JotForm — Lessons Learned

Ideas. Stories. From the founder of JotForm and other jotformers.

The 11 Must Have Tools for Product Managers

The 11 Must Have Tools for Product Managers

A “product manager” isn’t a role that fits neatly into a box with predetermined spheres and responsibilities, and the role often leans…

Jun 27

How Video Marketing Became a Vital Component of Our Product Launch

How Video Marketing Became a Vital Component of Our Product Launch

If you’ve only dabbled in video as part of your marketing plan, I’m here to tell you now’s the time to dive in headfirst.

Mar 14

What I Learned From One Year of Relentless HARO Pitching

What I Learned From One Year of Relentless HARO Pitching

If you work in PR, you likely have some familiarity with Help A Reporter Out (HARO), the popular service designed to match reporters with…

Feb 24

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How We Pulled Off a Successful Launch on Product Hunt

How We Pulled Off a Successful Launch on Product Hunt

Similar to Google or Facebook’s algorithm, Product Hunt’s algorithm is also guarded and not completely understood by users. There are many…

Feb 23

How to Use CSS Animations Like a Pro

How to Use CSS Animations Like a Pro

Create animation magic using keyframes, animation properties like timing, delay, play state, animation-count, iteration count, direction…

Feb 20

JotForm Announced As Winner of 2017 CRM Software Awards From FinancesOnline

JotForm Announced As Winner of 2017 CRM Software Awards From FinancesOnline

We are pleased to inform you that our review platform FinancesOnline has recently prepared a detailed JotForm review. Our experts didn’t…

Financesonline.com

Feb 16

How To Plan For a Successful Company Launch Party

How To Plan For a Successful Company Launch Party

During lunch one day, just a few hours before the start of our company’s launch party celebrating the release of JotForm 4.0, our chief…

Feb 8

Build forms anywhere, anytime with Jotform

Build forms anywhere, anytime with Jotform

Feb 2

5 Reasons Why JotForm Widgets are Extremely Popular With Users

5 Reasons Why JotForm Widgets are Extremely Popular With Users

The generic description of a widget is an application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access…

Kenneth Palaganas

Feb 1

Our Icon Workflow

Our Icon Workflow

The story of how we arrived at our workflow for icons with React and SVG Symbols over Icon Fonts.

Feb 1

Eight Things To Know When Launching a New Product

At some point during their career, marketing professionals will have the opportunity to launch a new product or service. It’s an exciting…

Feb 1

Offline-First Web Application Using Redux and PouchDB

Offline-First Web Application Using Redux and PouchDB

How to build an offline-first web application in five steps.

Jan 30

7 Reasons why you should use React

7 Reasons why you should use React

We evaluated all front-end frameworks before working on a major new version of our product, JotForm 4.0. After a series of Hack Weeks to…

Jan 26

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Redesigned Our Software

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Redesigned Our Software

How hack weeks, usability tests, beta launches and angry feedbacks helped us in our 1.5 year journey to build a perfect product.

Jan 25

How to Become a Good Debugger

How to Become a Good Debugger

Don’t. Learn to use a debugger instead. Here is how.

Jan 24

How to Create an Android App Using React Native

How to Create an Android App Using React Native

How I created a JotForm Submission Counter for Android using React Native

Kenneth Palaganas

Dec 20, 2016

How We Launched a New Homepage

How We Launched a New Homepage

Going on 11 years, online forms software JotForm has had a certain mentality that has been ingrained in the culture: make the product easy…

Dec 19, 2016

5 SEO Strategies That You Should Know For 2017

5 SEO Strategies That You Should Know For 2017

The new year is the time where our friends, family, and even ourselves begin setting life goals such as buying a new car, completing three…

Dec 9, 2016

The Biggest Marketing Challenge We Face

The Biggest Marketing Challenge We Face

In 2006, JotForm was founded as an engineering-driven company. As the first WYSIWYG form builder, JotForm lucked out in a major way with…

Nov 29, 2016

Lessons Learned Earning a Master’s Degree While Working Full-time

Lessons Learned Earning a Master’s Degree While Working Full-time

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys a limited social life and looking at a computer screen more than 14 hours a day, I’ve got just the…

Nov 17, 2016

Business Lessons I Learned from My Personal Trainer

Pain is required for growth. Impossible is possible with consistent hard work. Your internal talk can make or break you. Split hard things…

Oct 25, 2016

The Tools We Use Everyday on the JotForm Marketing Team

The Tools We Use Everyday on the JotForm Marketing Team

Marketing means so many different things depending on the type of marketing, the team, the product, the users, and the company. I’m always…

Aug 22, 2016

Finding my career path through my internship

Finding my career path through my internship

Whoever decided at age 18 we should know what we want to do for the rest of our lives? I think most of us at that age are still trying to…

Apr 7, 2016

How we gave our SaaS product a personality

How we gave our SaaS product a personality

The most important step for a SaaS company is to build the product. But just because you built it doesn’t mean they’ll come.

Apr 6, 2016

The Life of a JotForm Intern

The Life of a JotForm Intern

Internships are hit or miss. Some are the kind that challenge you to become the best version of yourself while others are so dull and full…

Mar 1, 2016

How to Improve Company Culture with Online Forms

How to Improve Company Culture with Online Forms

Company culture is no longer a “nice to have,” it is a must have. The modern workforce is evolving quickly, and companies that don’t adapt…

Feb 17, 2016

Lazy Marketers: Here are your new tools

Lazy Marketers: Here are your new tools

I know you’re too lazy to spend all day reading this, and I don’t blame you. But what if I told you that spending just a few minutes…

Feb 10, 2016

How to Create a Company Video

How to Create a Company Video

Who Knew that 3 Months of Work Would Go into Creating 93 Seconds of Screen Time?

Jan 14, 2016

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