YTD, they have already seen 1.1M unique visitors, compared to just 0.3M in all of 2024.
They’ve also opened up their analytics data here: https://plausible.io/european-alternatives.eu
Americans are largely unaware about what's happening in the rest of the world. Reelecting Trump means very few countries will trust the US anymore. Electing him once, ok, a fluke. Twice? The system is rotten and unstable.
I'm fairly sure Ukraine, Canada, Panama, Denmark and the EU as a whole, they're all turning from US allies to indiferent at best. People are actively looking for non US products where they can.
Trump, like Putin, will probably be remembered as the gravedigger for his country.
Does Russian count as ‘European’ alternative?
The Russian web shows an interesting alternate universe where western copyright is not a thing.
If the war leads to the downfall of Russia, I worry that the last vestiges of the ‘free’ internet that helps billions of people in third world countries access content will be gone forever.
It’s already partially the case with a good fraction of servers in Ukraine gone.
Can I find a non-US HN like news forum where I can find interesting news or comments aboout technologies?
This is just shifting your eggs from one basket into another. Yes, the current basket is on fire but we should assume any basket can be lit on fire just as easily.
I’d love to see somebody nail the UX of distributed compute in your home that you own. A box I can buy that is similar UX to managing a SaaS account after plugging it into my router, with automatic management, updates, encrypted backup across cloud providers, and an App Store for services I can install on this appliance that gives self-hosted apps a means to monetize. Then scale that foundation up to business needs and really profit.
These ideas have existed before but IMO nobody nailed the UX and most people didn’t believe we’d light our own basket on fire for fun back then, so the market wasn’t there.
What's telling from their analytics is that this isn't just a knee-jerk reaction - the engagement metrics show people seriously evaluating options rather than panic-clicking (spending almost 3 minutes on the website).
I'm particularly curious which sectors are seeing the most interest - cloud services? Productivity tools? Communication platforms? That data could help prioritize where European companies should focus innovation efforts.