Comment by vldszn

1 month ago

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

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s_dev  1 month ago

It's a cool project but it is 'niche'.

I think the purpose of the site is more about the alternatives to 'large players', platforms and infrastructure companies. Still Constantin Graf should have clarified out of politeness but possibly he's busy or doesn't have time to respond to every email.

However I'd point out there is a market for European 'Product Hunt' that would include more of these smaller projects.

  • carlosjobim  1 month ago

    I don't think creating an invoice is "niche". It is such a common need for users that invoicing software should be included in the operating system application suite. (Which it is somewhat if you consider Pages invoice templates).

    Millions and millions of people need to make and send invoices. Many more than people who need domain name registrars, uptime monitoring services, content delivery networks, or microblogging services.

  • vldszn  1 month ago

    Thanks for the comment. I hadn’t thought about this before, but it makes sense - I agree.

    About European Product Hunt - very good idea.

    I was thinking recently that we need more European social networks, messengers, etc.

    It’s a very good time to build imo =)

    • embedding-shape  1 month ago

      > About European Product Hunt - very good idea.

      Older members of HN will remember that Product Hunt probably came to life a lot because of HN and the submissions/comments from rrhoover (founder of Product Hunt). He's still active here, but before/during Product Hunt launch he was very active if I remember correctly.

      Maybe a grander idea is a European Hacker News, that has the potential to spawn the European Product Hunts of tomorrow :)

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reconnecting  1 month ago

Same here.

Open-source security framework (1). Applied 16 August 2025. Company registered in Switzerland (EFTA). No reply.

However, European Alternatives is a personal (sole proprietorship) website and has nothing to do with Europe, despite the name and style, which are slightly misleading as they mimic official EU website aesthetics.

1. GitHub: https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno

Notch123  1 month ago

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). If you want to launch on the platform or want to be involved in a different way, send me an email on hackernews@1launch.eu

quicksilver03  1 month ago

I've seen the same thing, the site accepts submissions but there's no one to either approve or reject them.

Unfortunately they did really well at SEO at one time, and more active alternatives appear far below in the search results.

cocoto  1 month ago

I think the biggest issue is that your product is not from a company generating money (and taxes). IMO as an european, I think we should aim for open source, not corporate software, but free and open source software is generating way less jobs and taxes money.

  • badsectoracula  1 month ago

    The site has a lot of open source projects though, in fact i found about copyparty[0] from it because it was listed as an alternative to file hosting services (though it was removed since then, probably because it isn't a service :-P but still there are various FLOSS projects).

    [0] https://github.com/9001/copyparty

  • vldszn  1 month ago

    Yes, make sense.

    I plan to add a paid “pro” version with more features, but the current functionality will remain free.