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Powerful planning for Product Management

Index is the new product planning and discovery tool for Product Managers, built specifically for Linear. Collect ideas, manage feedback, and build product plans.
Index
Founded:2023
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Group Partner:Dalton Caldwell
Active Founders

Simon Kubica, Founder

Simon Kubica is an Australian entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Index, one of the few Australian companies ever accepted into Y Combinator. He has featured in Forbes and Business Insider, and was previously a product leader at Atlassian, working on Jira, Forge, and new products and platforms.
Simon Kubica
Simon Kubica
Index

Christian Iacullo, Founder

Christian Iacullo is an Australian software engineer who is the co-founder and CTO of Index. Before founding Index, Christian was a software engineer at Canva, where he worked on their Editor, Developer Platform, Education and Collaboration products. Christian began his career at Atlassian, where he worked on Confluence.
Christian Iacullo
Christian Iacullo
Index

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How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

The co-founders (Simon Kubica and Christian Iacullo) met in Sydney in 2016 through mutual friends. We were toying with the idea of starting a company at that point, but felt we still had a lot to learn from all of the tech companies springing up around us. Christian went to Canva, Simon went to Atlassian, and we spent about 5 years at each. Both companies turned out to be rocketships, building our skillsets and helping us grow through all of the talented people around us. Reflecting on our experiences in both companies, one of the clearest burning problems was how painful and fragmented planning was. So seven years later, we finally saw the opportunity to bring a product of our own into the world.

What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?

Today, the Index app is the best product planning tool for Linear Product Management. It’s a Productboard and Jira Product Discovery alternative for modern teams, helping them collect ideas, manage feedback, and build roadmaps – all tightly integrated with Linear.

What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?

Our vision is giving every company an ‘Index’ of all their projects, goals, and feature requests, rather than this being scattered across tools or mixed in with their issue tracker.

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