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What is this product anyway? > "Linear is a tool to remove barriers. Powerful yet simple to use, it helps you to plan ahead, make better decisions and execute
by kumarvvr 4y ago
What is this product anyway?
> "Linear is a tool to remove barriers. Powerful yet simple to use, it helps you to plan ahead, make better decisions and execute faster. You don’t have to come up with best practices for how to use Linear — we already built them directly into the product."
So much weasel words. "tool to remove barriers", "plan ahead, make better decision and execute faster".
Going a bit deep into the features page shows some features, but why not have them front and center, in plain english, on a simple, handmade HTML page, that is fast and easy to browse?
Note : I do come from a software engineering background, but as a solo developer.
- julianlam 4y agoIt's a ticketing system whose killer feature is that practically everything is a keyboard shortcut. It's pretty neat and let's you really get in the flow of things.
- kumarvvr 4y agoIts not obvious at first sight.
- warent 4y agoBeing contrarian about landing pages is just a popular HN meme at this point... Front and center: Streamline issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. A huge image of a board that looks similar to JIRA. Then scroll down slightly. Front and center: Built for your keyboard - Fly through your tasks with rapid-fire keyboard shortcuts for everything.
- oxff 4y agoI got a "so what" effect in under 1.5 seconds from opening the website which resulted into me ctrl+w'ing my ass out of it. If your landing page is like this it just blows.
- cercatrova 4y agoWhat do you mean by a "so what" effect? Not sure I've heard that phrase before used in the context of an effect.
- thangngoc89 4y agoThis is very popular in academic world. “So what” effect usually means so what is the point of this paper/website/articles? After the reader have read the whole thing from top to bottom.
- warent 4y agoit's possible for two things to be simultaneously true: you're not the target market, and the landing page doesn't "blow"
- kumarvvr 4y ago> Streamline issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. How about - Software that simplifies work management for teams
- intev 4y agoAt this point you are grasping at straws. Your initial point was: > What is this product anyway? It's extremely clear what their product is, and scrolling just a little immediately gives you an idea of how they are trying to differentiate. Your current suggestion is a simple copy change that's very slightly different from the original.
- kirso 4y agoWhen people say contrarian, it means it became mainstream :) For every single post of product announcement there is a comment bitching about `value prop`. I agree sometimes marketing messages are terribly written. Look at the Obsidian thread from yesterday. Similar complaints. However... all it takes is just to scroll. There is a screenshot which takes 60% of the homepage screen that shows an issue tracker. Cmon folks, we can do better.
- tflinton 4y agoI’m not sure how keyboard shortcuts is a killer feature.
- alpaca128 4y agoThey shouldn't be a noteworthy feature, but unfortunately we're at a point where even basic browser functionality like tabs and scrolling may break in some web UIs.
- annadane 4y agoA lot of websites are like this for products, it makes it really tedious to navigate
- cercatrova 4y agoIt's like JIRA but better, more specifically built for software engineers as opposed to being a general tool.
- its_notion 4y agoJira introduced mainstream audiences to "one task assigned to one person." A radical idea, then, in corporate environments. Everything else doesn't matter.
- xwowsersx 4y agoIt's pretty clear what it is and those aren't weasel words. You might just not read very well.
- whateveracct 4y agoIt's an issue tracker with insane frontend technical investment.
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