Building Jam Jam.dev
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A podcast about what it’s really like to build Jam.dev, week by week. No fluff, just real conversations on upcoming features and startup moments. New episodes every Friday.
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Growing Design (Ep. 5)
What’s it like building Jam this week? We’re hiring a second designer and realizing it’s one of the hardest positions to fill.
This week we discuss:
(00:15) Why hiring a designer is harder than an engineer
(6:57) How we look for designers at Jam
(09:15) How our designers’ personalities have shaped the product
(16:15) Working with sr. designers (tip: they don’t need your Canva file)
(21:41) Talking to new audiences about your product
(28:44) Google docs is Totino’s Pizza rolls & Notion is a calzone
(30:30) Answering “What’s your favorite product?” in a PM interview
(33:30) Reacting to a mind-blowing website (https://amie.so/)
(34:48) What bell-bottom jeans say about your startup
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New episodes drop every Friday at 10AM ET. See you there! -
Just The Marketers (Ep. 4)
What are the best marketing tactics for growing startups? We don’t really know yet, but we’re having a lot of fun figuring it out. This week, Ian and Ivanha talk about taking Jam marketing from 0 to 1.
(00:36) The owl video experiment & "Content-Market Fit"(05:34) Getting comfortable with a blank canvas(08:49) Deciding the tone and messaging of feature launches(11:47) Sizzle reels & Building Things™(16:16) Challenges of the week
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New episodes drop every Friday at 10AM ET. See you there! -
Community Is Just Making Internet Friends (Ep. 3)
Getting builders together has become a core part of what we do at Jam- with events for our community now happening 3-4 times a month. The truth is it hasn’t always been clear we should do this, especially as a remote team with users all over the world (150+ countries 🤯). This week, we share the story behind our approach to events and building community as a startup.
(1:14) Why did we start hosting events at Jam?
(4:45) Our first in-person user meetup
(7:42) The nerves behind hosting our first event
(10:07) How to predict your event’s attendance rate
(12:55) Our biggest challenge with hosting events today
(15:10) The story behind our first AI demo night
(16:45) How we find demos for Jam events
(18:24) How to host your first event
(22:00) Doing community marketing without a community forum
(23:00) Why building Slack/Discord communities is difficult for saas products
(24:45) Hot take- Don’t oversell your product to your community
(27:55) What is the Jam community right now?
(29:10) Spicy topic- Measuring event ROI
(35:46) Our challenges this week -
The Eng Team Is Growing (Ep. 2)
What happens when you spend months looking for the perfect candidate… And then the engineering team grows by 50% all at once?
This week, the Head of Engineering at Jam talks about the challenges of scaling and hiring in our startup:
(00:26) Why hiring takes so long— 5 months iterating the process!
(09:30) What’s going to break: the stuff we know, and what we don’t
(11:01) Changing the format of decision-making now that there’s more people (and opinions)
(18:30) The different factors that go into choosing the right candidate
(20:36) What happens when the team goes from 15 people to 20
(22:40) Does anyone know the perfect designer:engineer ratio?
(26:57) More team challenges: unexpected hires and financial planning, balancing strategy with execution, and showing up for the team with a meeting-packed calendar. -
Live from Bogotá (Ep. 1)
We’re trying something new: hitting record on an unfiltered conversation about what it’s actually like to build Jam each week.
This week we discuss:(00:29) This week’s offsite and building in person(04:32) Bringing up difficult or confrontational topics with the team(07:18) Choosing what to focus on when there’s a lot going on(08:02) Finding the right format for team retros(10:11) Breaking the news that a beta product needs more iteration(11:51) Trusting your gut vs. data(12:29) Excitement and uncertainty about an upcoming launch(14:15) How to make hard-boiled eggs in Bogotá