Slow & Steady

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 wit...

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 pu...

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....

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 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 worki...

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 con...

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...

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 an...

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...

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...

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 wea...

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 team...

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...

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 r...

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...

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 f...

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...

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 putti...

Benedicte and Benedikt share tips on how to make the most out of conferences and more. Retweet Colby Fayock’s testimonial about Gatsby   Retweet Brian Lovin’s testimonial about Userlist Priya Parker’s “The Art of Gathering” Benedicte is filled with happy hormones this week because of dancing, more work from Cloudinary, and a wonderful testimonial from a customer on Twitter. She’s working on her pr...

Coming back from a two-week break here at the podcast, Benedikt and Benedicte talk about the progress they’re making and a few existential questions about shipping updates. Jamstack Conf 2022 Modern FrontEnds Live! Prune Your Follows With the summer over, everyone’s in “back to work” mode and the pace is picking up. Benedikt is revitalized after his three-week vacation. The Userlist team is making...

Benedicte chats with Feather.so founder Bhanu Teja P to talk about his Notion to blog platform and the importance of marketing your product. Feather.so Follow Bhanu on Twitter Vercel charged Bhanu ~$1.8k for hosting MDX.One After quitting his job as a software engineer, Bhanu started blogging. He enjoyed creating content but the process was time consuming: after writing on Notion, he still had to...

Benedikt and Benedicte are both celebrating very productive weeks as they see all their efforts come together in their respective projects. Jamstack Conf 2022 Bhanu Teja P of Feather.so The Artist’s Way Benedikt and the team had a pretty successful week in terms of stuff shipped: they finished the frontend query builder improvements, implemented an Amplitude cohort sync integration, and added a se...

Benedicte and Benedikt talk about the updates from the week and why it's in fact good idea to write down your passwords. The ONE Thing by Gery Keller Episode with Pierre from ScrapingBee 1Password 's password recovery process for teams and families Password managers don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than not having one In the last week, Benedikt finally got some work done on th...

With the summer almost over, Benedicte is excited to get back on the grind. Benedikt deals with the heat wave and the load of small things at work. Modern FrontEnds Live! The tweet that got Benedicte the invitation to do an interview with Will Sentance The Culture Map by Erin Meyer Both Benedicte and Benedikt have felt the unusual temperatures brought by the heat wave. Aside from his struggles wit...

UX designer Nathan Powell joins Benedicte and Benedikt to talk about his latest projects, some practical UX tips, and the struggles with onboarding. Nathan’s first SaaS product, Nusii Laura Dunn Nathan’s UX course for developers, Develop Your UX Nathan’s latest SaaS project, Feature Flux Check out Nathan’s website Follow Nathan on Twitter Subscribe to Nathan’s YouTube channel Nathan Powell, former...