Building Jam

Dec 06 2024 32 ep. 26 mins 1
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A podcast about what it’s really like to build Jam.dev, week by week. No fluff, just real conversations on upcoming features and startup moments. New episodes every Friday.

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Our Startup's New Onboarding Flow! w/ Designer & Dev

Dec 06 2024 18 mins  
This year we launched a new customer support product, 100,000+ people joined Jam, and big companies signed up entire teams! So, it was time to rethink how we welcome users to a new way of reporting & fixing bugs. Today, Jam designer, Martin, and developer, Petar, get into the details and challenges of building new onboarding flows to make it easy for anyone to start Jamming - n

4 SF Startups Reimagine Devtools w/ AI

Nov 22 2024 25 mins  
Today, we’re trying something a little different! This week we hosted an awesome group of engineers w/ Cloudflare and Sourcegraph in SF for tech talks about the future of engineering w/ AI. The talks were so good - we grabbed the highlights to discuss and share them with you all!Let’s get into it!(00:10) Why we love hosting dev events(01:24) Making AI work for large messy codeb

How We Rebuilt Our Extension for Manifest V3

Nov 15 2024 17 mins  
Every week we share the story behind building our startup. Today, Jam eng, Aidan shares how we handled migration to MV3! Dig into all the technical details with us, and the challenges of doing a complete refactor of our browser extension + rolling it out to 150k users.We discuss:(0:40) The biggest challenge of the MV3 refactor(4:03) How MV3 changed our product roadmap(4:50) Why get

Our Startup Loves These AI Tools

Nov 08 2024 14 mins  
We’re so excited about AI - not just the AI features we’re building for Jam (can’t wait to show you!) but all the great tooling that helps us move faster at our startup. So, today we’re sharing the 13 AI tools we actually use — almost every day — how we use them, and why we love them!Let’s get into it!(00:07) Gemini & OpenAI(01:02) GLIF(03:32) GitHub Copilot(04:33

New Product Designer Roasts Dashboard UX (Figma Tour!)

Nov 01 2024 20 mins  
The design team is growing! Jam’s new designer, Martin shipped a whole new UX in the Jam workspace — in his first week (🤯). So, today on Building Jam, Martin joins the podcast to share all the details and the Figma file behind the changes with you all. We discuss:(00:23) Jam preview cards before & after(02:01) How Martin arrived at the new design & why we got rid of

Behind the scenes - our biggest launch!

Oct 25 2024 21 mins  
Our biggest launch yet is a whole new product! Jam for Customer Support is the first extension-less version of Jam. We spent over 6 months building & testing it ourselves. Today we’re sharing what that was like with all of you! In this episode, the engineers, PM & designer behind Jam for Customer Support discuss the challenges & moments making this new Jam.(00:13) Eng

How Retool eng defines 'done, done & done' w/ Tamar Ben-Shachar

Oct 18 2024 43 mins  
We got to chat with Tamar Ben-Shachar! She's an engineering leader at Retool, and previously led eng teams at Stripe — so we wanted to know everything. Super excited to share this conversation with you all. We get into feature launches, eng hiring, and our favorite - Tamar's definition for product readiness: done, done & done.(0:26) What themes has Tamar noticed across except

Dev Community w/ Pauline Narvas (Vercel) | Ep. 25

Oct 11 2024 35 mins  
Every week we get to talk to product experts about our startup challenges. Now we're hitting record on those off-the-record conversations, so you can learn with us too! Today, Staff Community Manager at Vercel, Pauline Narvas, joins us to talk about how to connect w/ devs on the internet.(00:38) Pauline's advice on building community w/ a global user-base(6:18) Do we need a communi

How we're building AI features | Ep. 24

Oct 04 2024 20 mins  
We're getting ready to ship 3 new AI features! So, today, 2 engineers leading AI development at Jam, Tomasz and Oskar, join the podcast to give us an update on Jam AI. We're so excited for you all to use it. And to share how we're making it, how it's going, and the tools we're using. Hope you enjoy listening!We discuss:(00:13) The tools we're using to build Jam AI(02:56) Tomasz sha

Launching Dev Starter Pack - Live from PodRocket

Sep 27 2024 22 mins  
It’s launch day! Which means… this is not a normal episode! We partnered w/ Cloudflare, LogRocket, Sourcegraph + 6 more awesome devtools to make a 10-tool stack, free for devs to build their ideas. So for today’s episode, we joined some of our friends from Dev Starter Pack on PodRocket, to share the details and behind the scenes of the launch.(00:00) Intros: Beyang (Sourcegra