The EuroMakers Journal
European software,up close.
Deep dives into products made in Europe, stories from the makers behind them and guides you can use today.
Rankdelta's keys still say AstroSEO
Swiss SEO suite: GEO for ChatGPT traffic, a Site Explorer, a writer, from $29. They call the index an estimate. The FAQ sells open source you can self-host. There is no public repo. API keys still start with sk_astroseo_.
Firma.dev sells envelopes, not seats
Fifty envelopes are €2.45. There is no seat. The PDFs are promised in AWS Paris. The company on the contract is a Delaware LLC.
Heute is an agenda, not a timetable
Structured wants a start time and a duration. Heute, from a Berlin psychologist on Griebenowstraße, shows what's coming without asking how long everything takes. The day lives in SQLite on the phone.
Proton chose the hardware
A midnight filter swap in Frankfurt took Mail, VPN, Drive, and Pass down together. Proton's on-call powered the servers off first. Primary databases do not fail over without a person.
Stelae runs on a single machine
Leon Becker's WordPress editor in Türkheim sleeps when you stop typing. The public beta lasts until 31 October 2026. Then €19.90 a year, no grandfathering — because one person on one host is the product.
Germany paid to keep VLC on Windows XP
The orange button on videolan.org still ships VLC 3.0.23. The release notes credit Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund — and they still list Windows XP.