Matt Jared

👋🏻 Sales Leader & Developer based in Austin, Texas USA.

About me: I'm a marketer turned self-taught developer turned sales engineer turned sales leader. I’ve worked at and alongside startups and scale-ups including Cratejoy, Techstars, Atlassian, and now Vercel, where I lead sales and field engineering efforts to help teams ship faster websites with happier teams. I’m a builder at heart. On the code side that means Next.js, React, Postgres, and Supabase. More broadly, it means building products, teams, projects, and companies and sharing what I learn along the way.

What I'm focused on: I'm deeply interested in the intersection of engineering, business, and go-to-market. Especially sales, positioning, and distribution when technical credibility is what creates trust. This site is my attempt to share everything I know. I'm available on a project basis to help startups bring products to market, improve how they sell, or think through strategy. I post here and on LinkedIn. Long term goal: learn, build, and have fun.

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Blog Posts

The Changing Sports Landscape

January 25, 2026

Relearning Rails as a Next.js Developer

December 9, 2025

10 years later, the things that still stick with me

August 27, 2025

Personalizing every new tab experience

August 20, 2025

The Four Tendencies

March 26, 2025

Designs I like

July 26, 2024

On Walking

July 26, 2024

Principles

December 6, 2023

Public Vercel Ships

November 1, 2023

Top 28 Taylor Songs

August 14, 2023

How to make an interesting commit message

March 31, 2023

High Note

March 29, 2022

Front End Code Test

September 1, 2021

MegaMaker

January 24, 2016

MegaMaker

January 24, 2016

Following

May 27, 2014

Daily Practice

May 1, 2014

Purple Cow

February 23, 2014

Appearances

The WordPress Edge

A look at the future of Headless WordPress

How to scale your business with AI

A look at how AI can help scale your business

Ship 2025 Anatomy of a Fast Site

What does a FAST site look like? How do you make one?

Public Vercel Appearances

Everything I've done that's publicly available while at Vercel

Contact

Get in touch with me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Projects

Void

A chrome extension for taking notes and focus. Check it out

Emoji Text

A tiny site to write slack messages in slack emoji quickly. Site here and code here. This is inspired by the 🐐 https://cyanharlow.bitbucket.io/

Scorelord

Full stack app to track daily scores and post to Slack. GitHub

How much is 10mb?

A site pushing the limits of what can go into 10mb. Check it out

Random Hooper

An API to generate random NBA player names. Check it out

Server Side Football Site

Using SSR to display English Soccer team data. Check it out

Client Side Football Site

Using CSR to display English Soccer team data. Check it out

Football Clubs API

Supabase + Next.js with all Wikipedia data showing English soccer teams. GitHub

Next in line

Hype site for pre launch startups and drops. Check it out

Next.js AI Lite

Minimal AI chatbot start built with Next.js. GitHub

React Chicago Site

Rebuilt the React Chicago Meetup site with Next.js. GitHub

Annotated Hinkie Letter

Tracking how the process unfolded. GitHub

Book tracking site

Tracking books everyone likes. GitHub

Party Pad

Birthday party invitation site. GitHub

Close Tabs

Chrome extension for closing tabs that automatically open for zoom and notion and others. GitHub

Homepage GPT

v0 but made by me and not very good 😂. GitHub

Bingeboard

Greatest quotes from the Binge Mode podcast on a soundboard. GitHub

NBA Colors

Package with NBA colors. GitHub