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Slow & Steady

Benedikt Deicke, Benedicte Raae, and Brian Rhea

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Join us as we share what it's like to build and launch a bootstrapped startup while working for yourself full-time. Benedikt is working on Userlist, and Benedicte is establishing herself as a Gatsby expert and developer advocate for hire.
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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 …
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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 Len…
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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 f…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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 w…
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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 …
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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 chall…
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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 wi…
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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 prov…
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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. Wit…
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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: “cl…
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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 We…
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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 Rail…
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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,…
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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 b…
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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:…
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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 fe…
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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 Follow…
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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 featu…
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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 regist…
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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 abou…
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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 Out…
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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 f…
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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 an…
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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” da…
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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 mileston…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 y…
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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 abl…
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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 crea…
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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 …
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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 Crunc…
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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…
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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 Twitt…
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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…
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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, Bene…
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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 t…
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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 simila…
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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…
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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 fr…
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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 be…
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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 w…
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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 Swiz…
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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 fro…
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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 hi…
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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 co…
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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…
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