Results for “France”

Amazon 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The everything store, and everyone's competitor.

• bol The Benelux marketplace, roughly Amazon's local equivalent. 🇳🇱
• OTTO Hamburg's century-old retailer, now Germany's number two marketplace. 🇩🇪
• Allegro Poland's dominant marketplace, older than Amazon itself. 🇵🇱
• Alza Czech electronics and general retailer across Central Europe. 🇨🇿

iRobot Roomba & Shark 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American robot vacuums that map your home.

• Vorwerk Kobold Wuppertal since 1883, sold door to door and repaired for decades. 🇩🇪
• Kärcher Winnenden. The yellow machines, and a robot range. 🇩🇪
• Miele Scout Gütersloh, built to the same twenty-year standard. 🇩🇪
• Rowenta Groupe SEB, France. 🇫🇷

eBay 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The original auction house, now mostly buy-it-now.

• Vinted Vilnius-built second-hand fashion, now Europe's biggest resale app. 🇱🇹
• willhaben Austria's classifieds giant for everything from bikes to flats. 🇦🇹
• leboncoin France's dominant classifieds platform. 🇫🇷
• Bazos Czech no-frills classifieds, wildly popular and free. 🇨🇿

YouTube 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The world's video archive, with an ad break in the middle.

• PeerTube Federated, self-hostable video; instances share load via peer-to-peer. 🇫🇷
• Dailymotion France's long-running video platform, owned by Vivendi. 🇫🇷
• ARTE Franco-German public broadcaster with a huge free documentary catalogue. 🇫🇷

Nike & Under Armour 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Oregon and Baltimore, worn by most of Europe.

• adidas Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. The three stripes. 🇩🇪
• PUMA The same town, founded by the other brother. 🇩🇪
• Hummel Danish since 1923, and unusually vocal about ethics. 🇩🇰
• Joma Toledo, Spain. Football kit across southern Europe. 🇪🇸

Tesla & Ford 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American cars on European roads.

• Volkswagen Wolfsburg. ID series for electric. 🇩🇪
• BMW Munich. 🇩🇪
• Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart. 🇩🇪
• Renault Boulogne-Billancourt. The R5 E-Tech is built in France. 🇫🇷

Zoom 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The verb that ate video conferencing.

• Tixeo The only video conferencing tool certified and qualified by France's ANSSI. 🇫🇷
• alfaview German conferencing built for hundreds of simultaneous participants. 🇩🇪
• Livestorm Paris-built browser-based webinars and meetings. 🇫🇷
• Nextcloud Talk Meetings hosted on your own server, no accounts for guests. 🇩🇪

Microsoft Azure 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The enterprise cloud that came with the licence agreement.

• OVHcloud Full IaaS/PaaS stack with sovereign options in France and Germany. 🇫🇷
• IONOS Cloud German cloud with predictable pricing and EU-only operations. 🇩🇪
• StackIT Built for German enterprises with strict data residency needs. 🇩🇪
• Scaleway French cloud with a strong Kubernetes and serverless story. 🇫🇷

Trek, Specialized & Cannondale 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American bikes, in the continent that races them.

• Canyon Koblenz. Direct-to-consumer, which is why the prices work. 🇩🇪
• Cube Waldershof, Bavaria. 🇩🇪
• Bianchi Treviglio, 1885 — the oldest bicycle maker still in production. 🇮🇹
• Pinarello Treviso. Tour de France winners. 🇮🇹

Away & Tumi 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American suitcases with a marketing budget.

• RIMOWA Cologne since 1898. The grooved aluminium case. 🇩🇪
• Delsey Paris since 1946. 🇫🇷
• Roncato Padua, family-owned, made in Italy. 🇮🇹
• TITAN German, part of Bavarian maker Schaumann. 🇩🇪

Tommy Hilfiger & Calvin Klein 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two brands, one New York parent company.

• BOSS Metzingen, Germany. 🇩🇪
• Tiger of Sweden Stockholm tailoring. 🇸🇪
• Sandro Paris. 🇫🇷
• Lacoste French heritage, now under Swiss-based MF Brands. 🇨🇭

Victoria's Secret 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

An American brand with a complicated decade.

• Hunkemöller Amsterdam since 1886, Europe's largest lingerie chain. 🇳🇱
• Triumph Bad Zurzach, founded in Germany 1886. 🇨🇭
• sloggi Same group, and the everyday European default. 🇨🇭
• Etam Paris since 1916. 🇫🇷

Slack 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Workplace chat, owned by Salesforce, priced per person per month.

• Element London-based Matrix client used by the French and German governments. 🇬🇧
• Stackfield Munich team collaboration with end-to-end encryption, German servers. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Talk Chat and calls built into your own Nextcloud. 🇩🇪
• Twake French open-source Slack-style workspace. 🇫🇷

AutoCAD 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The DWG format is the lock-in.

• BricsCAD Ghent-built CAD that reads and writes DWG natively; perpetual licences. 🇧🇪
• Archicad Budapest's Graphisoft, the original BIM authoring tool. 🇭🇺
• Allplan Nemetschek's Munich BIM suite for architecture and engineering. 🇩🇪
• CATIA / SOLIDWORKS Dassault Systemes' French engineering platform. 🇫🇷

Sonos / Bose 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Speakers that need an app, an account and a firmware update.

• Teufel Berlin direct-sale speakers with a cult following and honest pricing. 🇩🇪
• Bang & Olufsen Danish design audio with genuinely long product support. 🇩🇰
• Devialet French amplification and speaker engineering. 🇫🇷
• Loewe German audio and television, built in Kronach. 🇩🇪

Firebase 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Backend-as-a-service, backed by Google's roadmap.

