Productivity · $8/mo

Can I vibe code Linear?

Issue tracking and project planning built for software teams.

🟡Kinda — with gapsest. a weekend

A personal issue tracker — issues with states, labels, priorities, and a command palette — is a very satisfying weekend build. What you can't easily reproduce is what makes Linear Linear: the real-time multiplayer sync engine, the GitHub and Slack integrations, cycles and triage for a team, and the obsessive craft and speed. Solo, you get 80% of the feel; as a team tool, the sync and integrations are the moat. Build it for yourself, but respect the gap.

The one-shot prompt
Build me a fast, keyboard-first personal issue tracker inspired by Linear. Core: issues with title, markdown description, status (Backlog/Todo/In Progress/Done/Canceled), priority, and labels; a command palette (Cmd-K) to create and navigate; and both a grouped list view and a board view. Make it feel instant with optimistic updates and snappy keyboard shortcuts for every action. Use Next.js App Router with a hosted Postgres. This is single-user, so skip real-time multiplayer and integrations, but note in the README that Linear's sync engine, git integrations, and cycles are the deliberately-omitted moat.
Paste into Claude Code, Codex, or your agent of choice — then steer. Learn the moves in Prompt Engineering.
What you build

A keyboard-driven issue tracker with states, labels, priorities, a command palette, and list/board views for one person.

What you give up
  • The real-time sync engine that keeps a team's boards instantly consistent
  • GitHub, GitLab, and Slack integrations that automate status changes
  • Cycles, triage, roadmaps, and team velocity insights
  • The relentless performance and design polish Linear is known for
Why people still pay

Linear's value is team velocity: instant multiplayer sync, tight git integrations, and an opinionated workflow a whole engineering org adopts — the craft and the network effect are the moat, not the issue schema.

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Actually build it

A prompt is the first move, not the whole game. Course 01 teaches you to take a prompt like this one to a shipped, working app — reviewing, correcting, and steering the agent the whole way.

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