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Slow & Steady

Slow & Steady

By: Benedikt Deicke and Benedicte Raae
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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. Join us on our journey and let's see where the road leads!© 2026 Benedikt Deicke and Benedicte Raae Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Just Used to Chaos
    Jun 4 2026

    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
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    40 mins
  • Her Favorite Day
    May 21 2026

    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 Videos
    • Exhausterwhelmulated
    • The Man Drawer
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    40 mins
  • The Strangler Fig Pattern
    Apr 30 2026

    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

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    52 mins
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