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.
How to choose a European encrypted messenger you will keep opening
A practical guide to European pocket messengers — Threema and Olvid — based on how trust starts: a Swiss ID you buy once, or a French invitation that protects metadata, not only message bodies.
How to choose European analytics when traffic dashboards are not enough
A practical guide to the analytics neighbours beside Plausible and Matomo — Pirsch for cookie-free German site craft, OpenPanel for Norwegian product analytics, and Piwik PRO when larger organisations need governed measurement.
How to choose European analytics for the ownership job you have
A practical sequel to our web analytics guide — Plausible, Simple Analytics, and Matomo as sibling ownership jobs: minimal hosted dashboard, campaign-ready hosted insights, or a stack you run yourself.
How to choose a European daily planner that respects your day
A practical guide to European day planning — Heute, Morgen, and Amie — based on whether you need a calm personal timeline, an AI planning cockpit, or one joyful surface for calendar, tasks, and mail.
How to choose European search, delivery, and observability tools
After the product exists, three jobs still break weeks: findability, the delivery platform, and what you can see in production. A practical guide to Meilisearch, Algolia, Elastic, GitLab, and Grafana.
How to choose European project rooms your team will actually open
Project rooms are not notes, forms, or personal task lists. A practical guide to Stackfield — and how to tell secure German collaboration from neighbouring Productivity tools.