Benedikt is working on a new signup flow for Userlist. Benedicte has fun at MicroConf.

• Adam McCrea of Rails Autoscale
• Andrew Culver of Bullet Train
• Dr. Sherry Walling
• Michael Christofides of pgMustard
• Llama Life has raised a pre-seed funding round!

Benedicte returns from MicroConf ending several weeks of travel. Physically, she's tired. Mentally, she's energized! She made the most of quick stops in New York City, met some listeners at the conferences, and embraces something very scary... improv. The Gatsby emails keep going out and she gets feedback on POW! from the women at MicroConf. Benedikt poses the question: "How important is the encryption in POW!'s value proposition?"

Benedikt and Leo work together on a new signup flow for Userlist that Jane designed. This work touched some of the oldest code in the codebase so it felt good to give it an update. Changing the Stripe implementation to modernize it was a win as well. Not sponsored! Userlist hired a new Customer Success Engineer — Michael from pgMustard. He's off to the races and even answered an inquiry with the knowledge he had from listening to this podcast.

To wrap up, recent Slow & Steady guests are getting funded. Coincidence? Come on the show and find out!