Tired of LinearB's Setup Hell?
3 months configuring LinearB. Still just dashboards. We give you answers in 5 minutes.
The Real LinearB Problem
We've all been there. Here's what actually happens.
Week 1-2: The Setup Marathon
LinearB: Create work categories. Map every repo. Configure team hierarchies. Label everything. Set up GitStream rules (that nobody understands). Train the team on dashboards. Wonder if this is worth it.
TeamOnTrack: Connect GitHub. 5 minutes. Done. "Your cycle time is slow because PRs wait 4 days for review. Sarah reviews 78% of them. Here's how to fix it."
Month 3: Dashboard Fatigue Sets In
LinearB: Beautiful dashboards everywhere. Velocity trends, cycle time metrics, DORA scores. Cool. But your sprints still slip. PRs still sit for days. You know WHAT but not WHY. The team stopped looking at dashboards weeks ago.
TeamOnTrack: No dashboard staring required. We send a Slack message: "Your deployment frequency dropped 60% after adding manual security reviews. Teams who automated these checks deploy 3x more. Here's the exact automation they use."
The GitStream Nightmare
LinearB: "Just write some YAML rules for GitStream!" they said. Now you're debugging YAML, maintaining rules nobody understands, and your team is bypassing them anyway because they break more than they fix.
TeamOnTrack: No rules. No YAML. AI learns from your actual patterns and suggests improvements that make sense. If something's not working, it tells you why and how to fix it. In English, not YAML.
Why CTOs Rage-Quit LinearB
Direct quotes from the trenches
"3 months of setup, still useless"
"We spent 3 months setting up LinearB. Creating work categories, mapping repos, training the team. After all that? We have beautiful dashboards that tell us our velocity is '42' and cycle time is '5.2 days'. Great. Now what? Nobody knows what to do with this data."
"GitStream is a YAML nightmare"
"They sold us on GitStream automation. Reality? Writing complex YAML rules that break constantly. My senior engineers are debugging YAML instead of shipping features. The irony of using a 'productivity tool' that makes us less productive isn't lost on me."
"Developers hate it"
"LinearB is a manager tool, period. My developers see it as surveillance. They don't use it, don't trust it, and actively resent it. The only person who looks at the dashboards is me, and I don't know what to do with the data."
"$50K for pretty graphs"
"We're paying $50K/year for LinearB. Know what we got? The same DORA metrics everyone else has, velocity theater for the board, and zero actual improvements. My CFO is asking hard questions and I don't have good answers."
LinearB vs TeamOnTrack: The TL;DR
Skip the feature lists. Here's what matters.
LinearB Reality Check
• 2-4 weeks setting up categories
• Still just shows you metrics
• GitStream YAML hell
• 10+ developer minimum
• "Contact sales" pricing
• Developers ignore it
TeamOnTrack Reality
• 5 minutes to first insight
• Tells you exactly what to fix
• AI learns your patterns
• Works for 3 or 300 devs
• $29/dev/month, transparent
• Developers actually use it
The One Question That Matters
LinearB: "Your cycle time is 5.2 days and velocity is trending down."
Cool story. Now what?
TeamOnTrack: "Your cycle time is high because PRs wait 4 days for review. Sarah reviews 78% of them. Teams who distributed reviews saw 60% improvement. Here's how they did it: [specific steps]"
That's the difference. Answers, not metrics.
Escape LinearB in 15 Minutes
Your team will thank you
Monday: Start Trial
Sign up. No credit card. Keep LinearB running (for now).
Monday + 5 minutes: Connect GitHub
Same OAuth flow as LinearB, minus the 2-week setup marathon.
Monday + 10 minutes: First Insight
"Your PRs are stuck because of X. Here's exactly how to fix it." Not "your velocity is 42." Actual answers.
Tuesday: Show Your Team
"Hey team, look at this - it actually tells us what's wrong and how to fix it." Watch their relief.
Week 2: Cancel LinearB
Save $50K/year. Stop maintaining YAML files. Actually ship faster.
Real CTO, Real Quote:
"I was skeptical. Another metrics tool? But TeamOnTrack actually told us our problem on day one: too much gatekeeping in PR reviews. LinearB showed us the symptom (slow cycle time) for 3 months but never the cause. We fixed the bottleneck in a week. Canceled LinearB the next day."