will this work ? notion specs and linear tickets in sync
Posted by kingofpyrates@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 8 comments
there's something on my mind bugging since i joined my new startup.
our team writes all our specs and PRDs in Notion. our other staff then manually create Linear tickets from them. later, tickets cleared, prs merged, notion as it is. we tried to keep both in sync manually, but no one really cares about it honestly.
so I'm building a sync between Notion and Linear (and GitHub). its actually simple, create a row in your Notion database, a ticket appears in Linear automatically. Ticket gets picked up and merged, Notion updates. no manual work.
but i wana gut check..
-Do you actually care about keeping Notion and Linear in sync, or do you just accept that they'll diverge?
- Is the pain mostly on the Notion→Linear direction, or do you also want Linear changes reflected back?
and finally, would you pay for it?
throwaway_0x90@reddit
I don't think anyone would pay for this. It sounds like a script or extension that an intern could put together in under a week.
kingofpyrates@reddit (OP)
lol 😂
im just fresher out of college in a startup, idk if i can pull it off to beat zapier but id really wana listen what 20yoe person would suggest, i want to build something useful for people who use notion in their companies, now that notion has an mcp, its kind of more doable, lmk if u have a say
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throwaway_0x90@reddit
Now that I see there really is a market out there for it, my only suggestion is to research other providers as much as possible and see where you can improve/innovate over them. Sometimes there are things you can beat big tech at.
e.g., I shouldn't say this but Google is infamous for having poor customer support.
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Tahazarif90@reddit
Most teams accept the divergence because manual syncing fails, but the actual pain is Linear-to-Notion reflection for PMs who need high-level roadmap tracking without diving into git commits. Developers hate updating two places, so automating the feedback loop is valuable, but monetizing it is tough since Linear has native GitHub sync and tools like Zapier/Make already cover basic webhook triggers. Does your tool parse unstructured Notion text into specific Linear sub-tasks, or just handle basic status updates?
If_I_Could_Just@reddit
lowercase and mispelings, this guy humans
Financial-Grass6753@reddit
Nope, like at all.
You don't really need Notion here: you can add PRDs and specs and all that formalia as resources (\~= files) to the corresponding project/issue/milestone/whatever in the Linear. Linear's search and MCP are completely ok for data diving, you realistically don't need Notion in that case.