With the 50heads Linear app, anyone in your Linear workspace can ask verified people a short question from an issue. 50heads replies on the issue with the price and posts the results there as a comment when the question closes.

Adding it to Linear

  1. In 50heads, open Settings, then Integrations.
  2. Choose Add to Linear. Linear shows what the app can do in your workspace.
  3. Allow it, and you're back on the Integrations page with the workspace listed.

On a personal account, you can add it yourself. On a team, only the team's owner or an admin can add, change or remove it. Other members can see that it's there.

The app joins your workspace as its own member, called 50heads. One Linear workspace belongs to one 50heads account at a time.

Who pays

Every ask from Linear spends the credits of the 50heads account that added the app: yours, or your team's. Credits are the money you add to your 50heads balance to pay for answers. People in Linear don't need a 50heads account, and they never see your card or billing details.

Because anyone in the workspace can ask, each workspace has a daily spend cap.

The daily cap

A new workspace can spend up to 2,000 credits a day. You can change it on the Integrations page, from 100 to 10,000,000 credits; the change takes effect right away.

An ask that would go over the cap is refused on the issue, and nothing is spent. The cap starts again at midnight UTC. More in Spend caps.

Asking from an issue

Start a comment on the issue with /50heads ask, then write the question:

/50heads ask Which name is easier to remember? | Crumb & Co | Steelworks

If Linear opens its own menu when you type /, start with @50heads ask or 50heads: ask instead.

  • Options go after the question, separated by |, or as a bulleted list on the lines below it. Give 2 to 4.
  • No options asks a yes or no question.
  • Heads: 20 people answer. Put 50 or 100 straight after ask to change it, for example /50heads ask 50 Which ….
  • Language: write the question in the language of the 50heads account that added the app, as set in its settings. Heads who read that language answer.

50heads asks at Tier 1 (phone-verified people). It replies on the issue with what the ask costs, and attaches a link to the question to the issue. The question is filed in 50heads with the issue's identifier, for example linear:ENG-42, so you can find it later.

A comment that doesn't start with /50heads is never read as a question. /50heads help replies with how to ask.

If Linear sends the same comment to us again, it is asked, and charged, once.

The results comment

When the question closes, 50heads adds a comment to the issue with:

  • the question;
  • how many chose each option, as a bar for each;
  • which option led, and how strong the lead is for a sample of that size;
  • a link to the full results in 50heads.

Comments from 50heads are in English for now.

What Linear sees

Linear sees what the app posts: the price of each ask, the question, the options, how many chose each, how strong the lead is and the link to the results. To read the command, 50heads receives new comments in the workspace; it keeps only the comment that starts with /50heads, its issue and its id.

Linear never sees who answered. No head's name, account, phone or location goes to Linear, and neither do card, bank or billing details.

Removing it

Either:

  • in Settings, then Integrations, choose Remove next to the workspace; or
  • remove 50heads from Linear's own settings, under applications.

Either way, the app loses its access right away. Questions already asked still finish and still appear in 50heads, but no more comments are posted to Linear.