Benedicte and Benedikt share life and work updates, and some debugging horror stories. Benedicte and her Pirate family have been low key sick all month. Despite feeling under the weather, they were able to bake and pack more than 100 cookies for the Christmas Market at school. She finished her Xano + Outseta (XO) Vanilla Demo for Outseta, and is doing price adjustments for Whee. Benedikt feels recharged from his birthday vacation last weekend. On the work front, they recently shipped improvement...
Nov 28, 2024•50 min•Ep. 213
Benedikt is in productive mode. Benedicte plays around with Xano. Benedicte is done with fun and modular furniture A fun fact about the world’s first 4G network To cope with the stressful events in the world, Benedikt went into productive mode these past week. They’ve made great progress with their company triggers, built some command line tools to help with debugging workflows, and more. Benedicte recently attended a startup program by Telia with the Whee team. She’s also been playing around wi...
Nov 14, 2024•46 min•Ep. 212
Benedicte is winning at her quarterly goal. Benedikt makes great progress with company triggers. Benedicte makes the Twitter-viral butter chicken recipe With only two months left in the year, Benedicte is crushing her quarterly goal: to have an enjoyable everyday life. At Whee, she’s pushing the boundaries of their Make plan, and will be testing out a tool for their customer SMS. Benedikt and the Userlist team are making good progress with the company triggers feature. While there’s still a long...
Oct 31, 2024•29 min•Ep. 211
Benedikt comes back from MicroConf. Benedicte returns from their fall vacation. Benedicte’s view while coding on the boat Benedicte and tech are in a situationship Benedikt is feeling a bit drained after having an eventful time at MicroConf. While the conference itself was great, he experienced interesting things along the way: from getting flights cancelled to being in the same hotel with a world leader. Benedicte and her Pirate family spent a nice fall vacation on a boat with Captain Ola’s fri...
Oct 17, 2024•36 min•Ep. 210
Benedicte and Benedikt talk about how taking breaks actually help your projects, and more. The power of breaks, a story in three parts Leo’s talk at EmberFest Benedicte’s excited for the wins at her fractional roles: they’ve just launched their Framer plugin at Outseta; and she discovered the wonders of Make.com while creating a Stripe webhook for Whee. But despite doing a lot of stuff at work, Benedicte now makes sure she has time to take care of herself. Meanwhile, Benedikt is enjoying the con...
Oct 11, 2024•34 min•Ep. 209
Benedikt comes back from a short vacation. Benedicte talks about their struggles with estimated arrivals at Whee. EmberFest Prior to his vacation in Munich last week, Benedikt and the Userlist team pushed a few of their upcoming features into production. He’ll also be meeting Leo for the first time in person this week at EmberFest in Dublin. With so many factors that might affect the estimated arrivals of their rented bikes, Benedicte and the Whee team are looking for better solutions to this ro...
Sep 12, 2024•43 min•Ep. 208
Benedicte and Benedikt talk about their hobbies. EmberFest Cards Against Artisans Now that the school year has started, Benedicte is enjoying a freer mental space. With this, she decided that her focus project for next quarter will be “Lovely Everyday Life” so she can do activities that make her everyday life lovelier. Benedicte also recently attended Laravel Live Denmark where she talked about the Joy of Side Projects. Benedikt is making great progress with his drumming and is thinking about si...
Aug 29, 2024•32 min•Ep. 207
Benedikt and Benedicte talk about this year’s unusual summer pace, bug fixing, and more. With most people going on vacations during the summer, businesses usually anticipate things to slow down a bit for the season. But unlike previous years, it looks like businesses are not seeing much of a summer slump this year. Benedikt and the Userlist team have been chipping away at some small improvements on the product, dealing with weird bugs, and have an upcoming database maintenance. Benedicte is also...
Aug 08, 2024•29 min•Ep. 206
Benedicte shares stories from their summer at the cabin. Benedikt talks about their latest product improvements. The summer brought nice summer nights and tropical storms in Scandinavia, giving Benedicte and her pirate family some memorable cabin office life experiences. She also shares that they’ve fixed up a part of their property and listed it on Airbnb. Meanwhile, It’s a hot and humid summer in Benedikt's part of Europe. Despite the heat, Bendikt and the team got a lot of things done: finish...
Jul 26, 2024•34 min•Ep. 205
It’s another bittersweet episode as our hosts talk about wins and some sad news. Whee! wins the Oslo environmental prize Queen Raae and her family on the way to the cabin office The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for Benedicte: attending Lillian’s flute recital, spending a spa day with Salma (@whitep4nth3r on Twitter) in Larvik, and traveling back to Oslo to receive Whee!’s award. Last week was also very emotional for her and the family because they finally moved mom to the nursing h...
