Jam blog

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

How We Built Video Annotations w/ tldraw

Jam engineers: Max, Aidan, and Rui get into the technical details of implementing the tldraw library.
1 min read
 
Building Jam

Getting Ready to Launch New Blur Tool! (Figma Tour)

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.
1 min read
 
Building Jam

9 lessons we learned building Jam in 2024

5 million Jams created by 170k of you 💜 what a year!
2 min read
 
Building Jam

Jamboree: 48hrs to build whatever we wanted!

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

Behind the Scenes: Jam's New Product Onboarding!

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.
1 min read
 
Customer Stories

How Flowcode delivers quality to 65 million people, saving 1000+ debugging hours w/ Jam

“Some of the biggest brands in the world are using Flowcode. We need to make sure the product is as smooth and easy to use as possible. Jam helps us do that faster.”
4 min read
 
Bug reporting guides

How to Write a Bug Report: Feedback Tips, Report Templates & Software Testing

Learn how to write a bug report that developers love with this detailed guide, including templates and tools for faster resolution.
15 min read
 
Engineering

4 SF Startups Reimagine DevTools w/ AI

Highlights from AI DevTools Night with Jam, Cloudflare & Sourcegraph.
1 min read
 
Engineering

How We Rebuilt Our Extension for Manifest V3

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.
1 min read
 
Building Jam

The 13 AI tools we use to build our startup

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.
1 min read
 
Engineering

AI demos from Dark Mode w/ Microsoft, GitHub, Flox & Jam

Jam, Flox, Microsoft for Startups & GitHub for Startups hosted 100+ technical founders in SF for AI demos. Here are the live demo recordings.
2 min read
 
Building Jam

Jam's New Designer Roasts Dashboard UX (Figma Tour!)

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

6 new features for even faster bug repros! ⚡️

Battery level, incognito status + more, now auto-included for devs in every Jam.
2 min read
 
Building Jam

Behind the scenes - our biggest launch!

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!
1 min read
 
Building Jam

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

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

How Jam helps Ramp save 100+ hours of design time with faster bug reporting

“Now, nothing is too small to fix, and that makes a huge difference in the overall quality of our product.” - Diego Zaks, VP of Design at Ramp
3 min read
 
Building Jam

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

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

Launching today! Debug customer issues 20x faster ⚡️

Our biggest launch yet — Jam for Customer Support
1 min read
 
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.
1 min read
 
Building Jam

Launching Dev Starter Pack - Live from PodRocket!

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

Building Jam | Ep. 22 How Campsite Built a Design-Led Company

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.
1 min read
 
Product Updates

Launching today: 9 updates to create tickets faster!

Logging bugs just got snappier 🫰
2 min read
 
Building Jam

Building Jam | Ep. 21 How Warp Builds Product

Warp founder, Zach Lloyd, joins us on the Building Jam Podcast to talk about how they build product.
1 min read
 
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.
1 min read