Benedikt shares a bittersweet update at work. Benedicte talks about Whee.

• Whee

The 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 Wheel
• Follow Shai on Twitter
• Check out Shai’s website
• Explore Shai’s reading list

Both 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.

• Whee
• Urlbox

Benedicte 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.

• Userlist
• Whee
• POW!
• Queen Raae & Family on YouTube
• Follow Benedikt on Twitter
• Follow Benedicte on Twitter
• Follow 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 Wild
• Subscribe to Queen Raae’s YouTube channel

Benedicte 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 YouTube
• Check out MixPod’s revamped web design

Despite 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.

We have Brian back on the show this week and tells us what he’s been up to.

• JobLens — Brian’s product
• The Age of Spiritual Machines — a book by Ray Kurzweil
• Spiritual Machines — an album by Our Lady Peace
• Episode 131: Brian is back in town, literally
• Episode 120: We Have a Contest Winner!
• Follow Brian on LinkedIn

More 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 layoffs, AI, why you shouldn’t monetize your hobbies, and more.

Benedicte talks about the fun during the holiday season. Benedikt shares his 2024 goals.

• YearCompass — reflect on the year and plan the next one
• Docs for Developers

Despite 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 was a generally good year for him, reaching significant milestones in his personal and work life. He and the Userlist team are planning to step up their sales game this 2024.