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2yr ago

Linear vs other project planners

I checked out https://linear.app a few weeks ago. It's a very slick looking product. And some folks feel really passionate about Linear. I have heard engineers say: "I would leave my role if my company decided to switch from Linear."
Question for those who have extensive experience with Linear: what makes Linear such a great product? Should I seriously consider migrating to Linear? I have used Jira and Asana a bunch. And, honestly, Jira and Asana seem fine. What am I missing?

3d ago

One conversation changed our roadmap.


We expected users to ask for more features.
Instead, they kept asking for fewer steps to complete the same task.
That changed the way we think about product development. Adding functionality isn t always progress. Sometimes removing friction creates much more value.
Has customer feedback ever completely changed the direction of your product?

3mo ago

What building a presence-aware app taught me about productivity software

One thing surprised me while building my app:

A lot of productivity software assumes activity = attention.

Pacing the Frontier-A statement from 1,224 employees of frontier AI companies calling government

Hey folks,

just saw that there is a petition going on by the big frontier model companies, asking the US government to develop technical and governance tools to pace the AI development.

3d ago

What is the client message you told yourself you would answer in five minutes, then did not?

Every one of my businesses has one of these somewhere right now, a message I read, decided was not urgent, and then lost inside everything else that felt more urgent in the moment. By the time I remember it, I cannot always tell if it still needs a fast reply or if the moment already passed. Curious how everyone else catches these before they turn into an apology text. Is it a system, a habit, or mostly luck.

2mo ago

What's the smallest change you made to your product that had the biggest impact?

Not major features. Not redesigns.

Tiny tweaks. A button colour. A two-word change in copy. Removing a form field.

What's one micro-change that unexpectedly moved a metric?

Let's collect the smallest wins with the biggest outcomes.

1mo ago

If you got a $5M investment today, how would you spend it?

Imagine a $5M check just landed in your account today. How would you spend it?

Here's my rough split:

A question that completely changed our customer interviews

Early on, we'd ask:

"What features do you want?"

The answers were usually long wish lists.

Then we changed one question:

17d ago

What actually makes a product feel finished?

We've been building our product for more than two years, and one thing I've realized is that a product can be functional long before it feels finished.

The major features may already work, but small inconsistencies, unclear onboarding, unfinished empty states, minor bugs, or confusing copy can still make the whole experience feel early.

The hard shift from "perfect code" to "fast shipping": What broke along the way

Hey Product Hunt community!

Coming from an engineering and agency background, our default mindset was always to write clean, fully modular, and perfectly scalable code before pushing anything to production.

However, building our own Micro-SaaS products quickly shattered that mindset.

We learned the hard way that spending weeks over-architecting a feature that users might not even want is the fastest way to waste momentum. Shifting to "shipping fast and listening to user feedback" forced us to make uncomfortable trade-offs between technical debt and speed.

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