Jun 28, 2024•27 min•Ep. 204
Benedikt shares a bittersweet update at work. Benedicte talks about Whee. Whee The Userlist team went into hiring mode these past couple of weeks as a team member will be saying goodbye soon. On the upside, Benedikt has successfully completed the drum course and will be rewarding himself with some new gear. Benedicte shares how Whee works, and the ideas they’re currently exploring to serve more customers in the future.
Jun 13, 2024•44 min•Ep. 203
Shai Schechter chats with Benedikt and Benedicte about his journey with RightMessage and what he’s been up to these days. Feelings Wheel Follow Shai on Twitter Check out Shai’s website Explore Shai’s reading list Both coming from software backgrounds and coming into the online marketing world, Shai and Brennan created RightMessage to have marketing sites become a bit more dynamic and change based on who was visiting. Shai exited the company in 2023 after working on the product for six years. Sin...
May 30, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 202
Benedicte enjoys the mix of remote and in-person activities that comes with her several fractional roles. Benedikt tries to get back into the work groove. Whee Urlbox Benedicte is enjoying the mix of her fractional roles with Outseta and Whee, giving her the best of both worlds of remote and in-person work. She also shares details about their upcoming collaboration with Urlbox. Coming back from a long vacation and taking days off for some holidays the past few weeks, Benedikt is still trying to ...
May 16, 2024•40 min•Ep. 201
To celebrate our 200th episode, Benedikt and Benedicte take a look back at their journey since 2019 and how these milestones have shaped where they are today. Userlist Whee POW! Queen Raae & Family on YouTube Follow Benedikt on Twitter Follow Benedicte on Twitter Follow the Slow & Steady Podcast on Twitter...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 200
Benedicte enjoys her workation in Portugal. Benedikt and the team fixed two major bugs with the help of a user. Data in the Wild Subscribe to Queen Raae’s YouTube channel Benedicte has been enjoying the slow life in Portugal for the past two weeks, enjoying the beach while still able to get some work done. She’s still polishing her latest services for devs and is preparing for the relaunch of Data in the Wild. Benedikt and the team resolved two major bugs with the help of a customer, which goes ...
Apr 11, 2024•33 min•Ep. 199
The Userlist team is seeing some progress with their sales process. Benedicte has some ideas of how to refine her live streaming service. Things are moving forward sales-wise for Benedikt and the Userlist team, sending a few custom-priced enterprise quotes in the past few weeks. Benedikt also shares his takeaway from his recent chat with Monica Lent. With her new Go Live with Queen Raae service, Benedicte is thinking about how to help those dev founders who are a bit hesitant about going live. A...
Mar 21, 2024•31 min•Ep. 198
Benedicte is feeling playful with her latest service and project ideas. Benedikt makes it through a stressful week. Should Benedicte and Ola get the Caravan? Let them know in this thread. Mastering live streaming as a content creation flywheel for a couple of months now, Benedicte is now finalizing the details of her latest service for fellow dev founders. She’s also trying to convince Ola to get a Caravan to renovate as her office/studio. Benedikt is feeling a bit scattered after having a stres...
Mar 07, 2024•31 min•Ep. 197
Benedikt and the Userlist team celebrate a significant financial milestone. Benedicte leans into the human aspects of content creation. Join Benedicte’s biweekly live streams on YouTube Check out MixPod’s revamped web design Despite experiencing a few hiccups with their bank account and Stripe, the Userlist team celebrates a financial milestone as they’ve hit break even. As a bonus surprise, Userlist was able to sell a domain for a significant amount of money. After powering through the birthday...
Feb 22, 2024•41 min•Ep. 196
We have Brian back on the show this week and tells us what he’s been up to. JobLens — Brian’s product The Age of Spiritual Machines — a book by Ray Kurzweil Spiritual Machines — an album by Our Lady Peace Episode 131: Brian is back in town, literally Episode 120: We Have a Contest Winner! Follow Brian on LinkedIn More than a year since he was last on, Brian tells us about his time at GitLab, JobLens, his consulting work, and his board games. Benedikt, Benedicte, and Brian also talk about tech la...
Feb 08, 2024•56 min•Ep. 195
Benedicte talks about the fun during the holiday season. Benedikt shares his 2024 goals. YearCompass — reflect on the year and plan the next one Docs for Developers Despite feeling a bit all over the place, Benedicte and her family had a lot of fun during the holidays. With their newly renovated house, they were able to host about 30 people for the festivities. Benedicte also plans to work on her YearCompass in February after the birthday bonanzas this month. Benedikt looks back at 2023 and it w...
