Finn / Press

About

Finn Clancy builds, trades, teaches

Business and computer science at Trinity College Dublin. I care about hard problems, markets, and tools that make people more effective. This page is an outline: jump to the timeline, open a project write-up, or read the full work history in one place.

Snapshot

  • Shipped multiple Chrome extensions (highlights, focus, X feed in PiP, in-browser LLM side panel).
  • Built Sruth, a public macro dashboard (flows, yields, FX, AI daily brief).
  • Archive Capital — automated tools: data pipelines, charts, client-form workflows on the internal research stack.
  • Working on HyperYield — limit orders on Hyperliquid while collateral keeps earning on HyperLend.
  • Contributed to Talos (TIP portal, governance UX).
  • Teaching & community: code mentor (STEM access), Chainlink Labs representative, past roles in student societies and peer mentoring.
  • Internships
  • Positive Equity — Trading intern (2025). Simulated European futures, order flow / DOM, proprietary research, daily strategy review with the desk.
  • Elkstone — Summer analyst (2024). Rotations across real estate, venture, investing, and sales — market research, analysis, and client-facing materials.
  • Trinity Student Managed Fund — macro and allocation work (investment analyst → macro analyst), alongside the internship track above.

Timeline

  1. Archive Capital

    Automated tools — data pipelines, charts, and client-form workflows on the internal research stack.

  2. Code Mentor — Trinity College Dublin

    Guide students through collaborative coding; support gender balance and STEM access.

  3. Representative — Chainlink Labs

    Education, events, and community around Chainlink.

  4. Trading Intern — Positive Equity

    Simulated European futures, DOM/order flow, proprietary research, daily review.

  5. Full Stack Engineer — PolicyPal AI

    React / Vite UI, ChatGPT integration, performance work.

  6. Co-Founder & Deputy Head of Quant — Trinity SMF Quant Division

  7. Student Mentor — S2S, Trinity

  8. Trinity Student Managed Fund — Investment Analyst, then Macro Analyst

  9. Summer Analyst — Elkstone

  10. Campus Ambassador — XRP Ledger Community

Earlier: hospitality and ops in Ireland and the US (kitchen, line cook, food production, real-estate licensing study). Full detail in the work write-up.

Projects & products

Each link opens a longer note (same reader shell as Press, but normal scrolling). Summaries below are the short version.

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Highlighter

Chrome extension to highlight any page in custom colours, organise quotes in folders with comments, draw on pages, and share a clean reader link.

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HyperYield

Trading terminal concept: place long/short limits on Hyperliquid while the same margin keeps earning on HyperLend until the order fills.

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Browser Agent

Chrome side panel with GPT / Gemini: paste page text, take notes while reading or watching video, proofread drafts without opening a new tab.

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Study Guard

Redirects distracting sites until the URLs you care about (study, LLM tools, etc.) are the only ones that load — fully local.

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X PiP Feed

Chrome extension: live X Following feed in a floating PiP-style window or Chrome side panel, with optional translation.

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Sruth

Sruth.app tracks 140+ macro series (FRED, Yahoo): yields, spreads, FX, liquidity, growth, labour, inflation — hourly data plus a 5am UTC AI brief.

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imsg2spot

Python / PyPI CLI: scan an iMessage group for Spotify links and materialise a playlist — full-disk access + pipx install.

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Talos & the TIP Portal

Open-source Talos (Offchain Labs / Arbitrum orbit): I integrated a TIP Portal into talos.is so anyone can draft Talos Improvement Proposals with LLM help and land a GitHub PR via OAuth.

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dev-prompts

VS Code extension plus open prompts repo — search topics, multi-select folders/files, sync ./prompts, import entire trees.

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finnslib

Python package to summarise a function, file, or whole repo tree for LLM prompts — cheap gpt-4o-mini passes, CLI included.

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project-structure-tree

VS Code extension that drops project_structure.txt at the repo root — paste straight into a system prompt.

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Archive Capital

Building automated tools with the team: data pipelines, charts, and client-form automation, on top of the wider UCITS / funds research stack. Read the short overview →

Work experience

One page with roles, bullets, and context — consolidated from my CV and LinkedIn.

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Essays & elsewhere

  • Press / Essays — longer-form pieces (e.g. technology, inequality, markets).
  • LinkedIn — launch posts, market threads, and shorter notes (stablecoins, Hyperliquid v. retail brokers, Web 4 framing, and similar).
  • X — current thinking and shares.