Karri Saarinen

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Jul 25, 2025
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Saarinen: Linear built its first landing page in one day
“We created in basically one day. We didn't want to spend weeks or months trying to create a website where we think like the actual effort should be put into the product itself.”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 2:21 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2025
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Saarinen: Linear focused on speed to win startup early adopters
“Two things. One is like the speed was one of the main problems we heard from a lot of people we talked to, that they just don't like the tools because they're slow. And it makes sense. Like a linear is kind of like this very, it's like almost like an email cli…”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 34:18 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2025
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Saarinen: Highlight unique differences rather than directly comparing to competitors
“I don't think you should, like, make, compare it to yourself to the competition, like, directly, like, say, like, hey, we do better this and that, like, or something like that. But, like, I think you should look at, like, what are those companies saying? How a…”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 32:49 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2025 negative
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Saarinen: Overly polished websites create misleading expectations for early-stage startups
“You might try to, like, build very polished or fancy websites very early on, but what that kind of, like, tells you is, like, it maybe sets the wrong expectation for the user, that if your product is just that, I don't know, you built it last month, and, like,…”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 1:26 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2025 negative
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Saarinen: Excessive automatic page motion creates visual chaos and should be reduced
“There's also, like, a lot of automatic movement on this page, which I do think, like, adds to the chaos, so there could be some of that, but, like, I would, like, basically every section is almost, like, moving, and so I think it's, yeah, like, there's, again,…”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 42:15 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2025 negative
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Saarinen: Yellow is a difficult color to use for UI buttons
“I think yellow is a hard, like, you should go darker with it, or not use yellow, because it's a little bit hard color to use for button.”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 39:29 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2025
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Saarinen: Pair standard body fonts with unique headline typefaces on websites
“It's not like you should just use one typeface, everything, because in small sizes, A lot of typefaces don't work. You probably have to use something fairly standard so people can read it. But for headlines and special points, you can pair it with something li…”
Karri Saarinen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 27:54 Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
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