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👀 how Jam’s engineers took over the network debugger

The network debugger is the heart of Jam’s dev tools. And today we’re jumping out of our seats excited to launch a completely revamped network debugger for the thousands of you who debug in Jam every day! It’s designed to be sleeker, faster, and the network timeline

One easy link to help your team report bugs better to engineers 🎉

After so many of you asked (thank you for the feedback! 🙏)... …We just shipped an easy link you can paste into Slack (or anywhere) to get your whole team on Jam ⚡ Because engineers need consistent + detailed bug reports to move fast and squash bugs, and the simplest way to do

Product Updates

Dev tool sprint season is here, see what we’re shipping 🚀

The number one reason we hear how people found out about Jam is that an engineer they work with shared Jam with them. That is really meaningful to us, because we started Jam to bridge the divide between engineers and their broader teams, to help companies work better together to

Product Updates

💥 New improvements launched to Jam for Slack!

It just got a lot more productive to share Jams with your teammates on Slack. Anytime you capture a bug and drop a Jam link into a Slack channel… Your teammates will now see a detailed expanded preview (Voila!) 🎉 And - you can now watch both videos and instant replays

Product Updates

Launching today: Jam for Incognito – be 20x faster at reporting bugs in incognito!

We just launched Jam for Incognito – a 20x faster way to report bugs in incognito that includes all the diagnostics engineers need to troubleshoot and fix bugs. Now, when you log bugs in incognito, you’ll be able to: * 🐛 Capture an instant replay of a bug (no repro necessary!) * 📹 Record

Product Updates

Introducing JamGPT – your AI debugging assistant

Today, we're excited to announce JamGPT, a new AI debugging assistant that helps you fix bugs faster. 0:00 /0:39 1× While most things in product development have changed 100x since the 1990’s, how we report bugs has not. So we started a company to change

Product Updates

Introducing Jam Embeds: help your team debug faster ⚡️

Meet Jam Embeds – perfectly embed Jams into Notion and Slack! Here’s how it works: Drop a Jam into your Notion bug tracking board: Or send a Jam to Slack: And you get a perfect embed complete with all the debugging info devs need, like console & network errors. Faster

Founders

7 tips I wish I had known about finding product-market fit

Finding product-market fit can be one of the most challenging and confusing parts of being an early-stage founder. While some rare startups hit product-market fit right out of the gate, it often takes companies multiple years. I’ve asked multiple entrepreneurs this week how long it took to find product/

Bug reporting hasn't changed since the 1990's

As we are nearing a major milestone of 15,000 users, I wanted to thank you all and share a little more about our journey. It's 2023, and most teams still collaborate on bug fixes the way they did in the 90's. Have you ever experienced

The bug reporting process: an outdated remnant of the 1990s

It's astonishing how little the world of bug reporting has changed since the 1990’s. Despite all the technological advancements we've made in the rest of software development, the way we handle bugs has stayed the same. Does this scenario sound familiar to you? An engineer

4 trends shaping software quality this year

2023 – what a year for those who build software! First, a financing bubble made it so every software team needed to ship better software faster than ever. Then, a massive downturn made those same teams need to do more with fewer resources. At Jam, we see an inside view on

4 software quality trends to watch in 2023

The tech industry is navigating unprecedented times: a record VC funding bubble caused a hyper-competitive market, followed by a dramatic downturn with mass layoffs. The result is that companies are under pressure to deliver high-quality software faster than ever before, all with fewer resources and people. At the same time,

Product Updates

Introducing Jam for Teams: help everyone report bugs better!

We’re so excited to announce Jam for Teams – now in beta! With Jam for Teams, you get a shared workspace to bug bash, collaborate and troubleshoot, plus extra security features and access controls. With everyone on your team jamming, you can ensure engineers always have the details they need

Product Management

9 best productivity tools for product managers

Productivity is crucial for product managers, who are responsible for wearing many hats (a.k.a are very busy!). We surveyed product managers at some of the top companies in the industry, including Google, Microsoft, and Vercel, to find out their favorite tools for staying organized and on track. Here

Interviews

A Q&A with Jonathan Ross, Israel's Head of QA at Just Eat Takeaway: from kibbutz farmer to QA in the metaverse

This week we talked to Jonathan Ross, Head of QA at Just Eat Takeaway. His path to QA is wild: from Kibbutz farmer, to leading QA in the metaverse, to now running a QA team at Just Eat Takeaway, the leading global online food delivery marketplace. So, what’s it

Getting Started

Step by step guide: how to use Jam for ClickUp

Welcome! In this guide we will help you get started logging bugs to ClickUp blazingly fast using the Jam for ClickUp browser extension. What does Jam for ClickUp do? Integrate ClickUp with Jam, a top rated chrome extension for developers, to be able to log bugs as ClickUp tasks extremely

Product Updates

Introducing Jam for ClickUp – log bugs 20x faster!

Introducing Jam for ClickUp – an ultra-fast way to log bugs in ClickUp! Now you can create perfectly filled out ClickUp tasks in 2 clicks. Every task automatically includes all the developer details to help engineers fix bugs faster. Here are the engineering goodies Jam auto-includes in every ClickUp task: * ✅ Console

Developer Productivity

How to move fast and not break things as a remote company

The Facebook-era “move fast and break things” startup motto no longer applies in today’s hyper-competitive environment. This is especially true for SaaS startups like Jam, where customers trust and rely on their products to complete their work. If you’ve met anyone on the Jam team, you know we

Founders

Bugs vs. product-market fit: why even startups need to build high quality products

When you're in the earliest stages of your startup trying to find product-market fit, the advice everyone gives you is to ship fast and ship messy, because you'll know you have product-market fit when users are willing to jump through hoops and use your product even

Product Updates

Just launched: report bugs to GitHub in seconds!

We just launched Jam for GitHub on ProductHunt! It’s the fastest way to log bugs to GitHub issues. Every issue auto-includes console & network logs, so devs love it too. If you have 30 seconds, we would love your help with an upvote! ❤️ Give a ❤️ on ProductHunt! Now you

Interviews

A Q&A with Kirk Fernandes, founder of Merit, on must-have productivity tools, habits and workflows as a startup CEO

Each week we talk to people we admire to learn about how they work: their processes, tools they use, and what drives them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. So you might get inspired and learn something

Developer Productivity

5 developer productivity tools we love

It's really important on any team to use tools, processes and workflows that unblock developers and help boost their productivity. Luckily, there are some great tools out there who help solve pieces of the developer productivity puzzle. We're building one – Jam – saving developers hundreds of thousands

Interviews

A Q&A with Omar Morales on being the Founding Engineering Manager at Chessly

Each week we talk to people we admire to learn about how they work: their processes, the tools they use, and what drives them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. So you might get inspired and learn

QA

So, you’ve been asked for a HAR file. Here’s what to do.

Welcome to the easiest guide to sending a HAR file. Below are the steps for Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge and Firefox. Engineers often ask for HAR files to help them debug issues you’ve reported. It’s going to take you just a minute or two to do and it

Interviews

A Q&A with Nemo Blackburn on must-have tools, habits and workflows as the Founding Product Manager at Primitives

Each week we talk to people we admire to learn about how they work: their processes, tools they use, and what drives them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. So you might get inspired and learn something