Slow & Steady

Benedikt and Benedicte chat with Steve Ruiz about tldraw, art, and slicing pizzas 11 ways.

Show Notes

Benedikt and Benedicte chat with Steve Ruiz about tldraw, art, and slicing pizzas 11 ways.
Steve Ruiz combines art, design, and tech. In his career, he transitioned from an artist to a designer that coded, and then to working with algorithms and tinkering with design-related tools. Many of these projects throughout the years shared an open source theme and tldraw, his current focus, is no different.

Steve tells Benedicte and Benedikt the story of tldraw — taking it from a side project, to going full time, to recently acquiring funding. While the "tiny little drawing" app has taken off relatively quickly, it becomes clear as he recalls previous projects that Steve's success is enabled by all his past work and experimentation on similar ideas.

The trio discusses a ton of other interesting topics: building a team, creating with constraints, open source software, and more.

Creators and Guests

Host
Benedicte Raae 👑
Queen Raae - Let's get the most out of @GatsbyJS | Creator of POW! — the privacy-first menstrual cycle journal (https://t.co/t2m6aOaCgM) | Co-host of the @SlowSteadyPod
Host
Benedikt Deicke
Software Engineer & Co-founder of @userlist. Co-host at @SlowSteadyPod. Running @femtoconf. Creator of @stagecms. Loves music, food, and cooking.
Editor
Dan Yosua
Creative Freelancer:🎥 https://t.co/KkYUZ9QXlO📸 https://t.co/FwOYP3Wysk
Guest
Steve Ruiz
fantasy adventure programming • founder https://t.co/ZzutM7lpqT • blog https://t.co/y7CnSmMfQb • globs https://t.co/kbrTBHbmtf

What is Slow & Steady?

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!