Slow & Steady

The pirate family are on their third week at the cabin. The Userlist team works on their theme settings. Benedicte’s past two weeks could be summarized in three words: vacation, work, and plumbing. With her new plumbing skills and help from Captain Ola, Queen Raae fixed the sewage issue at the cabin. On the work front, she fixed an issue with Whee!’s SMS, redesigned the last step in the order flow...

Benedikt comes back from The Netherlands. Benedicte enjoys her summer at the cabin. Benedikt spent a week in The Netherlands with his family for his dad’s 70th birthday. On the work front, the team shipped new WYSIWYG features to a few customers and there have been no complaints so far. Benedicte is enjoying her summer at the cabin, filling her days with both fun and productive activities. She sig...

Benedicte makes an investment. Benedikt and the Userlist team enforces password strength requirements. Benedicte is currently enjoying life at a chill pace, which is a nice change for her. On the work front, she managed to get the auth working across Whee!’s two sites. Benedicte also made an investment at her friend’s company, Alfred. After talking with a lead, Benedikt and the Userlist team enfor...

Benedicte talks about her recent bachelorette trip to New York City, a Celebration of Life, and 17th of May in Norway. Benedikt shares an almost week long debugging hunt with a happy ending. Mentioned on the show: Userlist Training Videos Exhausterwhelmulated The Man Drawer

Benedicte shares the plans for her trip to New York. Benedikt handles customer support this week. Benedicte hopes that her head cold goes away soon so she can have a fun weekend with her friends in New York. On the work front, she’s been doing janitorial work on the Whee! codebase and a strangler fig pattern roadmap for their public site. With Mia on vacation, Benedikt’s handling support this week...

Benedicte is on vacation. Benedikt shares why he seriously considered taking a long break from Userlist last year.  Mentioned on the show: Benedikt’s LinkedIn post about almost quitting Userlist

Benedicte ends two big chapters. Benedikt shares how they did in Q1. Benedicte’s mother passed away after a decade-long battle with early onset Alzheimer’s. She looked back at some of the fun memories they had and shared that she’s planning a celebration of life gathering at a bar where her mom used to frequent. Benedicte also marked her last day Outseta, realizing that she won’t have enough brain...

Benedicte is happy despite everything. Benedikt tests their new serializer implementation. Even when life hasn’t been cooperating lately, Benedicte realized that she’s still grateful for a lot of things. At Whee, bike financing came through, they landed a 3-year grant for an IoT project, and AI will enable the team to tackle things they’ve been putting off. Benedikt spent a good chunk of the week...

Benedicte gives an energizing talk at the Oslo Claude Code Meetup. Benedikt uses AI to optimize their website. Despite getting a bit chaotic, Benedicte gave an energizing talk about Jean-Claw at the recent Oslo Claude Code Meetup last week. At Outseta, the team decided to lean into enabling AI operations. Benedikt optimized their website with the help of AI: adding more structured data, creating d...

The OpenClaw bot asks Benedicte some “existential” questions. Benedikt ships their MCP. Benedicte is working on Jean-Claw for her upcoming talk when things get a bit existential. In the middle of setting up the YAML file, the bot halts on the “Who are you? Who am I?” step. She also used Claude to create a Queen Raae voice skill to help her write more like she actually talks. Benedikt shipped their...

Benedicte works on Jean-Claw. Benedikt is doing an MCP experiment. Benedicte is deep in an AI rabbit hole these days: reading, building, and testing with AI as much as she can. She almost bought a Mac Mini to test out her Claude Bot but instead pitched the idea for a talk happening on Feb 25th. Benedikt is doing an MCP experiment for Userlist. In the process, he realized that they might need a new...

Benedikt and Benedicte talk about feeling more productive with AI and why we should use it mindfully. With their year and quarter planning done, Benedikt shares some of their plans and targets for Userlist this 2026. He also shares how he used Claude Code to take care of “annoying projects” on their codebase, find crosslinking opportunities, and more. Benedicte and Ola vibe coded, refined, and dep...

