Slow & Steady

Brian Rhea & Benedikt Deicke

Join us as we share what it's like to build and launch a bootstrapped startup while working for yourself full-time.

  • 28 minutes 41 seconds
    Pushing boundaries

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

    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.

    31 October 2024, 9:00 am
  • 35 minutes 34 seconds
    Do we really need an app for everything?

    Benedikt comes back from MicroConf. Benedicte returns from their fall vacation.

    Benedikt is feeling a bit drained after having an eventful time at MicroConf. While the conference itself was great, he experienced interesting things along the way: from getting flights cancelled to being in the same hotel with a world leader.

    Benedicte and her Pirate family spent a nice fall vacation on a boat with Captain Ola’s friend. But with the Framer Plugin launch happening in the middle of the vacation, she had to do some last minute changes because of a Framer API change. Benedicte also shares their summer plans for next year.

    Benedikt and Benedicte talk about cache busting, if we really need an app for everything, and more.

    17 October 2024, 8:00 am
  • 33 minutes 56 seconds
    Get up off the desk

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about how taking breaks actually help your projects, and more.

    Benedicte’s excited for the wins at her fractional roles: they’ve just launched their Framer plugin at Outseta; and she discovered the wonders of Make.com while creating a Stripe webhook for Whee. But despite doing a lot of stuff at work, Benedicte now makes sure she has time to take care of herself.


    Meanwhile, Benedikt is enjoying the conference season. He just returned from EmberFest in Dublin where he met Leo in person for the first time. He’ll also be going to MicroConf Europe. The Userlist team’s also making great progress on company triggers.

    11 October 2024, 8:00 am
  • 42 minutes 54 seconds
    No perfect solution

    Benedikt comes back from a short vacation. Benedicte talks about their struggles with estimated arrivals at Whee.

    Prior to his vacation in Munich last week, Benedikt and the Userlist team pushed a few of their upcoming features into production. He’ll also be meeting Leo for the first time in person this week at EmberFest in Dublin.

    With so many factors that might affect the estimated arrivals of their rented bikes, Benedicte and the Whee team are looking for better solutions to this roadblock. She also shares her observations while she watches Lillian and the other neighborhood kids work on their lemonade stands.

    12 September 2024, 8:00 am
  • 32 minutes 18 seconds
    Lovely Everyday Life

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about their hobbies.

    Now that the school year has started, Benedicte is enjoying a freer mental space. With this, she decided that her focus project for next quarter will be “Lovely Everyday Life” so she can do activities that make her everyday life lovelier. Benedicte also recently attended Laravel Live Denmark where she talked about the Joy of Side Projects.

    Benedikt is making great progress with his drumming and is thinking about signing up for in-person lessons to further improve his skills. Leo will be talking at EmberFest in Dublin this September and will also be the first time that the two of them will be meeting in person.

    29 August 2024, 8:00 am
  • 29 minutes 21 seconds
    A not so slow summer

    Benedikt and Benedicte talk about this year’s unusual summer pace, bug fixing, and more.

    With most people going on vacations during the summer, businesses usually anticipate things to slow down a bit for the season. But unlike previous years, it looks like businesses are not seeing much of a summer slump this year.

    Benedikt and the Userlist team have been chipping away at some small improvements on the product, dealing with weird bugs, and have an upcoming database maintenance.

    Benedicte is also dealing with bugs at Whee and is plowing through dependency hell. She and her Pirate family are also preparing their rustic Airbnb property for the first guest who’ll be staying with them this week.

    8 August 2024, 8:00 am
  • 33 minutes 35 seconds
    A summer of heat waves, tropical storms, and everything in between

    Benedicte shares stories from their summer at the cabin. Benedikt talks about their latest product improvements.

    The summer brought nice summer nights and tropical storms in Scandinavia, giving Benedicte and her pirate family some memorable cabin office life experiences. She also shares that they’ve fixed up a part of their property and listed it on Airbnb. 

    Meanwhile, It’s a hot and humid summer in Benedikt's part of Europe. Despite the heat, Bendikt and the team got a lot of things done: finishing the exports, improving imports, and now have a nicer overall batch operations architecture.

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about two-factor authentication, content repurposing, and more.

    26 July 2024, 8:00 am
  • 26 minutes 58 seconds
    Why go to therapy if you can podcast

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

    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.

    28 June 2024, 8:00 am
  • 43 minutes 46 seconds
    A bittersweet update

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

    13 June 2024, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    A Journey from SaaS to Self-Discovery with Shai Schechter

    Shai Schechter chats with Benedikt and Benedicte about his journey with RightMessage and what he’s been up to these days.

    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.

    30 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 40 minutes 28 seconds
    Embracing the fractional life

    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.

    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.

    16 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • More Episodes? Get the App
© MoonFM 2024. All rights reserved.