joggapp.com · a calm workspace for software teams
You're context-switching, grooming a backlog that never shrinks, and waiting on the mythical cool-down sprint that never comes. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Who's ready for a Jogg?
The problem
Most software teams are spread across 4+ tools. Work lives in different places, nothing connects, and priority shifts happen where no one can see them. Worst of all, the unplanned work — bugs, incidents, interruptions — blends right into the planned work and bleeds it dry, with no tool to tell the two apart. Over time it compounds into the very chaos it was supposed to prevent:
"More tools don't fix this. They make it worse. Jogg does less, on purpose."
Why we built Jogg
Most teams carry more projects than they can finish, so effort gets spread thin across all of them at once. Everything inches forward, nothing crosses the line, and the half-done work piles up into a stall. Concentrate that same effort on one project until it's done, then start the next — and the returns compound.
"The fastest way to finish more is to start less."
So that's what we set out to build: a tool that helps a team concentrate — to stay on one thing until it's truly done, instead of spreading thin across everything at once.
Same investment, same three projects. Concentrated, the returns compound.
The toolkit
Jogg isn't a platform with a hundred settings. It's a handful of tools, each shaped by a single constraint — fixed columns, a fixed Brief, one team per person.
The limits aren't missing features. They're the point. When a tool has nowhere to hide complexity, your team has to confront it instead of papering over it. Here's the whole kit — then a closer look at each.
01
Goals
Every project, sequenced on one timeline
02
Work board
Four fixed columns, nowhere to hide
03
Triage
One gate for every interruption
04
Docs
Knowledge beside the work it came from
05
Reflection
Team health, read from your own board
Less surface area. Less to argue about. More that actually ships.
01
one timeline, five lifecycle stages
Every project your team has, cascading across Idea · Discovery · Ready · In progress · Archived. A project only earns a place in line once its checklist is complete — so the timeline shows real sequence, not wishful thinking. Group related work under a Goal and its bar rolls up automatically.
No graveyard
Everything lives on the timeline. There's no buried backlog that's really a place projects go to die.
02
4 fixed columns · no custom workflows
A kanban with Todo · In Progress · Review · Done — no swimlanes. Planned work and unplanned interruptions share the same columns, but every reactive card carries a flag and is counted on its own, so it can never quietly eat a project's capacity.
Constraint
Fixed columns, no custom workflows to argue about. You can't hide disorder behind a status nobody understands.
03
accept onto the board, or reject with a reason
Reactive work doesn't land on the board unannounced. Anyone can submit a request; the receiving team accepts it — straight onto Work as an unplanned card — or rejects it with a reason. One inbox, one decision each.
A controlled door
Interruptions still get in. They just can't sneak in — every one of them is a decision someone made on purpose.
04
markdown only
A simple wiki: pages attached to a project, one level deep. Knowledge lives next to the work that created it, not in a separate wiki nobody updates.
Proximity
Knowledge lives next to the work that created it — not in a separate wiki that slowly rots.
05
read from your own board
A plain-language read on team health — focus, load per person, coverage, queue depth, how much gets dropped at cleanup. Computed from your own board, not external tools. It assigns a tone: a steady team reads calm; an overloaded one reads hot. It doesn't tell you what to do — just shows you what's happening.
On demand
Health signals are there when you want them — not a live dashboard cluttering your view when you don't.
Philosophy
Each tool carries its own constraint. These are the ones that cut across all of them — the decisions Jogg makes so your team doesn't argue about process. When there's nowhere to hide complexity, you deal with it instead. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
Focus
One team per person
You belong to one team. If someone is spread across teams, that's visible — Jogg won't pretend it's fine.
Quiet
No chat
Jogg is not a communication tool, it's a clarity tool. Talk to your team however you already do; use Jogg to see what's actually happening.
Pace
Slow is smooth
Smooth is fast. Jogg won't ask you to sprint — it helps you settle into a pace you can actually keep.
Pricing
25 people on the team
$99/mo
Spin up a team and your first project in under a minute. Jogg won't ask you to go faster. It just stops lying to you about what fast looks like.
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