Tuomas Artman
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
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The MVP as a hacky product built to validate an idea no longer works: in a saturated market you have to build something substantially better from day one.
The MVP as a practice of building a hacky product as quickly and cheaply as possible to validate the product does no longer work. Many product categories are already saturated with a variety of alternatives, and to truly test the viability of any new idea you need to build something that is substantially better.
linear.appSaid 28 Feb 2024This on korrents
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The MVP as a hacky product built to validate an idea no longer works: in a saturated market you have to build something substantially better from day one.
The MVP as a practice of building a hacky product as quickly and cheaply as possible to validate the product does no longer work. Many product categories are already saturated with a variety of alternatives, and to truly test the viability of any new idea you need to build something that is substantially better.
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product Said 28 Feb 2024
To compete with limited resources, scope down who you are building for as much as possible and solve the problems of specific people.
To be able to do this with limited resources, you must scope down your audience (and thus your ambitions) as much as possible to make competing easier, and aim to solve the problems of specific people.
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product Said 28 Feb 2024
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Where they publish
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- I would not call Linear Diffs life changing myself (yet), but I’ll take the compliment! 20 Oct 2026
- See you all in London! 19 Oct 2026
- Join us for our first ever conference, to explore the future of product development. 14 Oct 2026
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- Gemini Argon: In greek Gemini gives you a twin, Argon gives you a word that literally means “idle,” so you’ve got two of them not working. 🤔 13 Oct 2026
- Let’s meet up in Paris! 12 Oct 2026
- Are people still using visual git clients? If so, what's the best client out there? What would make it even better? 10 Oct 2026
- Making excellent software is simple. First you have to acknowledge that its not good enough. The you need the will to improve it. Repeat. 9 Oct 2026
- If stacking is your thing, here you go! 8 Oct 2026
- Software factory? I don't want to work at a factory. Do you? 8 Oct 2026
- How about I log in to my computer, and that's it! Logged in everywhere! 5 Oct 2026
- Many of you haven't tried out Linear reviews yet. You should! We're making improvements every day, but it already is the best code review tool in existence. You'll find it in your sidebar. 5 Oct 2026
- This is the reason why I’ve disliked Ruby and Rails since I got exposed to it. I never was able to overcome the ridiculous slowness of it. 29 Sept 2026
- Day 1 of the @linear offsite in Montreal started at this magnificent location with co-working and preparation for the week. What would you want to see from us? 28 Sept 2026
- @airfrance, come on guys. I log in with my old account. It says I don't have a Flying blue number. I sign up for Flying blue. It says I can't because I supposedly already have a Flying blue number. I try to delete my account to create a new one. It says error, can't delete account. I try to create a wholly new account with a new email address. It says "resource not authorized". I try again. I get the attached screenshot. Please hire someone that cares? 27 Sept 2026
- jev in production, starting with the most important use-case. 25 Sept 2026
- The state of Airline apps is horrendous. Just today I’ve been trying to login, reset password, create new account on both Air France and EasyJet, without succeeding in any of the operations. 22 Sept 2026
- The new season of Silicon Valley indeed writes itself. 17 Sept 2026
- Diff on the go. 17 Sept 2026
- Teaser: the very first Linear conference is coming to San Francisco in December. 15 Sept 2026
- Tell me that you’ve never used AI without telling me that you’ve never used AI. 14 Sept 2026
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