Don’t build your house on someone else’s lawn

Benedicte and Benedikt discuss platform risk and more.

• Read Michele Hansen’s thread on why you shouldn’t “build your house on someone else’s lawn”
• The Embedded Entrepreneur — a book by Arvid Kahl
• Check out Userlist’s new blog design
• The Rails SaaS Conference

With Twitter announcing that they’re discontinuing free access to their API, Benedicte is yet to see what this means for Prune Your Follows. She also shares why she monetized this side project differently.

Benedikt and the Userlist team have released their new blog design last week and are now shopping around for a new email provider. He’s also very excited about speaking and meeting up with his co-founder at the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference this June.

Benedicte and Benedikt discuss how walking outside makes everything more joyful, why you shouldn’t rely solely on one platform when building a product, 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

Krista Melgarejo

Marketing & Podcasts at @userlist | Writer and digital marketer by trade | Still trying to get that science degree 🎓

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!