Benedikt shares a major life update. Benedicte gets things wrapped up before vacation. Things were slow for Benedikt last week in preparation for his big day. Despite the slower pace of things, the Userlist team accomplished a few things: they worked on their message rendering refactoring, and made progress on their trigger unification. Feeling a bit frazzled, Benedicte wraps things up before they go on their summer vacation. She also enjoyed her time at the recent React Norway and felt very pow...
Jun 29, 2023•32 min•Ep. 183
Benedikt and Benedicte have finally met in person in Athens. Benedikt had a great time at the recent Rails SaaS conference where he was able to meet up with his Userlist co-founder Jane, and Benedicte. Now back in Germany and fully recovered, he’s catching up with his work at Userlist. The past few weeks have been filled with travels for Benedicte: painting their cabin in Sweden, meeting up with the Outseta founders in Athens, and going on the Slow Business Adventure gathering the west coast. Be...
Jun 15, 2023•27 min•Ep. 182
Benedikt prepares for his upcoming Rails SaaS Conference talk. Benedicte visits her old university town. Rails SaaS Conference Four Thousand Weeks — a book by Oliver Burkeman Recording from Trondheim this week, Benedicte is back in town to serve as an external reviewer of the university’s IT Master Program. Her exploration of the university town felt like she was transported back to the early 2000s during her uni days. With the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference, Benedikt is currently focused on pre...
May 25, 2023•28 min•Ep. 181
Benedicte thinks about how to move forward with Prune Your Follows. Benedikt starts working on their conversion goals feature. Prune Your Follows @levelsio’s tweet that gave Prune Your Follows more following The new Twitter API has changed the rules of the game, which makes Benedicte think about options on how to move forward with Prune Your Follows. Despite this, she’s been enjoying life beyond work: signing up for window restoration classes, a sauna membership, and doing renovations. With the ...
May 18, 2023•43 min•Ep. 180
Benedikt ponders on adding a now page for Userlist. Benedicte gets excited about an upcoming upgrade to their property. Check out Lillian’s mmm.page After getting feedback from churned users, Benedikt thinks about having a changelog or now page so that users could check for Userlist product developments. They’ve also just shipped their latest feature and is now available for all users. Benedicte is excited about a few things in the past week: they just got a great offer for a staircase and she’s...
May 11, 2023•46 min•Ep. 179
Anthony Eden chats with Benedicte and Benedikt about DNSimple, marketing, how they delegate decision making in their team, and more. DNSimple Follow DNSimple on Mastodon Follow Anthony on Twitter , Mastodon , and LinkedIn When Anthony and his brother created the product in 2010, they had developers in mind from day one. And unlike other domain registrars and DNS providers in the market, DNSimple lets you unlock what you can do with your domain so you can automate whatever you want. Anthony, Bene...
Apr 27, 2023•41 min•Ep. 178
Benedicte takes it easy this week as she nurses a cold. Benedikt thinks about how to market their latest feature. Search three ways with Xata: Partial Match, Fuzzy Full-text, and Semantic (AI) Let Benedicte know if you would you like a “Clean code makes Benedikt happy” sticker or shirt Now sick for a third time in recent weeks, Benedicte talks about how the Norwegian government could provide assistance during these situations. She also shares a memory from five years ago which influenced the nam...
Apr 20, 2023•19 min•Ep. 177
Benedikt and Benedicte talk about her new role and the dangers of Section 174. Episode 157: Outseta with Geoff Roberts Read Michele Hansen’s thread about Section 174 Sign the Small Software Business Coalition Letter to the U.S. Congress With all her little side quests across the years, things are culminating for Benedicte as she recently became Outseta’s new developer relations person. Now that she’s handling four jobs, she’s trying to figure out a way on how to juggle everything sustainably. Be...
Apr 13, 2023•37 min•Ep. 176
With things now clicking, Benedikt makes great progress with their reporting feature. Benedicte pitches an old idea to some hip hop celebrities at the library. Lillylabs’ Tram Ride Audio on GitHub Check out Oslo Stories (in Norwegian) Lillylab’s Oslohistorier on GitHub See what Brian's up to on LinkedIn A total turnaround from last week, Benedikt feels pretty happy with the refactoring he did on the reporting implementation. He found that breaking down the problem into smaller chunks really help...
Mar 30, 2023•22 min•Ep. 175
Benedicte dreams of having a small content team. Benedikt uncovers more complications with building the reporting feature. Data in the Wild Ep. 2 with Pierre de Wulf of Scraping Bee Currently working on a couple of content projects, Benedicte’s dreams of having a small content team that can help with the editing and remixing. She also celebrates another milestone with Prune Your Follows which recently surpassed 1,000 users. Benedikt bounces back from feeling super tired last week and got back in...
