Benedicte shares stories from their summer at the cabin. Benedikt talks about their latest product improvements.The summer brought nice summer nights and tropical storms in Scandinavia, giving Benedicte and her pirate family some memorable cabin office life experiences. She also shares that they’ve fixed up a part of their property and listed it on Airbnb. Meanwhile, It’s a hot and humid summer in Benedikt's part of Europe. Despite the heat, Bendikt and the team got a lot of things done: finishing the exports, improving imports, and now have a nicer overall batch operations architecture.Benedicte and Benedikt talk about two-factor authentication, content repurposing, and more.

It’s another bittersweet episode as our hosts talk about wins and some sad news.Whee! wins the Oslo environmental prizeQueen Raae and her family on the way to the cabin officeThe past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for Benedicte: attending Lillian’s flute recital, spending a spa day with Salma (@whitep4nth3r on Twitter) in Larvik, and traveling back to Oslo to receive Whee!’s award. Last week was also very emotional for her and the family because they finally moved mom to the nursing home.Benedikt is feeling productive again this past week: finishing the Mixpanel integration and working on self-service CSV exports. He also enjoyed the meet up with bootstrapped founders at Frankfurt. And with everything going great with the new hire, Benedikt shares that this is Michael’s final week with them.

Benedikt shares a bittersweet update at work. Benedicte talks about Whee.WheeThe Userlist team went into hiring mode these past couple of weeks as a team member will be saying goodbye soon. On the upside, Benedikt has successfully completed the drum course and will be rewarding himself with some new gear.Benedicte shares how Whee works, and the ideas they’re currently exploring to serve more customers in the future.

Shai Schechter chats with Benedikt and Benedicte about his journey with RightMessage and what he’s been up to these days.Feelings WheelFollow Shai on TwitterCheck out Shai’s websiteExplore Shai’s reading listBoth coming from software backgrounds and coming into the online marketing world, Shai and Brennan created RightMessage to have marketing sites become a bit more dynamic and change based on who was visiting. Shai exited the company in 2023 after working on the product for six years. Since then, he’s been taking it slow and steady while he figures out what to do next.Shai, Benedikt, and Benedicte talk about the lessons he learned in his SaaS journey, why it’s important to be honest with yourself about your current realities, and more.

Benedicte enjoys the mix of remote and in-person activities that comes with her several fractional roles. Benedikt tries to get back into the work groove.WheeUrlboxBenedicte is enjoying the mix of her fractional roles with Outseta and Whee, giving her the best of both worlds of remote and in-person work. She also shares details about their upcoming collaboration with Urlbox.Coming back from a long vacation and taking days off for some holidays the past few weeks, Benedikt is still trying to get back to regular programming at work. He’s also thinking about which feature they’ll focus on building next.

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.UserlistWheePOW!Queen Raae & Family on YouTubeFollow Benedikt on TwitterFollow Benedicte on TwitterFollow the Slow & Steady Podcast on Twitter

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 to show the importance of testing edge cases. Still struggling to have longer durations of focused work, Benedikt thinks of how to be more deliberate about it.

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 improving their property and possibly the Volkswagen bus that’s sitting in Sweden.Benedikt and Benedicte talk about the importance of following up, greenfield projects, and more.

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 stressful week: he had to do a few demo calls in between everything, and had a bit of a rough time with one of their largest customers renewing its annual subscription.

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 birthday bonanzas in January, Benedicte spent 24 hours at the spa and is now feeling re-energized and ready. And with all of the streams and content creation she’s been doing for the past few months, she’s now opening herself to those who need a livestream host, a mystery dev, or video creator.