I have an issue with the way they continue to market themselves as being altruistic and a defender of startup founders everywhere rather than your run of the mill predatory, self-interested SF VC.
If you look at the batch data [1] it is very clear that there is either an investment thesis or some inherent bias in how they choose startups. Since Garry Tan took over it is now heavily favoured towards (a) SF based, (b) young, (c) AI centric.
And if you look at the partner YouTube videos you see why. There is a concerning lack of diversity in how they see the world i.e. they are all very much the e/acc types.
a) Almost all of the other incubators are just awful. Either they are predatory, ineptly managed or simply not well capitalised enough to offer a competitive product.
b) YC is able to rest on its laurels i.e. they can/do market how well AirBnb, Stripe etc have done. And so their funnel of talent is by far the best.
c) That said, YC is the worst I've ever seen it. And Garry Tan is mostly to blame although it's been trending downwards for a while. It's now as if Jake Paul ran an incubator: very hype driven, cynical, focused on easily exploitable young 20s males.
It's amazing how people think Project Management = Issues (and only issues).
Release Management is a fundamental part of IT Project Management. So of course companies use Jira to track releases. And of course you can tie milestones and OKRs to releases. And of course tickets can have small amounts of text content associated with them. How else would you describe the ticket without them ?
But the idea of Jira being remotely like a Confluence style wiki is just ridiculous.
And your comment is out of some parallel universe where Jira is Confluence.
a) Support tickets, sprint planning, kanban etc are all part of project management.
b) It can't manage your pipelines. It can visualise deployments and link them to work but you still need some sort of CI/CD tool like Bitbucket, Github etc.
c) It is not an anything app. I can't use it as a wiki, CRM, database, calendar etc.
Actually today's Confluence is much better than Notion in my opinion.
It has a built in Figma style diagram/flow-chart editor which is handy for architecture documents, infinite array of plugins and the interface is simple, clean and focused.
Notion has become this kitchen sink app where even editing a table is a convoluted mess of an experience.
No investor is going to give you specific feedback.
Your best bet is to go to onto Reddit, Discord etc, find the startup communities and ask for advice there. There are a lot of people who want to support other founders. Or even better go on Linkedin, find some prospective customers and ask them for advice. I've had about 10% of people reply back some with page long answers.
If you are willing to spend money there are plenty of services like Kintell, Intro.co which will allow you to book an hour with investors or successful founders. But there are plenty of free options that I would start with first.
Linux builds are in the AppImage format.
Which makes a lot more sense to me than deb/rpm when it's just a single executable.