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What's happening at Jackal Labs
Recorded: July 9, 2025 Duration: 0:20:12Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent town hall, the Jocklabs team shared exciting updates on the Respawn project, highlighting significant growth, strategic partnerships, and a focus on B2B solutions. With ongoing developments in backend integration and mobile support, the team is poised to enhance data backup solutions for high-revenue industries.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Oh, hello.
Everybody to the Wednesday Jackal Town Hall.
Look, the gang's all here.
Spantoby's here. How's it?
How's it going?
Spantoby.
Also, Sofa Ninja.
So, Sophan Ninja, how you doing?
How you doing?
Am I live?
Am I live?
I think you're live.
Asking questions to people that can't answer.
Great, dude.
Hey, they got emoji reactions.
They can hit the emotes on us.
Yeah, they can hit the emotes.
They can hit the emotes on us.
I just like knowing that there's real people out there in this AI kind of realm.
I don't know who's real on the internet anymore at all.
That is fair.
That is actually a fair take.
That is a fair take.
All right.
So, another week.
Another two weeks at Jocklabs.
Been pretty busy.
It's been two weeks.
Yeah, well, the last one, there was one that got borked halfway through because I was at
the conference trying to start it, and then Jayden started it, and then we were both on
the Jocklabs account, and then it exploded.
It's not my fault. I tried so hard to prevent that. I was on it.
Dude, you were on it too. Everyone was on it at the same time. It's too many hands on
the wheel on that day. But, outside of that, I think we should kind of get talking about kind of where we are in respond
from.
Marston,
if you kind of want to give the lowdown of all the things that kind of
happened this week.
And then I can,
I know Jaden's not here right now because he's actually currently in sales
meetings.
So, which is good,
which is where he should be as much as we love you guys that much.
It is important for him to do his job.
Yeah, I mean, it's been a very productive past two weeks.
It's kind of in an interesting spot right now.
It's something that kind of all software goes through.
But we have been building out this back end for respawn for a while now
not that long but like you know it feels like a long time when you're doing it this much um
and ian's been putting together all the like designs for the actual front end to go with that back end right this past
two weeks really but like really it's coming together nice like right about now is uh kind
of that merger of all of the kind of non-code designs that we have in our big Figma file finally like coming to life now that we
have all the infrastructure set up and uh actually getting the back end plugged into the front end
it is just a really nice spot to be so that's probably where we're going to be for a little
while just doing all of our integration work um One thing that is really nice
is we've kind of split
all of our concerns out.
So for people that don't know Respawn,
we kind of hook into existing Web2 systems,
whether that be SaaS applications,
whether that be like AWS buckets
and all that stuff.
And essentially when you want to go and make a backup of that,
we build that out and we build an integration
that hooks directly into that Web2 platform.
And the platform is really easy to like upgrade it.
We just throw a new source type in there
and that source type is whatever platform you're on.
But we're at a really good spot now where we've done a lot of work up front to make it so that
adding new sources is far easier than they could have been had we done it differently.
As well as all of the kind of like Jackal integration into this platform is really, really smooth because of just how
separated out we've made everything on the backend. And what I mean is like every single
section of this application is essentially its own program because we're really focused on microservice architecture for this particular application and all those source types,
where essentially, like, when you make a request
to back up your data,
it's bouncing around to a bunch of different machines.
So we have entire systems that their job
is just pulling data from, like, Google.
And then we have another machine.
Its entire job is moving that data onto the Jackal protocol.
So even if for whatever reason,
something happens with all of the Google machines
and Google stops playing nice with us for a minute,
any data that we already have that needs to be put on Jackal
will continue to be put on Jackal.
And if you need to be able to
pull data back and actually like download that data, it's okay if the Google system's all messed
up. If Google, you know, for whatever reason goes down, you'll have all that data over on our Jackal
workers and we can scale those up and scale those down as demand increases. So right now, probably, as I say, the last two weeks, it's been a really
big thing for us is just taking all of those pieces that we've individually built out,
and actually putting them together into like a consistent workflow. And obviously, there's
friction when we do stuff like that, right? A bunch of things that have never interacted before,
and you're making them interact. There's some updates that need done,
but we're really hitting our stride now for integrations.
And I really would love to get people testing it soon,
like early, early testers.
