutell and Nele Uhlemann, Fiberplaneself-described: Fiberplane's analysis of Linear's MCP server, measured in Claude Code and the MCP Inspector | Professional team | Published Nov 4, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Looking for a sprint planning tool that doesn't suckID dc-165 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Venthe, Reddit commenter, self-described | Very small team | Published Oct 28, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Notion vs Jira and other PM toolsID dc-164 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | gitfetchcash, Reddit commenterself-described: Product manager across teams from 5 to 1200 people | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Has anyone actually tried Devin before?ID dc-163 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | johndoerayme1, Reddit commenterself-described: Company using Devin | Very small team | Published Oct 18, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: Claude SkillsID dc-162 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | skinnymuch, Hacker News commenterself-described: Rails and React project builder | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 16, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?ID dc-161 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | kstrauser, Hacker News commenterself-described: Employer that moved company-wide from an earlier tracker | Organization-wide | Published Oct 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Anyone here successfully working with Cursor agents and Linear?ID dc-160 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Senseifc, Reddit poster, self-described | Very small team | Published Oct 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| How do I answer the question, "which people resources free up in mid-October?"ID dc-156 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Narrow_Cost8429, Reddit poster, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?ID dc-157 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Motor_Association493, Reddit posterself-described: Small dev team | Very small team | Published Oct 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?ID dc-158 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Valuable_Word_8310, Reddit commenterself-described: Team of 30 Linear members | Professional team | Published Oct 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anyone else feel like keeping your team aligned in Linear gets way harder once you hit around four or five devs?ID dc-159 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | leonardfactory, Reddit commenterself-described: Small growing team | Very small team | Published Oct 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: "Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymoreID dc-29 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | theshrike79, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company that switched from Jira | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Linear for Marketing Teams feat. RudderStackID s3-29 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Ali McDerment and Eric Dodds, RudderStack product marketing teamself-described: RudderStack's marketing and product teams using Linear for launches and cross-functional work | Professional team | Published Oct 4, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | Not counted. Published on Linear's own YouTube channel. |
| Comment on: What plugins or MCPs are you guys using right now that are actually useful?ID dc-155 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | josephspeezy, Reddit commenterself-described: Marketing specialist, team uses Linear for engineering management | Individual practitioner | Published Oct 2, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearID dc-88 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Economy_List5060, Reddit commenterself-described: Team that moved engineering sprints from Jira and Asana to Linear | Very small team | Published Sep 29, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Linear's import of its exported CSV file ignores too muchID s3-16 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | parnmatt, GitHub issue authorself-described: Moving issues between teams through Linear's own CSV export and import | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 21, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-87 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | sneakysalesman, Reddit commenterself-described: Organization broadcasting Linear updates to per-project Slack channels | Very small team | Published Sep 13, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-77 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | brushali, Product manager of an AI product teamself-described: AI product team of 6, moved from Jira six months earlier | Very small team | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-78 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | abbazabba75, Reddit commenterself-described: Company of about 60 that moved from Notion to Linear | Professional team | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-79 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Imad-aka, Product manager, Reddit commenterself-described: Uses Linear Projects for product discovery | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-80 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | betasridhar, Reddit commenterself-described: Team that switched from Jira | Very small team | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-81 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Standard-Feed-9260, Reddit commenterself-described: Small startup team that moved from ClickUp | Very small team | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-82 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | zach978, Reddit commenterself-described: Switched from Jira a few months earlier | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-83 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | WolfgangBob, Startup co-founder, Reddit commenterself-described: Startup of about 20 with dev, design, marketing, and soon sales teams | Technical leadership | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-84 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | GreenSlices, Reddit commenterself-described: Uses Linear across an organization | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-85 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | CydeSwype, Reddit commenterself-described: Team with many developers who used Jira before | Very small team | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Been using Linear for 6 months vs Jira - here's my brutally honest takeID dc-86 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Vasquo, Reddit commenterself-described: Former Jira user | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What's a modern alternative to Confluence for small dev teams?ID dc-76 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ivarojha, Hacker News commenterself-described: Small dev team using Notion for docs | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 11, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser CompanyID dc-75 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | indemnity, Hacker News commenter, consultantself-described: Consulting side projects | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 5, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: A staff engineer's journey with Claude CodeID dc-153 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | makk, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Sep 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: How many project management tools did you try before finding the right PM software for your team?ID dc-154 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | focustools, Reddit commenterself-described: Team that plans tasks by days and weeks | Very small team | Published Sep 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| why do you like it?ID dc-152 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Fc81jk-Gcj, Reddit posterself-described: Company merged with another, switched from Jira to Linear | Very small team | Published Sep 1, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Why are milestones inside projects and not initiatives?ID dc-151 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Olofadell, Reddit posterself-described: Team runs 1-3 week projects with 1-3 people | Very small team | Published Aug 29, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| everywhere at onceID dc-150 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Le_swiss, Reddit posterself-described: Manages many products, company uses Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Best way to handle handoffs between different functions?ID dc-149 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Commercial_West_8337, Reddit commenterself-described: Product manager with an engineering team, moved from Atlassian to Linear | Very small team | Published Aug 25, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Is Everything Fine with Jira?ID dc-147 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Equivalent_Story6605, Reddit commenter who moved a startup's development departmentself-described: Startup that adopted Jira two years earlier, then moved development to Linear | Technical leadership | Published Aug 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Use Claude Code as AgentID dc-148 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | arnoopt, Reddit posterself-described: Team on a Linear project, wants Claude Code on a laptop to fix team bugs | Very small team | Published Aug 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Head of Product: drowning in Linear + Slack + Figma + HubSpot… how do you keep a single thread of truth?ID dc-74 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Swimming_Hunt9739, Head of product at a funded startupself-described: Startup with Linear for engineering and decisions spread across Slack, Figma, and HubSpot | Technical leadership | Published Aug 21, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: What Tools Do You Use to Manage Projects Without Drowning in Admin Work?ID dc-146 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | jcoolwater, Reddit commenterself-described: 10 developers, 4 QA and product contributors; moved from Linear to Jira for an agile implementation | Professional team | Published Aug 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How do you account for PTOs when planning your cycles?ID dc-145 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Senseifc, Reddit posterself-described: Team running sprint cycles in Linear | Very small team | Published Aug 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Our company's systems are a mess of disconnected tools , how do i implement this flow ?ID dc-144 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | not_you_again53, Reddit commenterself-described: Previous company consolidating seven work-tracking systems, piloted with one team | Very small team | Published Aug 17, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| [Bug/Feature Request] Status doesn't change when destination branch is modifiedID s3-25 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | nicolo-barboni, GitHub issue authorself-described: Team with pull request status automations per target branch | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 11, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: GPT-5 for DevelopersID dc-143 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rcarr, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 10, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?ID dc-28 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | maplealmond, Hacker News commenterself-described: Long-time user of another agile tracker | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit holeID dc-73 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | wooque, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Linear | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Has anyone else been using Height.app? It's shutting down - what are you moving to?ID dc-142 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Qllervo, Reddit commenterself-described: Height user from 2021, switched to Linear in 2025 | Very small team | Published Aug 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| gitlab import is broken - estimates are not allowed to be greater than 64, but gitlab issue exports estimates in secondsID s3-22 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | mtesch-um, GitHub issue authorself-described: Importing 273 GitLab issues with Linear's CLI importer | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit holeID s3-03 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | bytemash.net/ | Bytemash author, web developerself-described: Started using Linear two months before writing; building a personal local-first app | Individual practitioner | Published Aug 5, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Building the platform for agent coordinationID s3-35 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Tom Moor, Head of Engineering at LinearLinear engineering leader explaining Linear as an operating system for teams and agents | Technical leadership | Published Jul 28, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | Not counted. Its speaker is Linear's Head of Engineering. |
| Comment on: It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPAID dc-72 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | paffdragon, Hacker News commenterself-described: Uses Linear at work; view shared by the commenter's team | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Rethinking CLI interfaces for AIID dc-141 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | AchintyaAshok, Hacker News commenterself-described: Building toolprint.ai, an MCP guidance layer; self-promotional context | Very small team | Published Jul 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| [Bug] GitHub issue import not workingID s3-23 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | shortercode, GitHub issue authorself-described: Testing Linear on a personal project to argue for a work trial as a Jira replacement | Individual practitioner | Published Jul 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Comment on: how many more AI dev tools are we going to get?ID dc-140 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | phoenixmatrix, Reddit commenterself-described: Team on Linear and Notion, hands labeled tickets to an AI agent | Very small team | Published Jun 26, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Gemini CLIID dc-139 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | iddan, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team with PMs and engineers using the Xander agent | Very small team | Published Jun 25, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Remote MCP Support in Claude CodeID dc-138 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | nvahalik, Hacker News commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| API returns truncated issue descriptions using MCPID s3-24 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | arcofs, GitHub issue authorself-described: Reading long Linear issues through the MCP server | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Struggling to map ICE scoring to Linear's priority propertyID dc-137 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | paltium, Reddit posterself-described: Small team moving roadmap from Notion to Linear | Very small team | Published Jun 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: A practical guide to building agents [pdf]ID dc-71 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | baalimago, Hacker News commenterself-described: Company using Linear as its ticketing system; hackathon project | Individual practitioner | Published Jun 9, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| I'm planning cycles wrong and I want to improveID dc-136 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | IdeoREX, Reddit posterself-described: Engineering team of 8 SWEs on Linear for 6 months | Very small team | Published May 30, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What's the best tool you've used for sprint planning?ID dc-27 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | spoiler, Hacker News commenterself-described: Software engineer, employer not named | Individual practitioner | Published May 29, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| In Project View, it is hard to tell which projects belong to which priority levelID dc-135 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | kurt-rhee, GitHub issue authorself-described: Software and product work in solar, per GitHub bio | Individual practitioner | Published May 23, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Everything’s a bug (or an issue)ID dc-134 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | stevekemp, Hacker News commenterself-described: Employer-chosen Linear | Individual practitioner | Published May 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Everything's a bug (or an issue)ID dc-70 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | arzmir, Hacker News commenterself-described: Small greenfield project with 5 to 6 developers | Very small team | Published May 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: How do you manage client retainers? Built a tool, curious if usefulID dc-133 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | withinboredom, Hacker News commenterself-described: Consulting practice billing clients by half-day | Individual practitioner | Published May 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Which MCP servers do you use with Cursor?ID dc-132 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | TheJedinator, Reddit commenterself-described: Developer on a team with a Postgres backend, Linear tasks in Cursor via MCP | Individual practitioner | Published May 2, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| I moved our engineering org from Jira to LinearID s3-01 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Morgan Linton, Co-founder and CTO at Bold MetricsBold Metrics, whose engineering organization he moved from Jira to Linear | Technical leadership | Published Apr 30, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| How I use Linear to manage my SaaSID tc-02 | Talks & Videos | www.youtube.com/ | Brian Casel, SaaS founderself-described: SaaS product run with two developers and one support person, moved from GitHub Issues to Linear | Very small team | Published Apr 14, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: WebTUI - A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the WebID dc-69 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | santiagobasulto, Hacker News commenterself-described: Founder of DataWars, previously co-founded rmotr.com | Individual practitioner | Published Apr 13, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Help me tell leadership why we shouldn't use Monday for product managementID dc-131 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Interested_3rd_party, Reddit commenterself-described: Product manager, previous role used Linear for product and engineering | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 28, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Our startup's journey from Notion to LinearID s3-02 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Jacob Beckerman, co-founder and CEO of Macroself-described: Macro, an 18-person startup whose engineers moved its tickets from Notion to Linear | Professional team | Published Feb 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Amp up the stone age-esque automation of LinearID dc-130 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | ravishqureshi, GitHub issue author scaling engineering and productself-described: New org on Linear; author is a long-time Jira and Confluence user | Technical leadership | Published Feb 18, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Solo Founders: How Do You Stay Organized?ID dc-68 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mrdependable, Solo founderself-described: Solo founder; Intercom for customers, Linear for features | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 13, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearID dc-67 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Jumpy-Evidence-5766, Reddit commenter, self-described | Individual practitioner | Published Feb 8, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: If your customers don't talk, NPS is a vanity metricID dc-64 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | MarcelOlsz, Hacker News commenter who has moved several teams to Linearself-described: Moved multiple teams off their previous ticketing systems | Technical leadership | Published Feb 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearID dc-65 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | previaegg, Chief product officer at a fast-growing startupself-described: Started a new team on Linear, then moved the whole operation to Jira after two years | Technical leadership | Published Feb 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearID dc-66 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | praying4exitz, Reddit commenterself-described: Team that chose Linear over Jira and Asana | Very small team | Published Feb 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Constant linear issuesID dc-129 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Icy-Victory9882, Reddit posterself-described: Team using Linear cycles for a few months | Very small team | Published Feb 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearID dc-62 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | FlowRadiant3102, Reddit commenterself-described: Previous organization moved from Jira to Linear | Very small team | Published Feb 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Jira/Asana to LinearID dc-63 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | ASHLEYakaASHLEY, Product manager, Reddit commenterself-described: Current company on Linear after Asana at a previous one | Very small team | Published Feb 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Show HN: I built one of my favorite Linear features for GitHub IssuesID dc-61 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | dayabsm, Hacker News commenterself-described: Team triaging bugs in Linear with the GitHub integration on | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Switching to Linear was another transformational change in Brex 3.0.ID dc-121 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | James Reggio, CTO at BrexBrex, in the CTO's own post on X | Technical leadership | Published Jan 22, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | Not counted. The post quotes Linear's own recruiting campaign, and Linear features Brex in a customer story on its site. |
| Phasing Out from JIRAID ir-28 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | galliot.us/ | Reza Khosravi, Co-founder at Galliotself-described: Galliot, a software agency that moved its teams from Jira to Linear in the second half of 2024 | Professional team | Published Jan 11, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Feature request: Auto assign an issue to a user when status changesID dc-128 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | mtebele, GitHub issue authorself-described: Dev team where developers hand issues to a tech lead for review, Argentina | Individual practitioner | Published Jan 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Any tool recommendations for dynamic resource planning?ID dc-127 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | vishnu97, Reddit posterself-described: Startup using Linear for sprints, synced with GitHub, planning to hire | Very small team | Published Jan 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Billing and plansID pd-01 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| AI creditsID pd-02 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Usage and limitsID pd-03 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| AI agentsID pd-04 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Linear AgentID pd-05 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Coding sessionsID pd-06 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Triage IntelligenceID pd-07 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Code IntelligenceID pd-08 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| ReviewsID pd-09 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| GitHubID pd-10 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| MCP serverID pd-11 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| CyclesID pd-12 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| JiraID pd-13 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Import guideID pd-14 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| InsightsID pd-15 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| SecurityID pd-16 | Product Documentation | linear.app/ | LinearOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 12, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
