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The $2.5 Billion Argument for Fewer Buttons
Three Finnish founders built an issue tracker for the people stuck using one. Seven years later, Linear sells a broader system for product teams and agents - while arguing that good defaults beat endless configuration.
Linear Kept Its Name. Shortcut Had to Start Over
Two elegant answers to Jira arrived with similar ambitions. Then a runaway audio app forced one of them to rebuild its identity while the other kept shipping under the name it started with.
Shortcut Had to Change Its Name. Jira Never Did
When the audio app Clubhouse swallowed its name, a project-management startup had to begin again as Shortcut. The episode shows why brand memory can matter as much as a cleaner backlog.
Your Free Project Tracker Is Already Choosing Your Company
Linear, Shortcut and Jira all offer free plans. The bill begins at different bottlenecks, and those limits quietly shape the team each product is built to win.
Marker.io
Capture website feedback, bug reports, and visual feedback faster - without endless emails, PDFs, or screenshots.
Height
Height was a New York-based software company that built an AI-native project management and collaboration tool for product teams. Founded in 2018 by ex-Stripe designer-engineer Michael Villar, Height combined tasks, chat, and adaptive workflows in one keyboard-first app, then pivoted to an 'autonomous' model in which an AI agent called Copilot handled the routine legwork of building software - triaging bugs, updating specs, pruning backlogs, and drafting standups. Backed by roughly $18.3M in venture funding, Height competed with Linear, Asana, and Jira before winding the product down in 2025.
Shortcut
Shortcut is a New York-based software company that builds a fast, lightweight project management and issue-tracking platform for software teams. Founded in 2014 as Clubhouse, it sits between the simplicity of Linear and the depth of Jira, offering sprints, boards, roadmaps, milestones, and automations. In 2025 it launched Korey, an AI agent that turns ideas into build-ready plans and orchestrates work across humans and AI agents. The platform has powered 21 million-plus completed stories across 50,000-plus organizations.