10 tips for onboarding as a new product manager

Onboarding as a new product manager can be an overwhelming experience. You’re not only learning the ins and outs of a new company, but you're also responsible for managing a product and leading a team. You're usually coming in cold to a hot situation. It

 

Engineering

Building the ClickUp integration at Jam

At Jam, our mission is to help teams ship high-quality software, faster. We do this by making it easier to communicate about and fix bugs. Our tool makes sure all the information engineers need to debug a bug, like network requests, console logs, screenshots, videos, and device, OS, and browser

 

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

 

Engineering

Automating Chrome extension publishing with GitHub Actions

In the earlier days of Jam engineering, we did a few things that don’t scale. As one of those many things, we manually submitted this developer Chrome extension to the Chrome Web Store. This meant whenever we wanted to release newer versions of our extension, one of our engineers

 

Interviews

A Q&A with Alex Wolfe, program manager at Airtable, on must-have productivity tools, habits, and workflows

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

 

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 Kayleen Standridge, product manager at ClickUp, on must-have productivity tools, habits, and workflows

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

 

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

 

Tom Takigayama, Director of Product Design at Justworks on how you can manage high-functioning teams

In each episode of our podcast, we talk to amazing product builders to learn about how they work, their processes, the tools they use, and the things that inspire them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. In

 

Interviews

Philina Fan on her journey from a fashion designer to a digital product designer at Handshake

In each episode of our podcast, we talk to amazing product builders to learn about how they work, their processes, tools they use, and things that inspire them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. In this episode,

 

Interviews

Diego Zaks, design leader at Ramp on how building trust can make you a better designer

In each episode of our podcast, we talk to amazing product builders to learn about how they work, their processes, the tools they use, and the things that inspire them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. In

 

Product Management

How to find your product adoption indicator: a step-by-step guide to finding the number that makes your users stick

Every startup needs to know what makes a user stick. Figuring this out helped us make key decisions to grow our business. We’ve all heard about Facebook's "7 friends in 10 days" story. But how do you go about finding what makes your product stick?

 

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

Q&A with Tom Jodeit, Senior Product Manager at Procore on must-have tools and habits

Each week we talk to people within our network to learn about how they work, their processes, tools they use, and things that inspire 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

 

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

 

Interviews

Jeff Anders, Co-Founder of Ambrook, on how to go from designer to manager

In each episode of our podcast, we talk to amazing product builders to learn about how they work, their processes, tools they use, and things that inspire them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. In this episode,

 

Interviews

Q&A with Rishab Hegde, Product Lead at Rippling on must-have tools and workflows

Each week we talk to people within our network to learn about how they work, their processes, tools they use, and things that inspire 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

 

Interviews

Daniel Castro, design leader at Exabeam on how you can find mentors in design

Each episode of our podcast, we talk to amazing product builders to learn about how they work, their processes, tools they use, and things that inspire them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. In this episode, we

 

Founders

8 fundraising tips I learned as a VC to help you raise your seed round.

Raising VC is one of the most confusing parts of being a founder. Before co-founding Jam, I was really lucky to spend a few years as a VC at Union Square Ventures and watch hundreds of founders pitch. Of course there's no one good way to raise, but

 

QA

How to hire your first QA person at your startup

Building a bug-free product is important at any company, but at a startup especially, it can make all the difference. While there’s an old startup trope that your product should be so needed that people will use it even when it’s buggy, that advice does not seem to