Slow & Steady

Benedikt Deicke, Benedicte Raae, and Brian Rhea
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Sep 18, 2025 • 32min

I might have broken Framer

Benedicte works on Framer Overrides. The Userlist team reveals their new look.For the past days, Benedicte has been working on Framer Overrides with ngrok and fears she might have caused Framer to break. She and Ola are also working on the MVP version of Omway, hoping to have it ready before MicroConf Europe.Meanwhile, the Userlist team just launched the fresh new look of their web app and website. They launched the new Userlist on Product Hunt and ended up getting the Top 5 spot of the day. Benedikt also tells us how they came up with the new logo.Mentioned on the show:From Minimal to Whimsical: How We Redesigned Userlist in 2025
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Sep 4, 2025 • 33min

The podcast accountability model is working

Benedicte takes a trip down memory lane. The Userlist team wraps up the redesign project.While writing the newsletter edition focusing on Omway, Benedicte stumbled across old photos from when she worked on a demo called Oslo Stories. On the work front, Outseta’s MCP server is now an npm package that can be used with Cursor, Claude, and more.The Userlist team has been in full crunch mode these past few days to get everything polished for the September 9th launch. Benedikt also figured out the solution to a database performance issue.Mentioned on the show:Oslohistorier (Oslo Stories)Outseta Admin MCP Server
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Aug 21, 2025 • 37min

Ship it already

Benedicte builds an MCP server for Outseta. Benedikt and the Userlist team set a launch date for the redesign. Now that school is back on in Norway, Benedicte is trying to validate the idea for an audio guide platform called Omvei by reconnecting with former clients. Benedikt has been working on a new API to manage topics, as well as templating support for workflows in Userlist.Mentioned on the showMicroConf Europe
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Aug 8, 2025 • 47min

Family-product Fit

The Pirate family searches for family-product fit. Benedikt shuts down his first SaaS product.The Userlist team makes more progress on their app and website redesign project, which will be shipped a couple of weeks from now. And after running it for 10 years, Benedikt has made the decision to shut down his very first SaaS product.Despite feeling a little blah about the tech industry, Benedicte was able to code for fun again by testing out Laravel for Whee’s log in page. She and Ola are also digging into their old product ideas, using their family-product fit approach to figure out what’s actually worth pursuing.Mentioned on the show:Episode 100Episode 200
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Jul 24, 2025 • 27min

Summers in Europe

Benedicte and her Pirate family enjoy their new summer plans. Benedikt comes back from his two-week vacation.Two weeks after jumping ship, the Pirate family have made new plans and are enjoying different activities. On the work front, Benedicte did a solid week of AI work for Outseta, and she and Ola are revisiting their old SaaS ideas.The Userlist team’s redesign project is coming along nicely, with Benedikt focusing on the redesign of the website. They also brought back their co-working sessions so he and Jane can get more stuff done.
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Jun 26, 2025 • 30min

Pivot

Benedicte and the Pirate family have new summer plans. Benedikt deals with a number of things before his vacation. After sailing for 11 days, Benedicte and the Pirate family decided to jump ship because of a misalignment in expectations. Now back in Oslo, the family looks forward to a fun summer of chillaxing at home, doing work on Galleon, and more.Benedikt and the Userlist team are quite busy these days: polishing the redesign, dealing with more technical tickets, and dealing with some database performance issues. He also shares how Stripe’s complexity is making it hard to move forward with their billing code.Mentioned in the episode:The lost bacon (short by the Pirate Princess)
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May 29, 2025 • 44min

Kanban boards are underrated

Benedikt finishes a few projects. Benedicte and the Pirate family are busy packing.With Leo mainly focusing on the redesign project, Benedikt wraps up other projects: two new features and their migration to Dragonfly Cloud. He also shares why it’s challenging to pick up business books when you’re running a business.Just two weeks away from their great sailing adventure, Benedicte and the Pirate family are busy packing their stuff as contractors will do renovations on their home within the 11 weeks. She and Ola have been hanging out on forums that helped refine their ICP for Galleon. They also celebrated the Pirate Princess’ first circus performance.Benedikt and Benedicte talk about kanban boards, escapism, and more.Mentioned in the episode:RedisShake
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May 15, 2025 • 40min

Naming colors is hard

Benedicte shares her goals for the year. The Userlist team goes deep into their redesign project.Benedicte recently met up with her mentor group for a planning session and shares her goals and projected timeline for the next two years. Meanwhile, Ola has been taking charge of the user interviews for Galleon. And with just 4 weeks before their great sailing adventure, the Pirate family is also busy making preparations.Benedikt and the Userlist team has made good progress on their big UI redesign project. And to address one of their customer’s needs, they are also working on a feature for array filters.
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May 1, 2025 • 42min

Don’t code the thing, talk to people first

The Userlist team is undertaking their next big project. The Pirate family spends a nice vacation at the cabin.Keeping up with their quarterly planning, Benedikt and the Userlist team have decided on their big project for the second quarter: the UI redesign. Feeling excited and a bit nervous about the project, Benedikt hopes that doing it in phases will keep it from exploding into a huge project.Benedicte and her Pirate family spent a nice vacation at the cabin during Easter and also doing some maintenance work. Work wise, the team at Outseta is currently doing paid search experiments to track where first touch referrals are coming from. Benedicte and Ola are also planning to do interviews with potential customers for Galleon.Mentioned in the episode:Why you should stop coding your way to failure Treasure | Stop Motion Movie by Lillian Raae-Vea
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Apr 3, 2025 • 35min

Getting some help from AI

Benedikt and Benedicte share how they’re leveraging AI to help with their current projects.For their Galleon Gateway project, Benedicte’s been working with Claude to come up with a Laravel implementation that she can feed to Cursor. While it’s going well for a couple of her projects, here’s one thing that AI can’t help with just yet: time zone bugs.Benedikt gave AI another try to help with the revamp of their Python library. While it turned out nice after a lot of revisions, he also ended up reading Python documentation to write better prompts. They’ve also just beta launched their transactional emails at Userlist.Benedicte and Benedikt also talk about AI overviews, April Fool’s pranks, and more.

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