Benedicte enjoys her workation in Portugal. Benedikt and the team fixed two major bugs with the help of a user. Data in the WildSubscribe to Queen Raae’s YouTube channelBenedicte 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...

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...

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 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...

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 YouTubeCheck out MixPod’s revamped web designDespite 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...

We have Brian back on the show this week and tells us what he’s been up to. JobLens — Brian’s productThe Age of Spiritual Machines — a book by Ray KurzweilSpiritual Machines — an album by Our Lady PeaceEpisode 131: Brian is back in town, literallyEpisode 120: We Have a Contest Winner!Follow Brian on LinkedInMore 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...

Benedicte talks about the fun during the holiday season. Benedikt shares his 2024 goals. YearCompass — reflect on the year and plan the next oneDocs for DevelopersDespite 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...

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 which included adding new copy, screenshots, pages, structure, and a new testimonial scroller...

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...

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 get confused by new client/server patterns in Next.js. Afterwards, she outlines the plan for...

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...

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 visual workflow builder. He also shares that he and Michael Koper are taking on a 30-day drum...

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 is wondering if Gatsby and Jamstack are indeed dead. Benedicte's recent challenges with support...

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, and building their content factory.  Benedicte and Geoff also talk about SEO, content products,...

Benedicte and Benedikt take on the challenge of #SummerofUITweaks for their products. Let us know if you’re joining the #SummerofUITweaks on this threadCurrently 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. Meanwhile, Benedikt and the Userlist team encountered a bug that caused a broadcast to be sent twice to...

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 passionate about them that he’s actually writing a book called “High Performance PostgreSQL for...

Benedicte thinks about the best way to update docs. Benedikt gets excited about their product development. Get a sneak peek of Benedicte’s second floorBenedicte 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 new appreciation on that aspect of the business. On the product development front, the team is...

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 they go on their summer vacation. She also enjoyed her time at the recent React Norway and felt very...

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 the Outseta founders in Athens, and going on the Slow Business Adventure gathering the west...

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 2000s during her uni days. With the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference, Benedikt is currently focused...

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 work: signing up for window restoration classes, a sauna membership, and doing renovations. With...

Benedikt ponders on adding a now page for Userlist. Benedicte gets excited about an upcoming upgrade to their property. Check out Lillian’s mmm.pageAfter 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 is excited about a few things in the past week: they just got a great offer for a staircase and...

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 lets you unlock what you can do with your domain so you can automate whatever you want. Anthony,...

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 assistance during these situations. She also shares a memory from five years ago which influenced the...

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 she’s handling four jobs, she’s trying to figure out a way on how to juggle everything...