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Re: European Alternatives

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Post by evaneykelen »

mlitwiniuk wrote: post #248

Speaking of missing categories — there's no "Compliance Tools" or "GRC" category yet. I'm building humadroid.io (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance platform, based in Poland) and as far as I can tell, there aren't many European alternatives in this space. Most of the established players (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) are US-based. Would be great to see this category added.

Interesting, do you also provide the actual audit for ISO 27001 as part of your service? That’s why I went with Oneleet, but a EU-based solution would be attractive.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

Notch123 wrote: post #221
vldszn wrote: post #59

I submitted my project EasyInvoicePDF (a free & open-source invoice generator) a couple of months ago to European Alternatives but never heard back unfortunately. The project has no backend and is purely browser-based, but I’m based in Europe and developing the project here, so I consider it a European project =) App: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

I have been working on https://1launch.eu for the past two months. Very MVP stage. I don't plan to be in the same niche as european-alternatives, but it is very much inspired by this. It is largely meant to be a ProductHunt / AngelList for Europe with a couple of key features especially for the European market (like instant translation into all 24 languages of the EU to launch in the whole European market in one go).…

Do you have a plan or idea of how to get the minimum critical mass of genuine users once the platform is built out?

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by palata »

atmosx wrote: post #170
jacquesm wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but the cost-to-switch is more important right now than the details, the bigger fear I have is that if such an EU alternative is successful that the US incumbents will swoop in and buy it and then you're back to square 1. That has happened quite a few times already.

And the EU governments will be advertising it.. already happened in Greece… few companies with strong core tech were bought by Microsoft and the gov was “so happy” for the “success story”. Everybody and their mother is using Gmail anyway

> Everybody and their mother is using Gmail anyway

Though that's one of the easy ones. Get your own domain and you're free to use whatever you want forever.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by palata »

atmosx wrote: post #173
toomuchtodo wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a mechanism the EU could use to inhibit acquisition by a non EU entity?

It’s not a matter of mechanism. It’s a matter of mindset. Until today the mindset wasn’t there. Maybe this will change.

I'm not convinced. If a company owner can get rich by selling their company to the devil himself, they will rationalise it so well that the employees will think it's helping humanity.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

What are some non-subjective reasons to use Euro alternatives? It reminds me of startup founders having to choose between the big expensive service or their buddy’s startup that intends to serve the same use case.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by pronik »

mpol wrote: post #224
202508042147 wrote: post #174

One obvious thing missing from any of those lists: Visa and Mastercard alternatives. This is the protection money that is never brought up by the US officials when they say that America was paying for our security.

Wero is coming. Currently it is only available in a few countries.

And within those countries in only a handful of banks. We've been here before, but as of right now, I'd give it a better chance than I'd have given just four months ago.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by mpaepper »

e38383 wrote: post #233
vldszn wrote: post #59

I submitted my project EasyInvoicePDF (a free & open-source invoice generator) a couple of months ago to European Alternatives but never heard back unfortunately. The project has no backend and is purely browser-based, but I’m based in Europe and developing the project here, so I consider it a European project =) App: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

You probably need to include EN16931, XRechnung, Factur-X, ZUGFeRD, … and how they all called, the new standard for electronic invoices.

Free generator for e-invoices here: https://www.e-rechnung-online-erstellen.de/kostenlos/e-rechn...

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by direwolf20 »

nickdothutton wrote: post #254
mejutoco wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hertzner?

I'm a happy customer of Hetzner, but AWS revenues are 440x theirs. Not much of a castle.

Why do you want to be a customer of a company with extreme revenue? That only means you'll pay too much money.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by pixelpoet »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #256

What are some non-subjective reasons to use Euro alternatives? It reminds me of startup founders having to choose between the big expensive service or their buddy’s startup that intends to serve the same use case.

If you're European and reading the news at any point in the last year+, you understand how critical a weakness being dependent on US companies for your IT infra is.

There are some things that are difficult to avoid, like CPUs and GPUs, but software is much more doable.

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