Jan 11, 2024•37 min•Ep. 194
Benedikt and the Userlist team launch their visual workflows feature. Benedicte shares why she now enjoys collaborations. Support Userlist’s visual workflows on Product Hunt Queen Raae’s viral Ikea clip Buy Back Your Time — a book by Dan Martell After two and a half months of sprinting, Benedikt and the Userlist team finally launched their visual workflows. They also dusted off their website which included adding new copy, screenshots, pages, structure, and a new testimonial scroller section, am...
Dec 14, 2023•44 min•Ep. 193
Benedikt remains in crunch mode. Benedicte and her pirate family are back to streaming. Still working on their visual workflow builder, Benedikt and the Userlist team are still in crunch mode. The velocity has been crazy as they were shipping stuff super fast like adding new node types in just a couple of hours. Benedicte, together with her pirate family and AK, just finished their first stream on charting the course for MixPod . And as part of their marketing strategy, they’ll be releasing clip...
Nov 16, 2023•33 min•Ep. 192
Benedicte and Benedikt share updates on Userlist's upcoming visual workflow builder as well as Benedicte's new project, MixPod. Benedicte's Halloween Dinner Amazing CSS Demos Benedikt talks about the progress on Userlist's new feature, and how setting deadlines increases stress, but helps prioritizing what's important. Benedicte shares recent challenges in Outseta's customer support, where people get confused by new client/server patterns in Next.js. Afterwards, she outlines the plan for the new...
Nov 02, 2023•33 min•Ep. 191
Benedicte and Benedikt talk about their updates from the past three weeks, washing machines, winter preparations, and more. Sign the new letter to the U.S. Congress regarding Section 174 Buy Back Your Time — a book by Dan Martell Four Thousand Weeks — a book by Oliver Burkeman Despite crashing into her vacation, Benedicte was still able to chill with friends while surrounded by nature. Things are going nicely at Outseta: they got shout outs at Webflow conferences and are seeing some accounts goi...
Oct 19, 2023•40 min•Ep. 190
Benedicte and Benedikt talk about the old hobbies they’ve picked up and other updates from the week. Here’s Michael and Benedikt on day 1 of their drum challenge POW! , Prune Your Follows — Queen Raae’s app projects MicroConf Europe Things are going great for Benedikt and the Userlist team: they’re currently migrating to their new email service provider, and they’re making good progress with their visual workflow builder. He also shares that he and Michael Koper are taking on a 30-day drum chall...
Sep 21, 2023•47 min•Ep. 189
Benedikt comes back from summer vacation. Benedicte grapples with Gatsby and Jamstack “dying”. End of summer, end of Gatsby? Jamstack is Dead…Or Is It? Coming back from his three-week vacation, Benedikt is feeling relaxed and recharged. On his first few days back, he was able to work on the proper solution for their issue with large broadcasts. With the recent changes at Netlify, the dev community is wondering if Gatsby and Jamstack are indeed dead. Benedicte's recent challenges with support has...
Sep 07, 2023•54 min•Ep. 188
Benedicte talks to Geoff about the marketing experiments they’re doing this fall. Outseta Follow Geoff on Twitter Watch the productive morning routine video Tailwind fake businesses Now that the business is a bit more stable, Geoff’s putting his focus back on marketing. He shares the three marketing experiments they’ll be doing later this year: “cleaning out the gutters”, working with creators, and building their content factory. Benedicte and Geoff also talk about SEO, content products, and mor...
Aug 24, 2023•38 min•Ep. 187
Benedicte and Benedikt take on the challenge of #SummerofUITweaks for their products. Let us know if you’re joining the #SummerofUITweaks on this thread Currently enjoying the last weeks of the European summer, Benedicte is loving the “chilling but still getting work done” vibe. Aside from implementing UI tweaks, they’ve also been working on the WeWeb and Supabase integrations at Outseta. Meanwhile, Benedikt and the Userlist team encountered a bug that caused a broadcast to be sent twice to its ...
Aug 11, 2023•38 min•Ep. 186
Benedikt talks to Andrew Atkinson about different types of database constraints and his upcoming book. Read the tweet that triggered this interview Learn more about High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Check out Andrew’s blog Follow Andrew on Twitter Andrew Atkinson is a staff software engineer at Fountain who is very passionate about Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL (just like Benedikt!). He’s so passionate about them that he’s actually writing a book called “High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails”...
Jul 27, 2023•54 min•Ep. 185
Benedicte thinks about the best way to update docs. Benedikt gets excited about their product development. Get a sneak peek of Benedicte’s second floor Benedicte thinks about the best way to update Outseta docs without creating a big bang project. She’s also working on a pitch for version 2.0 of Prune Your Follows. While Michael and Jane were away, Benedikt handled customer support, giving him a new appreciation on that aspect of the business. On the product development front, the team is making...
Jul 13, 2023•46 min•Ep. 184
