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News, updates, and learnings to help you build software faster — from the team building Jam.
 
Product Updates

Launching today! Debug customer issues 20x faster ⚡️

Our biggest launch yet — Jam for Customer Support
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 24 How we're building AI features

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

Free & Open-Source Developer Tools for Conversion & Formatting

Whether you're working with JSON, YAML, CSV, or Base64 encoding, these tools will save you time and streamline your workflow.
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Product Updates

Launching today: 9 updates to create tickets faster!

Logging bugs just got snappier 🫰
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 20 How Clerk Builds Product

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

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

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

Building Jam | Ep. 18 How WorkOS builds product with founder Michael Grinich

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 inside
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 17 An Internal Demo with Chrome’s Built-in AI

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 is
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Engineering

Just launched! The client-side stack we wish existed

Meet Jam's new collection of open-source & ad-free data conversion tools.
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Carlota Perez and the AI revolution

This is a talk I gave at Zoom HQ's AI night on August 13, 2024. You can check out the slides here, or sharing the talk below! I learned a lot of market prediction frameworks as a VC, this one is my favorite. It's also why
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 16 What it's Like Joining Jam Engineering

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

Building Jam | Ep. 15 Community Led Growth w/ Jason Levin (Product Hunt)

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

Building Jam | Ep. 14 Learning DevRel from Lizzie Siegle (Cloudflare)

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

Introducing Single Sign-On & Directory Sync

Simplify login and manage your Enterprise account with increased security.
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 13 We Recorded Our Retro

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

Building Jam | Ep. 12 Our Growth Team Charter

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

Building Jam | Ep. 11 Getting to 3 Million Bug Reports

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.
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Engineering

AI will 100x the number of engineers

In 10 years, I bet there will be 100x more engineers than now. Here's 5 big predictions on how AI will impact engineers.
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 10 Live from #Config2024

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.
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Product Updates

Just launched! Even more debug data auto-included with Jam + LogRocket

Fix bugs faster with everything devs need to debug in 1 easy link.
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 9 Developing Jam AI

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.
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Founders

The board deck template we wish we had as first-time founders

We're sharing Jam's board deck template. It has been instrumental in growing our startup, and I hope it helps other founders.
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 8 The Board Meeting

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.
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Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 7 Everything Feels Important

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.
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Famous bugs

The story of the world’s first software bug

You’ve probably heard the story about the moth in the logbook at Harvard. This post is about what actually happened.
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