Slow & Steady

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, Userl...

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, JobLe...

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...

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 whi...

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 o...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, an...

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. Meanwhil...

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 pa...

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 n...

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 the...

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 t...

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 2000...

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 w...

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 i...

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 l...

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 assis...

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 s...

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...

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 rece...

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 t...

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 2...