Slow & Steady

Slow & Steady

By Benedikt Deicke and Benedicte RaaeBusinessEntrepreneurshipTechnology
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Slow & Steady episodes

  • 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.

    35 min
  • You don’t know what you don’t know

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about vibe coding and more.

    Recently named one of Norway’s Leading Women in Tech for 2025, Benedicte feels honored and realizes the importance of having role models in your life. And despite feeling scattered these past weeks, she’s getting to know the API katas for Outseta and was also able to deploy the first version of the script for Galleon Attributes.

    Benedikt and the Userlist team are still wrapping up their transactional email endpoint. And in the process of making the documentation for this, they ended up rewriting and rebuilding their entire API documentation.

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about the cons of vibe coding, what you should actually use AI for, and more.

    Mentioned in the episode:

    • Norway’s 50 Leading Women in Tech 2025
    • Watch the Benedicte’s video for Norway’s 50 Leading Women in Tech 2025
    • Vibe coding takes a hit
    • Galleon Attributes script V1
    47 min
  • “Finish it and ship it” mode

    The Userlist team is wrapping a couple of product stuff up. Benedicte and her Pirate family are testing a new sport.

    With the first quarter of the year almost coming to an end, Benedikt and the Userlist team are working on finishing and shipping a couple of projects including their transactional messages API. He’s also figured out how to do partial date matches (hint: leap years make it complicated).

    Benedicte has been productive in the past few weeks: Galleon.tools is now live, she coded a new booking flow for Whee, and they just had the best month ever at Outseta. She also talks a bit about being filmed for a video that’s coming out this week, and the Pirate family’s new activity.

    Mentioned in the episode:

    • Galleon - Unlock the treasure of user data on your Webflow site
    • Outseta’s best month ever
    50 min
  • The silver lining of a cancellation

    Benedicte feels recharged. Benedikt shares the bright side of a customer cancellation.

    After the crazy beginning to her year, Benedicte is feeling recharged and productive. With the support load down, she finally released the article on WeWeb + Outseta and a companion expansion guide to the integration. Benedicte and Ola are also working on their latest project, Galleon.

    It’s been pretty busy on the product-side for the Userlist team: they shipped company trigger support for nodes and the first version of the transactional messages endpoint and UI. With the product continuously evolving, Benedikt and Jane are thinking about doing a UI redesign of the platform. And while a customer cancellation is a bummer, Benedikt shares the bright side of the situation.

    Mentioned in the episode:

    • Why We Sleep – a book by Matthew Walker
    • Galleon - Unlock the treasure of user data on your Webflow site
    33 min
  • The calm before Christmas 🎄

    After a couple of eventful weeks, things are finally slowing down for the holidays.

    • Queen Raae’s let-it-snow script
    • Userlist’s Conversion Goals feature

    Things have been pretty busy on the product side for Benedikt and the Userlist team: launching the Conversion Goals feature, releasing new workflow node types, and more. And after working around a hard problem for quite a while, the team has finally refactored how the platform works with conditions.

    With Webflow cutting their membership feature in 12 months, Benedicte is planning to make some good demos that would hopefully attract former Webflow customers. And despite being a bit nervous about the templates being filled up correctly, she successfully pushed the payment reminders for Whee customers. On the fun side of things, she and James applied a script to the Outseta website so it’s snowing for the holiday season.

    41 min
  • Debugging horror stories 👻

    Benedicte and Benedikt share life and work updates, and some debugging horror stories.

    Benedicte and her Pirate family have been low key sick all month. Despite feeling under the weather, they were able to bake and pack more than 100 cookies for the Christmas Market at school. She finished her Xano + Outseta (XO) Vanilla Demo for Outseta, and is doing price adjustments for Whee.

    Benedikt feels recharged from his birthday vacation last weekend. On the work front, they recently shipped improvements on how they do condition on Userlist, making it possible to filter users by companies that are within the segment.

    They also talk about some debugging horror stories, token exchanges, and more. 

    51 min
  • Too old for fun and modular startup furniture

    Benedikt is in productive mode. Benedicte plays around with Xano.

    • Benedicte is done with fun and modular furniture 
    • A fun fact about the world’s first 4G network

    To cope with the stressful events in the world, Benedikt went into productive mode these past week. They’ve made great progress with their company triggers, built some command line tools to help with debugging workflows, and more.

    Benedicte recently attended a startup program by Telia with the Whee team. She’s also been playing around with Xano and met someone who’s currently using the tool for a large real estate business.

    Benedikt and Benedicte talk about coping with the overcast, minimizing the bus factor, AI, and more.

    47 min
  • Pushing boundaries

    Benedicte is winning at her quarterly goal. Benedikt makes great progress with company triggers.

    • Benedicte makes the Twitter-viral butter chicken recipe

    With only two months left in the year, Benedicte is crushing her quarterly goal: to have an enjoyable everyday life. At Whee, she’s pushing the boundaries of their Make plan, and will be testing out a tool for their customer SMS.

    Benedikt and the Userlist team are making good progress with the company triggers feature. While there’s still a long way to go, Benedikt shares that they’ve now got a rough idea of how they can streamline this feature with everything else.

    29 min

About Slow & Steady

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We share what it's like to build and launch products as independent software engineers. Benedikt is working on Userlist, a marketing automation platform for SaaS applications. Benedicte is working as a fractional CTO at Whee!, a long term bike rental company in Oslo, Norway.

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