Linear Blog

It took much longer than anticipated, and at times it was a struggle to keep the momentum going, but more than a 1,000 PRs later, we migrated Linear’s React applications from styled-components to StyleX. styled-components served Linear surprisingly well for a long time. Its API was very flexible, styles stayed colocated with components, and you could reach for regular CSS whene...

We completed a $99 million tender offer, giving current and former teammates the opportunity to sell a portion of their vested equity at a $2.5 billion valuation. Existing investors Accel and 01A participated alongside new investors Salesforce Ventures and S32. Our previous tender offer took place last year alongside our Series C at a $1.25 billion valuation. Fundraising can be...

Linear is a local-first application. Each client maintains a local database so that creating an issue, changing its status, or navigating a workspace doesn’t require a network round trip. That makes the app feel immediate, but the tradeoff is that a client returning online needs a way to catch up, fast. Rather than download the entire workspace again, the client sends a checkpo...

Most software is designed to behave consistently. Good engineering has typically meant shrinking the space of possible outcomes until the same action reliably produces the same result. AI inverts that logic, at least somewhat. Much of Linear Agent’s value lies in doing work we didn’t anticipate in ways we never explicitly defined; script its behavior too tightly, and we’d dilut...