Mar 23, 2023•38 min•Ep. 174
Benedicte enjoys some forced relaxation. The Userlist team launches the type support for the condition builder. Data in the Wild Ep. 1 with Monica Lent of Affilimate See the type support in action After falling at horse camp the other week, Benedicte enjoys some “forced relaxation” following her doctor’s orders. And now that the “no screen time” days are over, she and Ola are excited to record the first episode of “Data in the Wild''. Benedicte also shares her joy over helping people out through...
Mar 16, 2023•27 min•Ep. 173
Benedicte brainstorms titles for their upcoming podcast series with Xata. Benedikt runs into issues with deleting large amounts of data. Add your suggestion for a podcast title on this thread Despite not being able to push through with their vacation as planned, Benedicte found a great mood booster by dancing this week. She reached another milestone with Prune Your Follows which just facilitated 25,000 unfollows this week. Benedicte’s also brainstorming titles for their upcoming podcast with Xat...
Mar 02, 2023•29 min•Ep. 172
Benedikt and the Userlist team make more progress on their reporting feature. And with everything that’s going on with Twitter and Gatsby, Benedicte waits for the dust to settle. Know someone who can be interviewed on the upcoming data modeling podcast? Reach out to Benedicte via Twitter Benedikt feels excited about going to his first live concert after three years. Despite getting distracted with so many little things last week, he and the Userlist team were able to create a working internal ve...
Feb 23, 2023•25 min•Ep. 171
Benedikt and Benedicte talk about owning their identities and more. Atomic Habits — a book by James Clear Read Benedicte’s first article on the Xata blog Benedicte feels a little frustrated that a cold has interrupted her fitness habit. Despite this, she’s looking forward to bouncing back and taking ownership of this new fitness identity. She also shares the excitement of getting her first post published on the Xata blog. Meanwhile, Benedikt and the Userlist team are making gradual progress on t...
Feb 16, 2023•32 min•Ep. 170
Benedicte and Benedikt discuss platform risk and more. Read Michele Hansen’s thread on why you shouldn’t “build your house on someone else’s lawn” The Embedded Entrepreneur — a book by Arvid Kahl Check out Userlist’s new blog design The Rails SaaS Conference With Twitter announcing that they’re discontinuing free access to their API, Benedicte is yet to see what this means for Prune Your Follows. She also shares why she monetized this side project differently. Benedikt and the Userlist team have...
Feb 09, 2023•33 min•Ep. 169
Benedicte tries out a new physical activity. Benedikt works on new features for Userlist. Prune Your Follows Check out Userlist’s message composer in action With the work on the message composer all wrapped up, the Userlist team is now focused on building new features. And despite having to take care of many small things last week, Benedikt was able to figure out the issue with the blog structure. Benedicte encounters problems caused by their flaky internet connection. She also shares details ab...
Feb 02, 2023•21 min•Ep. 168
Benedicte celebrates her big four-o with a spa day by the ocean. Benedikt and the Userlist team work on their blog redesign. It’s been a nice weekend for Benedicte: going to a local ski resort then celebrating her birthday at her favorite spa by the ocean. It’s also been a great week at work because of new and exciting things: upcoming content creation projects with Xata and the potential of working with The Norwegian Bank. As part of their annual company planning, Benedikt and the Userlist team...
Jan 19, 2023•26 min•Ep. 167
Cheers to the new year! Benedicte and Benedikt look back at their 2022 journeys and set new goals for the coming year. YearCompass — reflect on the year and plan the next one Listen to our 2022 goal setting episode Benedicte was able to keep her 2022 slow and steady for the most part and was able to not get so distracted with shiny new things. For this coming year, she hopes to embrace her own content creation and take more mini breaks. And while Benedikt wasn’t able to exactly hit his recreatio...
Jan 12, 2023•34 min•Ep. 166
Benedikt and Benedicte talk about their wonderful holiday breaks and upcoming plans for 2023. Prune Your Follows Read the TechCrunch feature about Prune Your Follows Send Benedicte a message to join the Yoga Pirates With things slowing down during the holidays, Benedikt and the Userlist team were able to successfully migrate their database to Crunchy Bridge. Despite experiencing issues a couple of days after the migration, all is very well with better monitoring and better performance (with less...
Jan 05, 2023•25 min•Ep. 165
Benedicte and Benedikt talk about the recent launch of Prune Your Follows on ProductHunt, migrating from Heroku Postgres to Crunchy Bridge, and preparing for some time off for the holidays. Prune Your Follows on Product Hunt! Prune Your Follows Crunchy Bridge Prune Your Follows made it to #13 on ProductHunt last week and also "broke" Twitter in the process. Benedicte is happy about the results and enjoyed the buzzing energy of the launch. She also shares some things that worked well during the l...
