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FionnMcon Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser

I genuinely never thought I'd see Father Ted, let alone the lourdes tape dispenser on the front page of HN. What a great day.

FionnMcon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

You have five open PM roles, that link will be recognised for any of them?

FionnMcon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

For x-founders, how can we reach out to you?

FionnMcon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)

Location: Ireland

Remote: Yes (Willing to travel regularly)

Willing to relocate: No

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionndelahunty/

Email: Fionnd {at} pm {dot} me

--- Technical Product Manager and former startup founder.

-Founded an AI/Digital Health startup, raised $1M in VC funding, and built a team. Now eager to return to a hands-on product role.

-Technical product manager before that, shipping dev tech and B2C mobile apps, with a strong focus on driving managing P&L, and evaluating market size and growth opportunities.

-Skilled at bridging the gap between customers and dev teams, ensuring resources are aligned with high-impact initiatives.

FionnMcon A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

Some additional discussion on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Sauna/comments/1b2skn6/a_45_year_en...

FionnMcon Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0820/1400656-cork-ironman/

The weather was very bad, with the tailend of a bad storm that had passed through the previous day

FionnMcon The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably

The act isn't ratified, and probably won't be for some time. The attached link explains that yesterday the act passed the first set of votes in the EU, which formally starts it on the path to being law. The article also describes some of the recent changes to the wording of the law.

FionnMcon The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably

Edited, thanks!

FionnMcon Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

Will handling signatures be on your roadmap?

FionnMcon Show HN: Linen – Make your Slack community Google-searchable

Really like the idea, do you have any worry of Slack blocking your API access if they see you as a competitor?

FionnMcon Show HN: Graphsignal – Production Model Monitoring: Anomalies, Drift, Exceptions

Wow! A great idea (haven't look into the code yet). With the new EU AI regulations coming in 2023/4. Every company with ML in production will need to be able to monitor these issues. Potential for a very good open core business model.

FionnMcon New GitHub Issues Beta

Mariorod! As a company currently using GitHub issues, is there any way to jump onto the beta program quicker?

FionnMcon New GitHub Issues Beta

As a PM who recently moved our eng team from Jira to GitHub (it was a good move btw), this is amazing news! It solves so many of the little problems that GitHub issue caused us, really looking forward to using it!

FionnMcon Building Products at Stripe

I often hear about this concept of deep thinking and deep drive into user stories. My experience sadly is much of the work in companies is dominated by smaller tasks. I'd love to know how stripe handles this balance between big feature developments and smaller issues.