Using jj has been delightful as I wrangle our backend pieces, front-end experiments, and repository migrations. I use it everywhere now.

I like "Where Teams Think." It emphasizes that, if the goal of Teamlanes is to BE the place where teams think, then it needs to provide the conditions in which good thinking is made possible. And that's what I've been building: a clean, reliable, fast, and extendable collaboration primitives system.

I've replied to all our concerned beta testers and I will also post a reassurance here publicly: Teamlanes will never file for an IPO, nor will Teamlanes ever be sold. This collaboration tool, like all my other projects, is a personal extension of myself, expressed as fine computer instructions. -JL

More coming in 2026!

The teams that enjoyed real-time sync had far less stickiness with the product than teams who expressed overwhelm with existing real-time systems. It might make sense to call a non real-time collab system "slower" but overall velocity didn't seem impacted. It's not "slower", it's "more intentional."

We set out to focus on real-time messaging, but all the quantitative and qualitative data shows that a different model is more appropriate for most settings. Where we maximized measures for Utility, Delight, and Sense of Belonging, we ended up on a forum-style system with *optional* real-time sync.

I get it: forums suck, but messaging platforms suck more for this type of thing. Trust me, having tried to organize information in forums, wikis, email lists, emails, discords, slacks, and everything you can possibly imagine…

It all sucks. But searchability and linking *has* to be the foundation

Teamlanes isn't going to be an enterprise app that's acquired for huge sums of money. I want something *else* to get me through this semi-charmed kind of life.

I want a tool that values human-to-human communication as much as I do—and my business thesis is that I'm not alone: