Building Jam

Nov 01 2024 28 ep. 27 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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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

How Campsite Built a Design-Led Company w/ CEO Brian Lovin | Ep.22

Sep 20 2024 28 mins  
It’s a design episode! With Campsite! This week on Building Jam, Brian Lovin, CEO at Campsite, and Chad Pugh, Jam designer, join us to talk about what it means to build a design-led company — the path from designer to founder, designer personas, and the internal processes that make it possible to build beautiful software.We discuss:(00:28) Brian explains the differences b/w Des

How Warp Builds Product | Ep. 21

Sep 13 2024 32 mins  
This week on Building Jam, we get an inside look at what makes Warp’s product development unique. Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd shares how engineers are directly responsible for project outcomes (rather than PMs), the team’s thesis around building consumer-grade developer tools, and how Warp approaches the speed vs. quality tradeoff.We discuss:(00:52) Building consumer-grade devel

How Clerk Builds Product | Ep. 20

Sep 06 2024 32 mins  
Building our startup, we get to meet and learn from the experts behind incredible products. Now we’re sharing these behind-the scenes conversations on our podcast, so you can learn from our journey too. Today, Colin Sidoti, CEO at Clerk, joins us to talk about how they build product.We discuss:(00:29) The first thing we want to know: how is Clerk design so crisp and good?(04:24)

Team Lunch & Learn w/ Matt Wallaert (Microsoft, Frog) | Ep. 19

Aug 30 2024 53 mins  
We got to learn from behavioral science expert, Matt Wallaert! Over the past two decades, Matt has led behavioral science at Microsoft and Frog Design, and currently advises Fortune 500s on how to create products that help people make good changes. He joined us on Zoom for a lunch & learn - an incredible opportunity we’re excited to share with you all as this week’s episode