Benedicte and Benedikt tell us what they’ve been up to during the holidays and the first work week of 2026.

Benedikt turns a year older. Benedicte moves forward despite the curveballs. Benedikt took a week off work to celebrate his 40th birthday. He spent his birthday week with a few parties with family and friends, and seeing two concerts. On the work front, he and the team built a Snowflake integration. And with the ETL infrastructure now in place, this potentially opens doors for other integrations....

Benedicte and Benedikt talk about daily walks, measuring by proxy, and the challenges of recording short and succinct screencasts.  At Userlist, Benedikt’s team launched a Posthog integration and new segment templates to improve onboarding. He’s also experimenting with recording different formats for the video challenge. Benedicte recovers from the flu and starts morning walks to boost focus. She...

Benedikt and the team ship do mini launches for features. Benedicte officially enters the video challenge. Benedikt and the Userlist team are making progress on their Q4 plans, recently shipping new features through mini launches. They also started working on improvements for the message editor. And having recorded 3 videos these past weeks, Benedikt is currently leading the video challenge. Bened...

Benedikt and Benedicte share their takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2025. “De-inspired” from the conference, Benedicte decides to focus on Whee and Outseta. Benedikt and the Userlist team are planning mini launches, a revamp of their email marketing, and a friendly video competition.

Benedicte works on Framer Overrides. The Userlist team reveals their new look. For the past days, Benedicte has been working on Framer Overrides with ngrok and fears she might have caused Framer to break. She and Ola are also working on the MVP version of Omway, hoping to have it ready before MicroConf Europe. Meanwhile, the Userlist team just launched the fresh new look of their web app and websi...

Benedicte takes a trip down memory lane. The Userlist team wraps up the redesign project. While writing the newsletter edition focusing on Omway, Benedicte stumbled across old photos from when she worked on a demo called Oslo Stories. On the work front, Outseta’s MCP server is now an npm package that can be used with Cursor, Claude, and more. The Userlist team has been in full crunch mode these pa...

Benedicte builds an MCP server for Outseta. Benedikt and the Userlist team set a launch date for the redesign. Now that school is back on in Norway, Benedicte is trying to validate the idea for an audio guide platform called Omvei by reconnecting with former clients. Benedikt has been working on a new API to manage topics, as well as templating support for workflows in Userlist. Mentioned on the s...

The Pirate family searches for family-product fit. Benedikt shuts down his first SaaS product. The Userlist team makes more progress on their app and website redesign project, which will be shipped a couple of weeks from now. And after running it for 10 years, Benedikt has made the decision to shut down his very first SaaS product. Despite feeling a little blah about the tech industry, Benedicte w...

Benedicte and her Pirate family enjoy their new summer plans. Benedikt comes back from his two-week vacation. Two weeks after jumping ship, the Pirate family have made new plans and are enjoying different activities. On the work front, Benedicte did a solid week of AI work for Outseta, and she and Ola are revisiting their old SaaS ideas. The Userlist team’s redesign project is coming along nicely,...

Benedicte and the Pirate family have new summer plans. Benedikt deals with a number of things before his vacation.  After sailing for 11 days, Benedicte and the Pirate family decided to jump ship because of a misalignment in expectations. Now back in Oslo, the family looks forward to a fun summer of chillaxing at home, doing work on Galleon, and more. Benedikt and the Userlist team are quite busy...

Benedikt finishes a few projects. Benedicte and the Pirate family are busy packing. With Leo mainly focusing on the redesign project, Benedikt wraps up other projects: two new features and their migration to Dragonfly Cloud. He also shares why it’s challenging to pick up business books when you’re running a business. Just two weeks away from their great sailing adventure, Benedicte and the Pirate...

Benedicte shares her goals for the year. The Userlist team goes deep into their redesign project. Benedicte recently met up with her mentor group for a planning session and shares her goals and projected timeline for the next two years. Meanwhile, Ola has been taking charge of the user interviews for Galleon. And with just 4 weeks before their great sailing adventure, the Pirate family is also bus...