Building Jam

Today we’re sharing our first impressions of GitHub’s Copilot code review! Oskar and Tomasz are both senior devs on the Jam team, and share what we’ve found while building with it these past weeks. Let’s get into it! 0:00 Intro 1:46 A real example from our codebase 3:13 Oskar & Tomasz share why the feature is valuable for them 5:03 Why Copilot’s ability to catch every typo is actually a big de...

Today we’re diving deep into our first automated testing suite with Playwright! There’s 180k+ people Jamming in 75+ countries, which is so awesome! But it also brings up a variety of web compatibility edge cases that can be tricky to identify with manual QA testing. So to keep shipping fast, we’re making our automated testing more robust. Today, Jam Eng, Aidan, is sharing all the details with you...

In this episode, we’re sharing behind the scenes of how we use Figma at Jam! Our designer Martin gets into the details behind how we organize Figma files, handle developer handoffs, and build out our files over the course of the product development lifecycle. Ready to see our Figma? Let’s go! (00:00) Intro (00:38) Real questions from Twitter & Reddit about Figma organization (01:52) Making Fig...

We just launched AI that writes your bug reports and today, we’re sharing the story with the team that built it! We’ll get into why we use Smaller Language Models instead of the larger LLMs, moved to an opt-in user experience, and all the user feedback that shaped what the feature is today. Let's get into it!   (00:00) Intro (01:14) Why we changed the UX from opt-out to opt-in (02:35) How early ac...

We just launched AI that writes bug reports for you! It’s our biggest launch yet, and we’re really excited to show you all behind the scenes of designing AI. We spent 4 months iterating, testing feedback mechanisms and how to deal with AI latency, while making it still feel like Jam. So today, we’re sharing all of the UX that didn’t make the cut. Ready to see our design graveyard? Let’s go! (0:00)...

Today we’re showing you our new component library! Jam designer, Martin & developer Petar share how we implemented a design system w/ Radix UI. And walk through how it works from Figma to React by building a nav bar, live on the pod! Hope you enjoy (you can watch everything on YouTube!) 🍿 (1:10) Why we decided to implement a new component library (11:18) Why we chose Radix UI + demo of how we...

We built video annotations with tldraw! It’s a new feature we’re launching next week, and we’re really excited for all you Jamming to try it. So today, Jam engineers: Max, Aidan, and Rui get into the technical details of implementing the tldraw library - so you can draw stuff while recording your screen. Excited to show you what we built! (00:37) Why implementing annotations was so different than...

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 on Building Jam we’re showing you everything. Figma walkthrough, staging demo, and all the unexpected twists and turns of blurring what’s in your browser — as you’re recording! (1:08) A lil blur tool demo (2:26) Figuring out an extra setting w/o cluttering our extension (5:27) Sele...

Our startup is changing! This year we went from 11 to 20 people, launched a new product (+30 features!), and learned a lot along the way. So for this episode, all of us recorded our biggest lessons of the year. We’re excited to share them with you all, hope you enjoy! What we learned: (00:21) Irtefa, co-founder (01:29) Chris, designer (04:50) Cyrus, engineer (06:54) Tomasz, engineer (07:48) Aidan,...

We just had our first company hackathon! It was so much fun to get together & build stuff IRL! From AI agents to help you fix bugs & test fixes to silly buttons that break websites, we’re excited to show you what it was like. This episode is different than usual, tune in on YouTube to see it all. We hope you enjoy! Subscribe to Building Jam on YouTube , Spotify , and Apple Podcasts . New e...

This year we launched a new customer support product, 100,000+ people joined Jam, and big companies signed up entire teams! So, it was time to rethink how we welcome users to a new way of reporting & fixing bugs. Today, 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 - no matter how the...

Today, we’re trying something a little different! This week we hosted an awesome group of engineers w/ Cloudflare and Sourcegraph in SF for tech talks about the future of engineering w/ AI. The talks were so good - we grabbed the highlights to discuss and share them with you all! Let’s get into it! (00:10) Why we love hosting dev events (01:24) Making AI work for large messy codebases - Beyang Liu...

