Product Updates
Meet Jam for Azure
Launching today: Jam for the Microsoft ecosystem. You can now create developer-ready issues in Azure DevOps in 1 click.
Building Jam
Building Jam | Ep. 3 Community Is Just Making Internet Friends
This week on Building Jam, we share the story behind our approach to events and building community as a startup.
Building Jam
Building Jam | Ep. 2 The Eng Team is Growing
This week, the Head of Engineering at Jam talks about the challenges of scaling and hiring in our startup.
Product Updates
Launching today: Create GitLab issues 20x faster!
One of your most requested integrations is launching today! Now you can create GitLab issues in 2 clicks with all the info devs need to debug.
Building Jam
Building Jam | Ep. 1 Live from Bogotá
We’re trying something new: hitting record on an unfiltered conversation about building our startup each week. No fluff, just real decisions, moments and challenges.
Why are we doing this? Because you’re builders too, and we love getting to meet you and swapping product tips.
We discuss:
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Engineering
Navigating backwards compatibility in GraphQL
GraphQL strategies to help you manage interactions between evolving systems more effectively.
All the AI demos from Jam + Mercury + Product Hunt AI Night
Jam, Product Hunt, and Mercury hosted SF builders for AI demos. Watch: marketing campaigns, videos of famous actors & more— all made by AI.
Engineering
Time traveling debuggers w/ Adam Chalmers (Zoo.dev)
Discover Zoo's breakthrough in CAD: time traveling debuggers and custom KCL. Talk by Adam Chalmers, engineer at Zoo.dev.
Engineering
Navigating the complexities of local development: Our journey to Tilt at Jam
Read about our journey to improve local development ergonomics and how we arrived at Tilt.
AI demos: Anthropic, Uizard & Superhuman
AI Night hosted by Jam at GitHub HQ. Demos ready for you to watch!
Last month, Jam hosted 200 builders at GitHub HQ in SF - for a night of AI demos. Huge shout out to the folks at GitHub for having us; and to the builders who shared what
Jam raises $8.9M Series A led by GGV Capital U.S.
Jam has raised $8.9M Series A, led by GGV Capital U.S., with participation from Figma Ventures and some of the world’s most prominent leaders in software development, including the founders of Vercel and Mixpanel.
We’re excited to announce that Jam has raised $8.9M Series A,
Engineering
Building a network stack for our browser extension
This probably sounds a bit crazy. Or, you may have forgotten what a network stack is.
But before you dismiss the concept of a layered protocol stack inside of a browser extension as ravings by a madman, or a concept too convoluted to bother understanding, let me provide some context.
Building Jam
How we use Notion for marketing planning + templates
Four months ago, Jam hired marketing for the first time! We've learned a lot along the way, including how to use Notion more effectively as a lean, fast-moving startup.
I discovered Notion a couple of years ago and I've been a fan ever since (even more
Hosting eng meetups? We’ll cover the pizza!
Announcing Jam.Pizza: an easy way to apply to get a sponsorship to support your next meetup, with love from Jam.dev.
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We’re launching a program to support more product and engineering meetups around the world!
Last year, we started hosting events to get
Engineering
How to preview deployments with Kubernetes
Sometimes replicating your full stack environment locally is pretty hard. Orchestrating lots of microservices in a development environment and sharing demos can be tricky.
Making incremental changes and shipping fast is ideal. This is our default workflow for the vast majority of development but for some cases where we want
Building Jam
10 lessons I learned about growing a startup in 2023
Getting users to adopt a new product is hard.
For us, it took 7 failed launches, and then the 8th version of our product - Jam, a browser extension for creating bug reports with automatic dev logs, worked! In 2023, Jam grew 10x and crossed 1M Jams created.
I learned
Founders
I almost started the wrong company
And with luck, I didn’t. Here are the 5 questions to ask yourself before you start your company.
Before I started a company, all I knew was that I wanted to start a company. And, who I wanted to start it with (meet my awesome co-founder, Irtefa). So, my
Customer Stories
How BuildShip increased engineering support speed 2X with Jam
If you could make it happen without engineering power - what would your dream tech stack look like?
Everyone is innovating and experimenting to bring their ideas to life with AI. As markets get tougher with increased competition - the teams who ship fast have the advantage. What determines speed
Building Jam
Announcing: Jam has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance
If you’ve been a Jam customer, you know privacy and security are part of our ethos — with guardrails baked into every facet of product development at Jam. Today, we’ve officially achieved enterprise-grade privacy and security standards for every software team who wants to Jam!
In just under 18
Customer Stories
How Jam helps Cofactr save 1 hour of engineering time per bug
Imagine you’re building a satellite. You need to know, without a doubt, that all the circuit boards will be completed on schedule because you’ve booked a launch date - and there’s no wiggle room when it comes to rockets.
These are the high stakes Cofactr customers trust
50,000 people who Jam 💜
Over the weekend, we crossed 50,000 people using Jam! 🤯
Every Jam user is someone like you, working hard to move the world forward through software. The less time you spend fixing, the faster you ship, and the sooner your customers benefit from your work. We’re so honored to
Product Updates
Introducing: GraphQL Debug Tools
GraphQL is extremely popular but notoriously time consuming to debug:
1. While traditional APIs use HTTP status codes to help you filter which requests returned an error, every GraphQL request returns the same 200 “OK”, so developers have to look through every single request to find if one has errors.
Product Updates
Launching today: Copy as cURL!
Now you can replay network requests from Jam tickets on you local machine in 1 click.
Customer Stories
How Pictory moves fast and keeps up with the ever-evolving Artificial Intelligence space
Pictory is one of the fastest-growing startups in the artificial intelligence space. They use AI to convert long-form content into hundreds of short-form multimedia content pieces. By using Pictory’s video creation engine, marketers can generate more leads and boost sales fast.
The Problem
Bug reporting was chaotic and slowed
Product Updates
NEW! Jam.Metadata – help devs debug faster with user ID + more in every ticket!
What details do engineers always ask you to include in bug reports? User ID? Team ID?
Now, Jam can automatically include those details. Engineers never have to look them up manually again!
Engineers just add one line of code:
Then every bug report auto-includes all the info they need, even