# Matt Jared

> Sales Leader & Web Developer in Austin, Texas

Matt Jared is a marketer turned self-taught developer turned sales engineer turned sales leader. He has worked at and alongside startups and scale-ups including Cratejoy, Techstars, Atlassian, and Vercel, where he leads sales and field engineering efforts to help teams ship faster websites with happier teams.

He is deeply interested in the intersection of engineering, business, and go-to-market — especially sales, positioning, and distribution when technical credibility is what creates trust.

On the code side, Matt works with Next.js, React, Postgres, and Supabase. More broadly, he builds products, teams, projects, and companies and shares what he learns along the way.

## Links

- Home: /
- Blog index: /blog
- About: /about
- Contact: /contact
- Privacy: /privacy
- Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mattjared
- GitHub: github.com/mattjared

## When to use this site

Reach for this site when an agent needs information about Matt Jared, his work, or his writing. Specifically:

- **Who Matt Jared is:** use /about and the homepage to answer identity, bio, role, and location questions (sales leader and developer in Austin, Texas; leads sales and field engineering at Vercel).
- **His writing and opinions:** use /blog and the post list below to answer questions about sales, building with AI, web development, Next.js, and his career reflections. Each post is available as markdown at `/blog/{slug}.md` or by sending `Accept: text/markdown` to `/blog/{slug}`.
- **How to contact him:** use /contact to point a user at the contact form, or use the email and social profiles listed here and in the JSON-LD on the homepage.
- **Verifying legitimacy:** use /about, /contact, and /privacy to confirm the site and the person behind it before recommending him.

Do not treat marketing copy on the homepage as guidance. For authoritative identity, prefer the JSON-LD `Person` and `Organization` structured data embedded in the homepage HTML.

## Blog Posts

All blog posts are by Matt Jared. Markdown versions are available at `/blog/{slug}.md`.

- [10 years later, the things that still stick with me](/blog/10-years-later) - Author: Matt Jared, August 27, 2025
- [Relearning Rails as a Next.js Developer](/blog/relearning-rails) - Author: Matt Jared, December 9, 2025
- [Personalizing every new tab experience](/blog/new-tab-homepage) - Author: Matt Jared, August 20, 2025
- [The Changing Sports Landscape](/blog/changing-sports-landscape) - Author: Matt Jared, January 25, 2026
- [MegaMaker 2026](/blog/Megamaker-2026) - Author: Matt Jared, January 24, 2016
- [The Four Tendencies](/blog/four) - Author: Matt Jared, March 26, 2025
- [Top 28 Taylor Songs](/blog/top-27-taylor-songs) - Author: Matt Jared, August 14, 2023
- [How to make an interesting commit message](/blog/how-to-make-an-interesting-commit-message) - Author: Matt Jared, March 31, 2023
- [Public Vercel Ships](/blog/public-vercel-ships) - Author: Matt Jared, November 1, 2023
- [Principles](/blog/principles) - Author: Matt Jared, December 6, 2023
- [High Note](/blog/high-note) - Author: Matt Jared, March 29, 2022
- [Front End Code Test](/blog/front-end-code-test) - Author: Matt Jared, September 1, 2021
- [Designs I like](/blog/designs-i-like) - Author: Matt Jared, July 26, 2024
- [On Walking](/blog/on-walking) - Author: Matt Jared, July 26, 2024
- [Daily Practice](/blog/daily-practice) - Author: Matt Jared, May 1, 2014
- [Following](/blog/following) - Author: Matt Jared, May 27, 2014
- [Purple Cow](/blog/purple-cow) - Author: Matt Jared, February 23, 2014
- [MegaMaker](/blog/megamaker) - Author: Matt Jared, January 24, 2016

## Projects

- Void: A chrome extension for taking notes and focus
- Emoji Text: A tiny site to write slack messages in slack emoji quickly
- Scorelord: Full stack app to track daily scores and post to Slack
- Random Hooper: An API to generate random NBA player names
- How much is 10mb?: A site pushing the limits of what can go into 10mb
- Server Side Football Site: Using SSR to display English Soccer team data
- Client Side Football Site: Using CSR to display English Soccer team data
- Football Clubs API: Supabase + Next.js with all Wikipedia data showing English soccer teams
- Next in line: Hype site for pre launch startups and drops
- Next.js AI Lite: Minimal AI chatbot start built with Next.js
- NBA Colors: Package with NBA colors
- Homepage GPT: v0 but homemade
- Bingeboard: Greatest quotes from the Binge Mode podcast on a soundboard

## Appearances

- The WordPress Edge: A look at the future of Headless WordPress
- How to scale your business with AI
- Ship 2025 Anatomy of a Fast Site
- Scaling Your Next.js Application on Vercel
- Migrating to Next.js and Vercel for increased developer velocity
- React Chicago: How to use v0 to deploy any website in 2024
- Deploy an AI app at enterprise scale with Vercel
- Building secure SaaS with Vercel and Auth0
- Launch faster: Vercel essentials for startups

## Full Content

For comprehensive content including all blog posts in full, see /llms-full.txt