Every week we share the story behind building our startup. Today, Jam eng, Aidan shares how we handled migration to MV3! 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. We discuss: (0:40) The biggest challenge of the MV3 refactor (4:03) How MV3 changed our product roadmap (4:50) Why getting Jam’s i...

We’re so excited about AI - not just the AI features we’re building for Jam (can’t wait to show you!) but all the great tooling that helps us move faster at our startup. So, today we’re sharing the 13 AI tools we actually use — almost every day — how we use them, and why we love them! Let’s get into it! (00:07) Gemini & OpenAI (01:02) GLIF (03:32) GitHub Copilot (04:33) Promptfoo (05:20) Wonde...

The design team is growing! Jam’s new designer, Martin shipped a whole new UX in the Jam workspace — in his first week (🤯). So, today on Building Jam, Martin joins the podcast to share all the details and the Figma file behind the changes with you all.  We discuss: (00:23) Jam preview cards before & after (02:01) How Martin arrived at the new design & why we got rid of auto-play (06:22) F...

Our biggest launch yet is a whole new product! Jam for Customer Support is the first extension-less version of Jam. We spent over 6 months building & testing it ourselves. Today we’re sharing what that was like with all of you! In this episode, the engineers, PM & designer behind Jam for Customer Support discuss the challenges & moments making this new Jam. (00:13) Engineering challeng...

We got to chat with Tamar Ben-Shachar! She's an engineering leader at Retool, and previously led eng teams at Stripe — so we wanted to know everything. Super excited to share this conversation with you all. We get into feature launches, eng hiring, and our favorite - Tamar's definition for product readiness: done, done & done. (0:26) What themes has Tamar noticed across exceptional engineering...

Every week we get to talk to product experts about our startup challenges. Now we're hitting record on those off-the-record conversations, so you can learn with us too! Today, Staff Community Manager at Vercel, Pauline Narvas, joins us to talk about how to connect w/ devs on the internet. (00:38) Pauline's advice on building community w/ a global user-base (6:18) Do we need a community platform? H...

We're getting ready to ship 3 new AI features! So, today, 2 engineers leading AI development at Jam, Tomasz and Oskar, join the podcast to give us an update on Jam AI. We're so excited for you all to use it. And to share how we're making it, how it's going, and the tools we're using. Hope you enjoy listening! We discuss: (00:13) The tools we're using to build Jam AI (02:56) Tomasz shares the chall...

It’s launch day! Which means… this is not a normal episode! We partnered w/ Cloudflare, LogRocket, Sourcegraph + 6 more awesome devtools to make a 10-tool stack, free for devs to build their ideas. So for today’s episode, we joined some of our friends from Dev Starter Pack on PodRocket, to share the details and behind the scenes of the launch. (00:00) Intros: Beyang (Sourcegraph), Dani (Jam), Matt...

It’s a design episode! With Campsite! This week on Building Jam, Brian Lovin, CEO at Campsite, and Chad Pugh, Jam designer, join us to talk about what it means to build a design-led company — the path from designer to founder, designer personas, and the internal processes that make it possible to build beautiful software. We discuss: (00:28) Brian explains the differences b/w Designer and designer...

This week on Building Jam, we get an inside look at what makes Warp’s product development unique. Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd shares how engineers are directly responsible for project outcomes (rather than PMs), the team’s thesis around building consumer-grade developer tools, and how Warp approaches the speed vs. quality tradeoff. We discuss: (00:52) Building consumer-grade developer tools (03:14)...

Building our startup, we get to meet and learn from the experts behind incredible products. Now we’re sharing these behind-the scenes conversations on our podcast, so you can learn from our journey too. Today, Colin Sidoti, CEO at Clerk, joins us to talk about how they build product. We discuss: (00:29) The first thing we want to know: how is Clerk design so crisp and good? (04:24) Comparing produ...

We got to learn from behavioral science expert, Matt Wallaert! Over the past two decades, Matt has led behavioral science at Microsoft and Frog Design, and currently advises Fortune 500s on how to create products that help people make good changes. He joined us on Zoom for a lunch & learn - an incredible opportunity we’re excited to share with you all as this week’s episode.   We discuss:  (00...

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 look into what it has taken to build their product. In this episode, we discuss: (01:06) How does WorkOS determine what meets...