Her Favorite Day

Benedikt is busy with paperwork. Benedicte explores more things with Claude.Benedikt has been quite busy with the paperwork involved in the transition process. He also managed to roll out some drag and drop list and condition reordering improvements for the product. And with the recent PHP issues, he also implemented a daily GitHub Actions workflow that checks for dependency security updates.Benedicte spent a week alone at the cabin but stayed longer than planned because of a storm. During this time, she also created a full 3D of their house with Claude to help her with future house improvement projects. She also shares some tips and tricks for making the most out of Claude.Benedikt and Benedicte also discuss government bureaucracy, Benedikt and Jane’s episode on Smart Bear Live, and more.Mentioned on the show:How to Fix a SaaS Trial-to-Paid Conversion Problem – Benedikt and Jane’s episode on Smart Bear Live

Benedicte is back and is in flow state. Benedikt shares a major update.Mentioned in the episode:Check out Queen Raae’s redesigned websiteThe Only SaaS Moats Left in 2026Notes on: The Only SaaS Moats Left in 2026 (YouTube)

For this milestone episode, Benedikt, Benedicte, and Brian take a look back on their journeys.

Benedicte and Ola tie the knot. Benedikt and Jane will be going on the Smart Bear Live podcast.Benedicte and Ola had a beautiful ceremony in their neighborhood two weeks ago. She also came back from a quick trip to London to go to a festival with her childhood friend. On the work front, Benedicte did a major lift on Whee!’s communication channels.Benedikt just came back from vacation and implemented OAuth2 CIMD in between calls. He also shared that he and Jane will be on Jason Cohen’s Smart Bear Live podcast, hoping to get fresh perspectives on the business.

Benedikt improves their HTML email post processing pipeline. Benedicte is prepping for her wedding and goes on another handywoman side quest.Mentioned on the show:Benedicte’s woodworking projects

Benedicte shares her takeaways from the plumbing course. Benedikt goes on a few AWS adventures.Benedicte had so much fun and learned a lot from her plumbing course, even sharing a mindblowing tip of using a balloon to help clear out water from the tap mechanisms during winter. On the work front, their system at Whee! is now live syncing prospects and customers to their email list. Benedicte’s also figuring out how to fix the data inconsistency between the bike availability on their website versus the actual availability of bikes at the workshop.The Userlist team reworked their entire data model for themes to support the new stuff. Benedikt also set up a proper CDN for user uploaded assets so there’s client side caching. He also took some time to set up Userlist on AWS but is quite unsure if they should move over for good because of the complexity and the unknowns.

The pirate family are on their third week at the cabin. The Userlist team works on their theme settings.Benedicte’s past two weeks could be summarized in three words: vacation, work, and plumbing. With her new plumbing skills and help from Captain Ola, Queen Raae fixed the sewage issue at the cabin. On the work front, she fixed an issue with Whee!’s SMS, redesigned the last step in the order flow, sent the first email broadcast, and more. The Userlist team is busy working on their theme settings: Leo’s been working on new styling components while Benedikt gets the server side working. He shares that the biggest challenge with this feature is transitioning to a new production process without breaking anything. Benedikt also went on a side quest with Fable 5 and scanned their platform for security issues.

Benedikt comes back from The Netherlands. Benedicte enjoys her summer at the cabin.Benedikt spent a week in The Netherlands with his family for his dad’s 70th birthday. On the work front, the team shipped new WYSIWYG features to a few customers and there have been no complaints so far.Benedicte is enjoying her summer at the cabin, filling her days with both fun and productive activities. She signed up for an adult summer camp where she learned basic plumbing. On the work front, Benedicte and Ola kickstarted some marketing initiatives for Whee!

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

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 VideosExhausterwhelmulatedThe Man Drawer