Dec 22, 2022•30 min•Ep. 164
Benedicte launches Prune Your Follows on Product Hunt. Benedikt deals with small annoyances at work. Upvote Prune Your Follows on Product Hunt! Take a look at Benedicte’s cool new wood stove Recovering from a bad cold last week, Benedicte gets to work on launching Prune Your Follows on Product Hunt. And after finding out new information about Twitter’s unfollow rate limit, she’s currently thinking about a workaround. Unable to get any of his planned work done, Benedikt feels annoyed with having ...
Dec 15, 2022•35 min•Ep. 163
Benedikt and the Userlist team decide on their next big feature. Benedicte comes across new challenges with Prune Your Follows. Prune Your Follows Here’s ChatGPT’s advice for launching Prune Your Follows on Product Hunt After doing a series of customer interviews, the Userlist team decided on the next big feature to work on: reporting. And with the holiday break coming up soon, they also kicked off the project to migrate their primary database from Heroku to Crunchy Data. As Prune Your Follows g...
Dec 08, 2022•36 min•Ep. 162
Benedicte and Benedikt return to the daily grind after enjoying the conference season. Here’s why we had to push back the recording time of this week’s episode Getting Things Done – a book by David Allen Listen to Benedikt’s conversation with Brian Casel about shipping speed Prune Your Follows After not being able to attend for the past years, Benedikt enjoyed himself at MicroConf Europe: nice weather, meeting their customer support advocate in person, and all the social events between the talks...
Dec 01, 2022•28 min•Ep. 161
Ivar Østhus of Unleash chats with Benedicte about feature flagging, how they enable collaboration in teams, how they turned their side gig into a full time business, and more. Unleash Follow Unleash on Twitter Follow Ivar on Twitter and LinkedIn What started as a side gig in a basement in Norway, Ivar and his brother turned their SaaS into a full time business in early 2021. Their tool allows teams to build features together, ship new features in small increments, and enables transparency within...
Nov 24, 2022•42 min•Ep. 160
Benedicte enjoys a fun week at Jamstack Conf. Benedikt wraps things up at work before next week’s MicroConf Europe. Despite feeling tired after Jamstack Conf, Benedicte enjoyed a great week in San Francisco that was filled with partying and talking. She also had a nice chat with an encryption backend that might lead to a deal for POW! that’s similar to Prune your Follows. After finishing the final touches on the message composer, the Userlist team is now rolling it out for everyone. Benedikt’s a...
Nov 11, 2022•21 min•Ep. 159
After running into a problem with her domain, Benedicte and Benedikt talk about how to protect your email address and domain. Prune Your Follows BDTP S6E1: Email Deliverability with Lauren Meyer Read more about SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Postmark’s DMARC Reports Tool Despite experiencing a “fail week” with technology, Benedicte celebrates a few wins with her projects such as getting Prune Your Follows ready for beta along with this week’s Xata launch and slowly converting her site to Tailwind. Benedik...
Nov 03, 2022•31 min•Ep. 158
Geoff Roberts of Outseta chats with Benedikt and Benedicte about Outseta, their uncommon operating and compensation model, and more. Outseta Justin Welsh SDR Nation Follow Geoff on Twitter While there are a lot of best in class tools out there, more often than not, early stage businesses only need basic functionalities to get things done. Coming from the same experience, Geoff and Dimitris used it to build Outseta, an all-in-one tech stack (that includes payments, authentications, CRM, and email...
Oct 27, 2022•54 min•Ep. 157
Benedicte lands the deal for Prune Your Follows. Benedikt deals with the slow speed of moving their rendered emails. Should Benedicte get the black or steel refrigerator? Backblaze Xata Geoff Roberts of Outseta Benedicte successfully lands the deal to rebuild Prune Your Follows with Xata, NextAuth, and Gatsby. With everything she has to get done before flying out to San Francisco, she’s looking forward to doing a good crunch time to fight the insecurities away. Benedikt is feeling a bit frustrat...
Oct 20, 2022•34 min•Ep. 156
Benedikt focuses on solving other issues on Userlist. Benedicte makes the most out of her vacation in Germany. Conference Buddy Geoff Roberts of Outseta With the message composer now deployed to production, Benedikt and the Userlist team can now focus on adding more niceties and fixing other issues on the platform. Despite being unable to meet up with Benedikt last week, Benedicte had a nice and productive vacation in Germany. She was able to catch up with Mirjam Aulbach of Conference Buddy for ...
Oct 13, 2022•45 min•Ep. 155
Benedicte pitches her latest side project to a database startup. Benedikt gets an interesting question from his mentee. Read Benedikt and Jesse’s back and forth about shipping updates Prune Your Follows Campfire Labs – a content company Traction – a book by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares First Ruby Friend Senior Engineer Mindset – a book by Swizec Teller Benedikt and the Userlist team are putting the finishing touches on their message composer, which will be deployed to projection very soon. ...
Sep 29, 2022•50 min•Ep. 154