So if you know anybody that has like sas applications or uh does like
g suite backups or like does g suite at their their company and wants to chat about backups
like now's the time because we're kind of hitting that moment where things are finally coming
together for people who aren't literally jackal labs pressing buttons on the command line it's
it's a visual thing now which
is for the first time ever happening with respawn oh yeah um i can kind of talk about uh actually
how about you kind of talk about uh all the work that went into designing said front end it was
like probably the biggest chunk of information to to dish out today oh yeah i you know i like i like
to transcend realms between uh the marketing people and the uh back end gang for sure um but
what but what have i been doing uh writing like a thousand modals for the respawn app i swear to god
it's a thousand i don't think it's actually a thousand
but it's a shitload and uh you know when you're when you're dealing with your company's data you
know we have to have you know the correct number of friction points when you're you know deleting
things or removing things or canceling backups so i feel like I've just been, you know, making a lot of really dry,
boring, are you sure about that kind of things, which is super exciting. But I think the UI is
looking super awesome. As you guys know, we've kind of been doing like a node-based editor for
programming all of your backup policies. And that's been super fun to work on.
And I feel like the gang's pretty far along on it,
which I was kind of shocked by in full honesty.
It's always a treat to be designing things in Figma.
And then, you know, suddenly you're actually able
to like play with them in real life.
So hopefully we can show that off to everybody soon
and more of like a real life demo and get your guys thoughts on it.
But that's been super fun.
And now all of this work is starting to make its way into a like actual website for Respawn.
So I'm working on that right now, which is super exciting with Patrick.
that right now, which is super exciting with Patrick. And it has a pretty big facelift from
kind of the current state of the app and site that you guys can see right now on respawnit.com.
So I think things are going to change a lot probably in the next, I don't know. I'll probably
have something else to talk about the next time we do one of these town halls, uh, respond, we'll have kind of a whole new look and a vibe.
So we're getting that part, complete the site.
And then we're going to start to, uh,
then I have to start to craft a bunch of marketing assets,
a bunch of LinkedIn shit, um,
and start to roll out a little bit of like a campaign for that. So, um,
I think a lot of the work that we've
been done and kind of, you know, we've all had our heads down reinventing the world of backups.
I think a lot of that is about to pop out and shine soon. So it's really exciting to see it
all come to fruition. This is definitely the largest app that I think we've made since I have
been here, probably by far, right? I feel like've made since I have been here probably by far. Right.
I feel like designing it was a lot more intricate than vault or anything like
it's massive compared to vault or the base of post.
It is, it is by far, by far, by far the biggest thing.
Like I literally just went through and counted while you're talking and
modals alone, none of the actual pages, just modals. Um, there's 78 of them.
Yeah. Yeah. Disgusting. Disgusting.
This is also us trying to make the DMVP,
like trying to make the most like boiled down, like a, you know,
distilled version of this particular products.
These are all very like needed, very needed modals and whatnot.
They just add up.
It's been fun. It's been a fun ride.
I'm excited to start seeing it come to fruition.
I'm excited for the gang to
pop in there and try stuff out.
I've been uploading a shit ton of data
to my Jackal Labs Google
account just to
help with internal testing.
Patrick said I had to delete some of it.
I uploaded too much.
We're about to get a big Google bill.
We're still figuring that out right now.
You know, I want to make sure it all works out.
Throw some big files up for the boys.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, no, it's been really interesting and i'm happy that
we're finally out of state with the stability of the protocol mixed with the actual tooling
that we have so we can build something this day that is the thing that makes me the happiest that
we actually have all the tooling stable protocol everything in place so we can actually build
bigger things that solve bigger problems that's uh That's what makes me a happy boy.
Outside of that, I'll kind of give an update on sales development, business development,
all that huge stuff. So right now, actually, as we speak, Jaden's actually meeting with a lot of our prospective early customers, fingers crossed. So a lot of them
are in manufacturing, home building, construction. The reason why we're targeting them right now
is number one, they actually get hit majority of the time. It's kind of like these really
high revenue companies that don't have the technical know-how or the internal knowledge.
So the good thing is we're competing against nothing often for them.
Also the bad thing is we're competing against nothing and sometimes nothing is a tough competition.
But it seems like everything's going pretty well on that front with home builders, manufacturing, chemical companies, all these kind of guys.
The other thing is we're just kind of like working
through some government contracts actually as well. So we're getting those submitted and getting
all that good stuff in. And if those hit, we will be also in a really, really awesome spot,
which is also cool. Kind of different use cases for the Jocko protocol. And I think that we're
kind of on the right track for delivering something that can add a lot of value. And I think that we're kind of on the right track for delivering something that can add a lot of value,
and I think it is the right move to move to B2B
for the protocol specifically.
