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Avrea
Company blog · avrea.com/blog · on HN as _Ormod_programmingsystems
Avrea is the company blog at avrea.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “We picked a great day to launch our faster GitHub Actions runners”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked page is a product site, not writing. Commenters point to it as a GitHub Actions runner alternative from Helsinki, with one saying they chose it after comparing options.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners. About 2x faster on hardware alone, up to 10x with cache hits. Deep observability on every job.
Most-linked posts?
- We picked a great day to launch our faster GitHub Actions runners3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
What Hacker News says?
I would test https://avrea.com They are from Helsinki, just launched and the founding team has multiple SaaS businesses behind them. Depending on the workload it could be really fast. And they are from Helsinki so big plus for anyone from Nordics.
Comment linking /
on “Surprise Pay $1000”Submitted iOS and macOS CI benchmark: Avrea is 3-23x faster than GitHub Actions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOoff, this seems a bit sketchy. We recently looked at GA runner alternatives and decided on https://avrea.com . See if you have a better experience with them :)
Comment linking /
on “Surprise Pay $1000”Submitted How we made GitHub Actions cache up to 6x faster as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We picked a great day to launch our faster GitHub Actions runners as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching Avrea: CI that helps teams ship faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussion