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Jam Wand — Change web copy without asking a dev
A magic wand for making changes on your website, starting with copy. Click on any text in your site, edit it, and submit the change to GitHub to be merged into the code. Shipping copy changes as easy as click, type, and click again. Move faster. Save dev time.
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Thanks Ben for hunting us! Hey PH community, we are so excited to launch Jam Wand - point, click, and change your website - starting with changing website copy.
Jam Wand is the tool Irtefa and I wished we had when we were product managers at Cloudflare. We used to spend too much engineering time changing copy. We felt bad asking engineers for yet another copy change, and engineers felt bad because checking out yet another copy-fixes branch is time consuming and boring. It was a lose-lose.
We wished changing copy on a website was as easy as changing copy in a Google Doc. That was the goal for building Jam Wand.
With Jam Wand, any non-technical member of the team - without dealing with code or git - can make copy changes to their live website. It opens up pull requests to the codebase, so all engineers have to do is review and merge, and the copy change is live.
We think collaborative teams where everyone can contribute what they do best -- where customer support can update in-product help text, marketing can update landing page copy, dev rel can update developer docs, sales can update CTA text, and so on, leads to better products - which makes teams happy, users happy, it is a win-win.
Can't wait to hear what you all think.
This is super slick. I love the idea of editing copy where it actually lives and having it end up in GitHub. That makes it easy to drop in to my existing workflow and get developer buy in. Plus, I know our whole team would be excited to eliminate all those product requests to change a few words!
Really solid product. A PM's dream to get things done, on time, and of high quality. @thedanigrant built something awesome
@thedanigrant @eisforinnovate Thank you so much Eric! So kind of you. All the credit is to the team -- and special kudos to @_cichocinski for this feature 🙌
This looks magic. As a non-technical content-oriented product person, this sounds incredibly helpful.
Thank you so much @sameulu !! And the 6 others on the team -- they are the real 🙌
Thanks so much, @alexandra_m_co_e! As a non-techie, I am definitely happy to be able to self-serve copy changes. I always feel terrible for asking for yet another copy fix!
Nice! The "yet another copy change" should be the heading title of your website :) In our team, we use @goabstract for design version control. It would be awesome if we could open a "PR" to do the copy changes in our designs as well.
Looks fantastic! Always thought this should exist, and was going to take a crack at it myself but no need -- this looks absolutely amazing. Well done, and excited to see the success as you launch and to give it a try!
This will save a lot of back & forth between the business team and the IT team. Definitely, gonna recommend it to my teammates.
This is incredible. I would have killed to have something like this when I was operating. Going back and forth with dev on copy changes was always so brutal!
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