That's kind of where our head's at.
That's kind of everything that's kind of happened
in the last two weeks,
and if you guys have any questions,
feel free to come up and shoot,
but this might be a short one this week
so we can get back to work,
but anything else you guys really want to share?
It feels like obviously there's stuff,
but a lot of it's pretty boring.
Yeah, that's the big thing is a lot of the work
we've been doing on Respawn is very foundational work,
I guess, but side note about Res, uh, going back to kind of core
protocol stuff, talked about it, uh, last time, Paul, not a lot has changed because we're still
kind of in that testing period where, uh, we're building up that like simulation system for the
actual storage providers, um, which not only will help the protocol run,
but it also furthers our goals on Respawn
to make the storage provider stronger,
makes Respawn stronger, makes the protocol stronger.
So lots of good work's being done on that.
There's going to be a very, very minor update to the chain
that just makes testing things a little bit easier. It won't even be consensus breaking because it's very like minor update to the chain that just makes testing things
a little bit easier.
It won't even be consensus breaking
cause it's all around the tooling for the chain.
So that should be happening soon-ish.
If you want to play around with it,
it'll just let you like literally just upload raw files
to the protocol with one command line,
which isn't very exciting,
but it helps us test a lot for our storage provider monitoring system.
And we've basically hit the point where every part of the stack, storage providers, the chain,
like from Block Explorer stuff, are running in a big Docker system,
and we can run like 100 of them at the same time if we want
and just have crazy simulations on what the chain could do at any moment so that we can
better find bugs um just testing distributed system sucks just in case anybody was uh
wanting to get into that it's it's not a very fun spot to be but uh we're doing it
It's not a very fun spot to be, but we're doing it.
Yeah.
Got a lot of distributed systems.
Okay.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to come on up.
We're open book right now.
We're here.
We're hanging out.
Any crazy stuff?
I haven't been watching the news recently.
Any crazy news?
I heard apparently Trump tariffs are now bullish for the market and noticed that today.
Yeah, honestly, I've been not paying attention at all this week.
Yeah, it is pretty crazy. It doesn't seem like anyone's looking to chat today. If you
have anything else in the meantime,
feel free to shoot us in a message in the Discord or in the Telegram.
We'd like to be as active as we can,
but we also like to make sure that we can work.
So we'll get back to it as soon as possible in those wonderful channels.
I'm trying to think, is there anything else?
That's it, fellas.
That's about it.
Oh, we have a request.
Respawn.
We do have a request.
Sophaninja, you should be coming up.
There you are.
You're live.
Sophaninja, what up, baby?
Hey.
You guys have been doing some good work here.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, absolutely.
I just wanted to give a quick heads up that this Sunday on July 13th, 2 p.m. Central, that Scott and Bella with Siggy are going to be on the
Super Ledger podcast with Chris from Corium.
Awesome.
No, that's really good to hear uh let us know uh send any social stuff our way so we can uh reshare it and help you guys on the
marketing front on that i'm i i downloaded cydia i think it was two days ago and i've been playing
around with it the user experience is awesome so congrats on that yeah absolutely and then if
anybody wants to test either on android or ios all they need to do is just send an email to contact at SIGGIAcloud.io and we'll get you hooked up with that.
Awesome. Yeah, no, it's a beta test has been great.
yeah or if anybody you know runs a podcast or a newsletter or have some kind of platform
that they want to have scott and bell on to chat you can just dm me on on x at sulfoninja3
or on discord i'm sulfoninja72 or just the email at contact at cigiacloud.io
oh yeah well let's go guys i'm excited. I'm really excited to see you guys start bringing more and more data to the network. I think your app is awesome. And I think that finally having mobile support is just like killer.
Yeah, they're definitely, definitely excited and there's going to be some big things coming.
Oh yeah. All right. If anyone else has anything to chat about, or if you have any questions for us, feel free to shoot. But if not, I might shut this down, make it back to work.
all right thanks for coming guys this is awesome town hall as always if you have any questions
discord telegram uh we'd like to uh get back to you as soon as possible and in the meantime um
thanks for supporting us and uh try cegia i think it's cool it's awesome it's on mobile
for the jackal protocol back and front end fully web 2. it's perfect um so reach out to sopha ninja
for access to that app and thanks for being with us
see you guys next in two weeks
thanks everybody thanks for stopping by Thank you.
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JACKAL
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