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Company blog · ideas.fin.ai · on HN as destraynoraistartups

Fin Ideas is the company blog at ideas.fin.ai, writing about ai and startups. Since 2026, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “2× – nine months later: We did it”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers cite the Fin Ideas post "2x nine months later" as an anecdotal example that good results are possible with the team setup described in the Team Topologies post for an agentic platform.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Stories from the team building Fin.

The author on HN?

destraynor · 2,298 karma · member since 2009

co-founder at Fin http://fin.ai I write on the Ideas Blog http://ideas.fin.ai @destraynor on Twitter. destraynor.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. 2× – nine months later: We did it
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-04-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. In real life only a minority of teams achieved good results according to Circle CI report. And there is one notable anecdotal source proving that it is possible - https://ideas.fin.ai/p/2x-nine-months-later

    Comment linking /p/2x-nine-months-later

    on “Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform”
  2. Submitted 2× – nine months later: We did it as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Scroll to Accept? – AI's pull-to-refresh moment as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted 2× – nine months later: We did it as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted 2x the productivity of our R&D org in 9 months as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Fin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted 2× – nine months later: We did it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted 2× – nine months later: We did it (Intercom) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why AI agents need to learn to read the room as a story · 1 points

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