Slow & Steady

Hosted by Benedikt Deicke, Benedicte Raae, and Brian Rhea

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Join us as we share what it's like to build and launch a bootstrapped startup while working for yourself full-time. Benedikt is working on Userlist, and Benedicte is establishing herself as a Gatsby expert and developer advocate for hire.

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June 4, 2026Episode 24439 min

Just Used to Chaos

Benedicte makes an investment. Benedikt and the Userlist team enforces password strength requirements.Benedicte is currently enjoying life at a chill pace, which is a nice change for her. On the work front, she managed to get the auth working across Whee!’s two sites. Benedicte also made an investment at her friend’s company, Alfred.After talking with a lead, Benedikt and the Userlist team enforced password strength requirements for their platform. They also implemented stripping URLs on certain fields during signup to take care of a challenging issue.Mentioned on the show:Alfred

May 21, 2026Episode 24340 min

Her Favorite Day

Benedicte talks about her recent bachelorette trip to New York City, a Celebration of Life, and 17th of May in Norway. Benedikt shares an almost week long debugging hunt with a happy ending. Mentioned on the show:Userlist Training VideosExhausterwhelmulatedThe Man Drawer

April 30, 2026Episode 24251 min

The Strangler Fig Pattern

Benedicte shares the plans for her trip to New York. Benedikt handles customer support this week.Benedicte hopes that her head cold goes away soon so she can have a fun weekend with her friends in New York. On the work front, she’s been doing janitorial work on the Whee! codebase and a strangler fig pattern roadmap for their public site.With Mia on vacation, Benedikt’s handling support this week. They’ve also shipped their webhook node and built guardrails for various aspects of their app.Mentioned on the show:Postpone

April 17, 2026Episode 24159 min

I Almost Quit Userlist

Benedicte is on vacation. Benedikt shares why he seriously considered taking a long break from Userlist last year. Mentioned on the show:Benedikt’s LinkedIn post about almost quitting Userlist

April 2, 2026Episode 24039 min

Ending Chapters

Benedicte ends two big chapters. Benedikt shares how they did in Q1.Benedicte’s mother passed away after a decade-long battle with early onset Alzheimer’s. She looked back at some of the fun memories they had and shared that she’s planning a celebration of life gathering at a bar where her mom used to frequent. Benedicte also marked her last day Outseta, realizing that she won’t have enough brain space for two roles when things start ramping up at Whee. She looks forward to giving herself a slow April.Benedikt and the Userlist team reviewed their Q1 and while they got a lot done, they got a bit derailed from their original plans. He also took a week off from work but a database issue made it challenging to settle into vacation mode.

March 19, 2026Episode 23945 min

Your Bot Names Say A Lot About You

Benedicte is happy despite everything. Benedikt tests their new serializer implementation.Even when life hasn’t been cooperating lately, Benedicte realized that she’s still grateful for a lot of things. At Whee, bike financing came through, they landed a 3-year grant for an IoT project, and AI will enable the team to tackle things they’ve been putting off.Benedikt spent a good chunk of the week deep in a new serializer implementation for Userlist. The full test suite was green for a while but it broke again in an effort to improve things overall. He also recorded two videos on array filtering and got more intentional with his social media posting.Mentioned on the show:Customer Bastien: your MCP server has a permission problemPostponeFrom Domain Authority to Entity Authority: 2026 Google Discover Update

March 5, 2026Episode 23855 min

Let’s Check Back in 6 Months

Benedicte gives an energizing talk at the Oslo Claude Code Meetup. Benedikt uses AI to optimize their website.Despite getting a bit chaotic, Benedicte gave an energizing talk about Jean-Claw at the recent Oslo Claude Code Meetup last week. At Outseta, the team decided to lean into enabling AI operations.Benedikt optimized their website with the help of AI: adding more structured data, creating dedicated author pages, adding an “updated” date field, and more. And while he’s certain that a perfect Ahrefs health score is just a vanity metric, he’s taking that small win.Benedicte and Benedikt also talk about how AI speeds up experimentation, why they think good taste and experience matters these days, and more.Mentioned on the show:Is it Queen or AI?More and more social posts are drafted while interacting with AI agents

February 19, 2026Episode 23745 min

In A Relationship With AI And It’s Complicated

The OpenClaw bot asks Benedicte some “existential” questions. Benedikt ships their MCP.Benedicte is working on Jean-Claw for her upcoming talk when things get a bit existential. In the middle of setting up the YAML file, the bot halts on the “Who are you? Who am I?” step. She also used Claude to create a Queen Raae voice skill to help her write more like she actually talks.Benedikt shipped their MCP experiment, letting users generate broadcasts, use Liquid tags inside broadcasts, and somewhat create segments. And with Heroku’s recent announcement, he’s looking into alternatives once more.

February 5, 2026Episode 23650 min

AI Episode #2

Benedicte works on Jean-Claw. Benedikt is doing an MCP experiment.Benedicte is deep in an AI rabbit hole these days: reading, building, and testing with AI as much as she can. She almost bought a Mac Mini to test out her Claude Bot but instead pitched the idea for a talk happening on Feb 25th.Benedikt is doing an MCP experiment for Userlist. In the process, he realized that they might need a new way to manage their schema. The team has also shipped their webhook node behind a feature flag while they figure out the SSRF stuff.

January 22, 2026Episode 23549 min

The AI Episode

Benedikt and Benedicte talk about feeling more productive with AI and why we should use it mindfully.With their year and quarter planning done, Benedikt shares some of their plans and targets for Userlist this 2026. He also shares how he used Claude Code to take care of “annoying projects” on their codebase, find crosslinking opportunities, and more.Benedicte and Ola vibe coded, refined, and deployed the first version of the theft flow for Whee! which will be user tested soon. She also played around with AI for some docs work at Outseta and was amazed when it built a demo Next app in one shot.

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