Slow & Steady

Brian thinks through some possible paths toward productizing the JTBD traction he's seeing and Benedikt is chipping away at small tasks while the upcoming home move chips away at his energy.

• Aurelius
• TinySeed
• EnjoyHQ
• @happytrailsfamily
• Golden Game Guild
• Visa trial subscription requirements

Brian is preparing for a camper test run this weekend. Benedikt is drained from a weekend of moving boxes and furniture. 

• Tuple
• Matt Swanson on Twitter

Benedikt is surrounded by boxes and in the market for a kitchen. Brian is preparing to enter Backpack into a board game contest.

Brian and Benedikt started to pack up their homes. In addition to that, Brian is fighting literal bugs and Benedikt is building a Zapier integration.

• Zapier
• Jupyter Notebook

Benedikt is feeling excited about the feedback on Userlist's proposed marketing email functionality, and Brian has officially held a version of "Backpack" in his real-life hands!

• The Game Crafter
• Company Accounts by Userlist on ProductHunt
• Brian’s Tweet about Backpack 

Benedikt talks about launching the companies feature of Userlist as well as some database performance break-throughs. Brian is very happy about how his consulting business is turning out this year and is dabbling with some new productized service ideas. 

• Userlist's new companies feature
• Brian's website
• Hammerstone

Benedikt got some bummer news about his lease and Brian might have a prototype of Backpack in his hands sooner than he thought.

• Pgmustard
• Binary tree indexes
• GIN indexes
• Gather Town 
• The Game Crafter

Brian and Benedikt catch up on their progress in the last week. Brian talks about his recent consulting project and play-testing Backpack. Benedikt just launched the new user and company profiles and is tackling some long standing performance issues. 

• Jane McGonigal TED
• Jane on Knowledge Project
• Jane on Ologies
• Yarn Deduplicate
• MicroConf Remote

Brian shares about the latest round of revisions for Backpack and a customer sends the first ever marketing email via Userlist.

• Peter Suhm
• Reform.app
• OpenAPI
• MicroConf Remote
• Ruben Gamez
• Gather.town
• Backpack on BGG

John Nunemaker joins Brian and Benedikt to talk about his journey as a founder and the various product he's built, launched, sold, and reaqcuired over the years. 

• John on FounderQuest
• Harmony
• Gaug.es
• Flipper Cloud
• Speaker Deck
• Box Out Sports
• Fewer and Faster
• John’s Website
• John on Twitter