Slow & Steady
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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.
Slow & Steady
1w ago
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.
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Slow & Steady
1M ago
Benedicte enjoys her workation in Portugal. Benedikt and the team fixed two major bugs with the help of a user.
Data in the Wild
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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 to show the importance of testing edge cases. Still struggling to have longer durations of focused ..read more
Slow & Steady
1M ago
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. And while it’s unfortunate that she didn’t get the caravan, Benedicte refocused her energy on improvi ..read more
Slow & Steady
2M ago
Benedicte is feeling playful with her latest service and project ideas. Benedikt makes it through a stressful week.
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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 stressful week: he had to do a few demo calls in between everything, and had a bit of a rough time with ..read more
Slow & Steady
2M ago
Benedikt and the Userlist team celebrate a significant financial milestone. Benedicte leans into the human aspects of content creation.
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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 bonanzas in January, Benedicte spent 24 hours at the spa and is now feeling re-energized and read ..read more
Slow & Steady
3M ago
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!
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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 layoffs, AI, why you shouldn’t monetize your hobbies, and more ..read more
Slow & Steady
4M ago
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 was a generally good year for him, reaching significant milestones in his personal and work life. H ..read more
Slow & Steady
6M ago
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 clips from the streams on various channels. She also has an upcoming mini-project which she calls S ..read more
Slow & Steady
6M ago
Benedicte and Benedikt share updates on Userlist's upcoming visual workflow builder as well as Benedicte's new project MixPad.
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 streaming series for building MixPad which starts in a few days.  ..read more
Slow & Steady
7M ago
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 going from zero to making a lot of money in a short span of time. Benedicte also talks about the prep ..read more