At FINN, we’ve always believed in moving fast and automating even faster. From the beginning, we’ve seen automation not just as a technical tool, but as a mindset that drives scale and impact. That’s why we’ve embraced no-code tools like Make and Retool across all our mission-based teams, building a culture where quick automation is second nature. From this foundation, a clear pattern emerged: solve a problem once, then automate it for good....
Introduction Make (formerly ‘Integromat’) is a highly functional low-code tool that can help you complete complex tasks, quickly. Low-code, and Make in particular, are incredible tools for rapidly creating a proof-of-concept (PoC) of new processes and iterating on existing ones. It can increase your organization’s product velocity by an unbelievable factor, especially when starting from a base of zero automation. It is the not-quite-so-secret sauce of how we at FINN managed to get to $100 million ARR in just 3....
In late September, my FINN colleague Cornelius Schramm and I gave a keynote presentation at the Nocode Summit 2022, the largest no-code event in Europe. We had been invited to speak at the event by Benoît de Montecler, co-founder of ncScale, the no-code software development lifecycle management tool. The plan was to share FINN’s story of raising $900M (debt and equity) with no-code on the main stage at this major gathering in Paris of over a thousand no-code and low-code professionals and international speakers....
At FINN, we grew from 0 to 20,000 car subscriptions, expanded to the US, all in just two years. Those statistics bring one word to mind: speed. We were fast, and how we did so is no secret either. If you want to know, read it in the following article: How A German Start-up Achieved 4 Mn € ARR In One Year | by Ishtiaque Zafar | Medium All that speed came with certain costs....
About FINN FINN is a start-up founded in 2019 in the German automotive hub of Munich, that aims to make mobility fun and sustainable through our car subscription service. Like many other start-ups, we have BIG goals – to be the most popular car subscription company in Europe and the US. Having a great product is one thing, another thing that is imperative to a company’s growth is the people. A promising company attracts promising talents....
We started to use Airtable at the early stages as I described in my previous article. Today, you will be reading how we tackled Airtable’s API limits while the company grows to 10.000 car subscribers since 2019. Andreas Wixler (CTO) initiated the Slack channel for Airtable Action Squad After we hit the limit, we were no longer able to provide a reliable service to our customers. Therefore, we initiated an immediate action squad functioning cross-departments with the lead of Christian (VP Engineering - B2B), Tome (Tech Lead - Customer Product), and Alexander (VP Engineering - Data & Finance)....
Hello, lovely fellows! This is gonna be my first article here; therefore I don’t want to dive into technical details. You will be reading about the journey of FINN, a leading German mobility startup, started their business with No Code and then slowly expatriated to more code (mix of no code and hard code with databases). The company didn’t invest too much time in the beginning for the coding. It just started so simple and overall lead to a great success in several years:...