Linear costs $8. Track will cost $0.

Let's start with honesty: Linear is probably the best issue tracker ever built. If you've used it, you know. And it's also the perfect demonstration of everything wrong with SaaS.

What we love about Linear

We're not here to throw stones. We're here to copy the good parts:

• The speed. Everything is instant. Mutations are optimistic, sync is real-time, there's never a spinner. Speed isn't a detail: it's what makes the team want to keep the board updated.
• Keyboard first. Cmd+K and you never touch the mouse. Create, assign, move, close: all from the keyboard. The tool disappears and only the work remains.
• Cycles. Sprints without ceremony. Work comes in, gets prioritized, gets done, gets measured. No two weeks spent configuring workflows and permissions.

Linear proved an issue tracker can feel like a modern text editor. That's real, and it's hard.

What we don't love: the bill

The basic plan is $8 per user per month, billed annually. Let's do the math any CTO does:

• Team of 10: $960 a year.
• Team of 50: $4,800 a year.
• Team of 200: $19,200 a year.

For what? Storing issues — title, description, status, priority, a few timestamps — in a database. The real infrastructure cost per seat is measured in cents. And the price grows in the wrong direction: the bigger your team, the bigger the bill, the more painful the exit. Your entire product history is held hostage.

What Track will have

Track is our Linear clone, in construction now, shipping Q4 2026. The short list:

• Issues with statuses, priorities, labels and assignees.
• Cycles, with velocity and automatic progress.
• Truly keyboard-first: command palette and shortcuts for everything.
• Speed as a non-negotiable requirement, not a roadmap goal.
• API from day one.
• Self-host from day one too: one deploy, your Postgres, your data.

No 40-screen workflow builder. No paid plugin marketplace. No "talk to sales".

Why it will cost $0

Because it's software, and software is bits, and bits are free. Track's code will be open source: download it, audit it, run it for your whole team without paying a cent. If you don't want to host it, we run it for you and you pay exactly what the cloud costs. At cost. No margin.

Linear charges $8 per seat because it can. We charge $0 because we can. The difference is the model, not the technology.

The waitlist

Track ships in Q4 2026. If you want early access — and a say in what gets built first — join the waitlist at zerosoftware.ai. The site is in English, Spanish and Portuguese, like everything we build.

Linear showed how a tracker should feel. Track will show how much it should cost.