The EuroMakers Journal
European ideas,worth reading.
Practical guides for choosing excellent software made across Europe.
Cryptomator Mounts a Vault the Host Cannot Open
Desktop is free. You put a password on a folder in the cloud you already pay for. Cryptomator mounts a virtual drive. Files and filenames leave as AES-256. Hub brokers keys. It does not sell storage.
HansaChat Can Open the Workspace
German company chat from €39 a workspace, not a seat. Threads, Google SSO, calls, Slack-compatible export. Hosted on IONOS. Not end-to-end: the operator can open the workspace. That is how the software is built.
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.