Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderIn this thread I've seen - https://altstack.jp for Japan - https://worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alternatives for Canada - and ofc https://european-alternatives.eu/ for the EU But I just wanted to point out that https://alternativeto.net/ recently (well, over a year ago) added a flag next to each suggestion so you can easily tell where its from. It's all crowd-sourced and I've both contributed to and greatly benefited from the project myself (especially for finding FLOSS alternatives to popular software). Here's an…
So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? Is it market fragmentation? Languages? Is it capital allocation related problems? I feel that the ability to bootstrap projects in all the large EU countries is way harder than the US, or smaller euro ones (like the Netherlands or Estonia). In Spain for example, the cost of something similar of an LLC is way higher than in the US, not to mention that you have…
https://european-alternatives.eu/about --- Conditions for a listing All the products and services listed on European Alternatives meet the following criteria: The company is based in an EU, EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA member country. If the company has a parent or holding company, this company is also based in an EU, EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA member state. For hosting providers: It is not allowed that a hosting provider is simply a sub-hosting provider of a company that is not based in an…
Popular in 2021 (357 points, 248 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627097
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1388
- Total comments
- 847
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-20 | European alternatives for digital productsFirst breakout | s_dev | 357 | 235 |
| 2023-04-06 | European Alternatives | s_dev | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-09-06 | European Alternatives for Digital Products | s_dev | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-05-19 | European Alternatives | s_dev | 3 | 1 |
| 2024-06-16 | European Alternatives | lijunhao | 196 | 95 |
| 2026-01-03 | European alternatives to US-based servicesHall induction | Flundstrom2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-01-05 | European Alternatives for Digital Products | kawera | 9 | 2 |
| 2026-01-16 | European Alternatives for Digital Products | memset | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-01-23 | European AlternativesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | s_dev | 810 | 512 |