Slow & Steady – Details, episodes & analysis

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.

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. 

It’s another bittersweet episode as our hosts talk about wins and some sad news.

• Whee! wins the Oslo environmental prize
• Queen Raae and her family on the way to the cabin office

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for Benedicte: attending Lillian’s flute recital, spending a spa day with Salma (@whitep4nth3r on Twitter) in Larvik, and traveling back to Oslo to receive Whee!’s award. Last week was also very emotional for her and the family because they finally moved mom to the nursing home.

Benedikt is feeling productive again this past week: finishing the Mixpanel integration and working on self-service CSV exports. He also enjoyed the meet up with bootstrapped founders at Frankfurt. And with everything going great with the new hire, Benedikt shares that this is Michael’s final week with them.

Brian starts his role at GitLab and continues to make progress on outsourcing development with JTBD.app. Benedikt recaps the email marketing feature launch and shares open roles at Userlist. Benedicte prepares for the Gatsby mini bootcamp kickoff, discusses pricing strategy, and wonders, "Don’t we all want a successful SaaS?"

• JTBD.app
• Now Hiring: Customer Success Manager at Userlist
• Userlist's Marketing Email feature
• Benedicte's Gatsby Bootcamp
• Jonathan Stark
• Benedicte's POW!

Brian's first day at GitLab was as expected — he started setting up and filled out HR paperwork. Learning about the remote-first culture was fascinating, though. On JTBD.app, onboarding development help is getting more exciting. He expects progress on feature improvements soon.

Benedikt recaps the email marketing feature launch from last week at Userlist. He feels good about it but anticipates some time before seeing an impact beyond the initial marketing splash. Userlist is looking to hire a customer success manager and a front end web developer and Benedikt is finalizing the job post for the latter.

Benedicte is preparing for the Gatsby mini bootcamp that launches this weekend! Between planning other topics, iterating on pricing, and building a community, there's a lot of work to be done. Ideally, the up-front effort could make for a rewarding long-term project. POW! is something that Benedicte wants to maintain on the side because... "Don’t we all want a successful SaaS?"

Matt Wensing joins Benedicte, Brian, and Benedikt to talk about Userlist's new marketing email feature. Brian enjoys vacation and finds development help. Benedicte launches her first bootcamp.

• Check out Userlist on Product Hunt
• Matt on Twitter
• Matt's company, Summit
• Userlist's Marketing Email feature
• Benedicte's Gatsby Bootcamp

Big news this week as Brian announces that he's taking a full-time job. Why now and what does it mean for JTBD.app?

• Gatsby Func Jam
• Benedicte’s Submission
• Art of Product with Penelope Phippen of Stripe
• Rob Walling's Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping
• How Not to Stairstep

Brian Casel joins Benedicte, Brian, and Benedikt to talk about ZipMessage, selling businesses, hiring contractors to collaborate with, and how becoming a developer makes you worse at marketing. 

• ZipMessage
• Brian’s Productize & Scale course
• Brian’s Website
• AudienceOps
• FounderGigs

Benedicte got nominated for The Jammies Awards. Brian is feeling a bit overwhelmed by too many things on his plate. Benedikt realized why they are procrastinating a bit on the new marketing feature. 

• Vote for Benedicte at The Jammies Awards
• pgMustard
• The Gatsby FuncJam Challenge
• Tilde

Benedikt has an epiphany, Benedicte is back in POW!, and Brian is all over the place.

• Peak Performance
• Sprint Hard, Rest Hard

Brian decides to cut the year on the road short, Benedicte is now focusing on building a Gatsby training business, and Benedikt is cleaning up Userlist's front-end code base. 

• Live Pair Programming with Adam McCrea
• Queen Raae Codes
• Real Python