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How we use AI to animate real iOS product screens for feature launches.

We’re getting ready to release Jam’s newest feature, the blur tool! We can’t wait for you all to try it, so this week we’re showing you everything.

5 million Jams created by 170k of you 💜 what a year!

We're excited to share the details of our first company hackathon!

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.

We’re sharing the 13 AI tools we actually use to build Jam (almost every day!) how we use them, and why we love them.

Jam’s new designer, Martin shipped a whole new UX! Today, we're sharing all the details + the Figma file behind the changes.

We spent over 6 months building & testing Jam for Customer Support, the first extension-less version of our tool. Today we’re sharing what that was like with all of you!

We got to chat with Tamar Ben-Shachar! She's an engineering leader at Retool, and previously Stripe — so we wanted to know everything.

Staff Community Manager at Vercel, Pauline Narvas, joins us to talk about how to connect w/ devs on the internet.

Jam engineers share how AI development is going on the Building Jam podcast.

We partnered with Cloudflare, LogRocket, Sourcegraph + 6 more awesome devtools to make a 10-tool stack, free for devs to build their ideas.

Brian Lovin, CEO at Campsite, and Chad Pugh, Jam designer, join us on the podcast to talk about what it means to build a design-led company.

Warp founder, Zach Lloyd, joins the Building Jam Podcast to talk about how they build product.

Colin Sidoti, CEO at Clerk, joins us on the Building Jam Podcast to talk about how they build product.

We got to learn from behavioral science expert, Matt Wallaert - an incredible opportunity we’re excited to share with you all!

Season 2 of Building Jam is all about learning from builders we admire. When we used WorkOS to build Single Sign-On for the Jam Enterprise plan, we loved our developer experience so much that we wanted to learn more. This week, CEO Michael Grinich joins us to give an update.

This week we’re joined by Rui and Oskar, two Jam engineers leading our internal development of AI features. Oskar shares our latest demo with Chrome's built-in AI and what it means for anyone building in the browser.

In this episode:

0:00 Intro
0:25 What

Jam's newest engineers, Max & Aidan, share what it's really like to join the eng team.

Product Hunt is one of the biggest builder communities in the world, so we asked for advice on how to build Jam’s.

We’re bringing our dev community questions & challenges to Lizzie Siegle, an incredible dev advocate & community leader at Cloudflare.

This is not a normal episode. This week we’re sharing an honest internal conversation about how things are going with the podcast.

This week at Jam we’re defining the goals & priorities of our new growth team and feeling inspired by the future of AI.

This week at Jam, our users hit 3 million Jams created! We’re planning something special for No. 3M & thinking about the next 3 million, as we build out Jam’s first growth team.

This week at Jam, we’re at Config! Figma is one of our investors and gave us free tickets (thank you Figma!). We discuss community learnings from one of the world’s best product design conferences.

This week at Jam, we’re deep into building the next iteration of Jam AI. After Jam engineer Rui shared the latest demo at standup, we knew we had to bring him on the pod to discuss.

What’s it like building Jam this week? Our founders Dani & Irtefa are prepping for a board meeting by analyzing a ton of data to get a bird’s eye view of Jam.

What’s it like building Jam this week? We’re going after new tactics, new channels, doing more live onboardings— and figuring out how to do it all in a way that feels like Jam.

What’s it like building Jam this week? We’re shipping design updates, making decisions about a new product launching soon & discovering that intuition is a form of data.

What’s it like building Jam this week? We’re hiring a second designer and realizing it’s one of the hardest positions to fill.

On this episode of Building Jam, we talk about what it's like to be the first marketers at our startup and figure out everything from scratch.

This week on Building Jam, we share the story behind our approach to events and building community as a startup.

This week, the Head of Engineering at Jam talks about the challenges of scaling and hiring in our startup.

We’re trying something new: hitting record on an unfiltered conversation about building our startup each week. No fluff, just real decisions, moments and challenges.

Why are we doing this? Because you’re builders too, and we love getting to meet you and swapping product tips.

We discuss:

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Four months ago, Jam hired marketing for the first time! We've learned a lot along the way, including how to use Notion more effectively as a lean, fast-moving startup.

I discovered Notion a couple of years ago and I've been a fan ever since.

Getting users to adopt a new product is hard.

For us, it took 7 failed launches, and then the 8th version of our product - Jam, a browser extension for creating bug reports with automatic dev logs, worked! In 2023, Jam grew 10x and crossed 1M Jams created.

If you’ve been a Jam customer, you know privacy and security are part of our ethos — with guardrails baked into every facet of product development at Jam. Today, we’ve officially achieved enterprise-grade privacy and security standards for every software team who wants to Jam!

Customer feedback is a gift. What happens when this valuable feedback is lost in the noise? You lose an opportunity to improve your product and make your customers happy. At Jam, we are maniacal about customer satisfaction. Here’s how we do it:

* The first step is to make sure

When we needed to recruit our first hires at Jam, after we exhausted asking everyone we knew for recommendations, we weren’t sure where to go from there. Do we just post on LinkedIn? Do we work with a recruiting agency? Is TopTal or Hired the way to go?

Building a remote startup isn't easy. How do you build a fast-paced, collaborative culture when everyone is remote?

At Jam, we've learned a lot about how to build a remote startup over the past two years. Here are some of our favorite tips and tricks.