14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Linear first-hand: 10 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We moved to Linear, which is 2 years younger than ClickUp, but it's solid in what it offers.”
endorse · production · pas · 2026-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my team is very happy we migrated from Notion to Linear for task tracking last year”
endorse · production · 1 yr · alexey-salmin · 2025-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“its near-complete lack of automations, and no REST api, only GraphQL ... did not impress me.”
regret · production · xp84 · 2023-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now with linear we're much more efficient.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · bndr · 2023-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's been about a year now since we've fully committed to Linear. I'm very glad we have! ... I can't imagine ever using another tool”
endorse · production · 1 yr · c_t_montgomery · 2022-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated from JIRA to Linear for our small team, and haven't looked back.”
endorse · production · nemothekid · 2022-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I spend all day in Linear and really love it! Thanks for your quick response to the ddos today”
endorse · production · taylorfinley · 2022-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Linear.app is awesome. We switched from Jira and our team's participation on issues went through the roof.”
endorse · production · new_here · 2022-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to using Linear at work this past year and have blown away by how good the user experience feels”
endorse · production · 1 yr · WonderPandaDev · 2022-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Linear, too, and it's pretty great. literally everyone on the engineering team was happy when we moved to it.”
endorse · production · kstrauser · 2022-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to http://linear.app and are very happy with it.”
endorse · production · spacemonkey92 · 2022-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“dev write commits that are linked to our Linear issues. Tech explanations are in commits, product explanations are in linear issues.”
neutral · production · sulot3212 · 2026-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated from jira -> linear, pagerduty -> oncallmanager”
neutral · production · finedev · 2026-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Linear for example - and there are still growing pains from heavy Jira users”
neutral · production · theshrike79 · 2025-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?