• Aiven Helsinki-run managed Postgres, Kafka, Redis and more, in any EU region. 🇫🇮
• Clever Cloud Managed databases and add-ons alongside your app. 🇫🇷
• Nhost Swedish open-source Firebase alternative on Postgres and GraphQL. 🇸🇪
• Scaleway Managed Postgres, serverless SQL and object storage. 🇫🇷

Mailchimp 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Newsletters, now an Intuit product.

• Brevo French email, SMS and automation platform with EU-only hosting. 🇫🇷
• CleverReach German newsletter tool built around GDPR from the start. 🇩🇪
• MailerLite Vilnius-built, clean editor, very good free tier. 🇱🇹
• rapidmail Freiburg newsletter service with German servers and support. 🇩🇪

Hasbro & Mattel 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Rhode Island and California own the toy aisle.

• LEGO Billund, family-owned, and the largest toy company on earth. 🇩🇰
• Playmobil Zirndorf, Bavaria, since 1974. 🇩🇪
• Ravensburger Puzzles and board games since 1883. 🇩🇪
• Schleich Hand-painted figures, Schwäbisch Gmünd. 🇩🇪

TikTok 🇨🇳 CN · non-EU

Short video, long recommendation engine.

• PeerTube Framasoft's federated video platform; short-form channels included. 🇫🇷
• Dailymotion French video platform with a mobile short-video feed. 🇫🇷

Notion 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The everything-document, stored on someone else's everything-server.

• Zenkit Karlsruhe suite of docs, tables, boards and mind maps. 🇩🇪
• Nuclino Berlin-built fast, lightweight team wiki. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Notes & Deck Notes, kanban and files on infrastructure you own. 🇩🇪
• CryptPad Encrypted docs, kanban and whiteboards, no account required. 🇫🇷

Netflix 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Streaming's incumbent, now with adverts.

• MUBI London-based curated arthouse cinema, hand-picked rather than algorithmic. 🇬🇧
• ARTE Free, ad-free European culture, documentaries and drama. 🇫🇷
• Filmin Spanish independent and European film streaming. 🇪🇸
• Viaplay Nordic streaming with strong Scandinavian originals and sport. 🇸🇪

Stripe 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The developer's payment API, incorporated in Delaware.

• Mollie The closest European equivalent for developer experience. 🇳🇱
• Adyen Enterprise-grade, unified across online, in-app and in-store. 🇳🇱
• Worldline French payment giant covering acquiring across the whole EU. 🇫🇷
• Nexi Italian paytech, dominant in southern Europe. 🇮🇹

Coursera / Udemy 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Learning platforms with US course economics.

• OpenClassrooms French platform with state-recognised diplomas and apprenticeships. 🇫🇷
• FutureLearn UK platform founded by the Open University. 🇬🇧
• openHPI Hasso Plattner Institute's free German MOOCs on IT and digital health. 🇩🇪
• GoodHabitz Dutch corporate training in 20+ European languages. 🇳🇱

Gerber & Beech-Nut 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American baby food.

• HiPP Pfaffenhofen. Organic since 1956, and stricter than the EU requires. 🇩🇪
• Holle Swiss demeter-certified biodynamic baby food since 1933. 🇨🇭
• Bebivita German, same quality controls as HiPP at lower prices. 🇩🇪
• Babybio French organic, made in Brittany. 🇫🇷

The North Face, Columbia & Patagonia 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American outdoor gear, on European mountains.

• Fjällräven Örnsköldsvik, 1960. G-1000 fabric, waxed not coated. 🇸🇪
• Jack Wolfskin Idstein, Germany. 🇩🇪
• VAUDE Tettnang. Climate-neutral in Germany, and audited about it. 🇩🇪
• Norrøna Norwegian since 1929, family-owned, lifetime warranty. 🇳🇴

3M Post-it & Sharpie 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Minnesota and Atlanta own the desk drawer.

• STABILO Heroldsberg. The BOSS highlighter is the original. 🇩🇪
• STAEDTLER Nuremberg, 1835. Still makes pencils in Germany. 🇩🇪
• Faber-Castell Stein, family-owned since 1761. 🇩🇪
• LAMY Heidelberg. The Safari fountain pen. 🇩🇪

Philadelphia & Kraft cheese 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American processed cheese, in the dairy aisle of Europe.

• Almette Hochland, Bavaria. Whipped, and much lighter. 🇩🇪
• Exquisa Karwendel, Bavarian family dairy since 1932. 🇩🇪
• Buko Danish cream cheese from Arla, the farmer-owned cooperative. 🇩🇰
• Boursin Normandy garlic-and-herb, invented 1957. 🇫🇷

Campbell's 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The soup can Warhol painted.

• Erasco Lübeck since 1931 — the German soup standard. 🇩🇪
• Maggi Swiss since 1872; the seasoning bottle is a European fixture. 🇨🇭
• Vitana Czech soups and seasonings since 1902. 🇨🇿
• Liebig French soups, part of Continental Foods. 🇫🇷

Casper & Tempur 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Bed-in-a-box, American edition.

• Emma Frankfurt. Europe's biggest direct-to-consumer mattress brand. 🇩🇪
• bett1 BODYGUARD Berlin, and repeatedly Stiftung Warentest's top pick. 🇩🇪
• Dormeo Slovenian, sold across central Europe. 🇸🇮
• Hypnia French, made in Europe, 120-night trial. 🇫🇷

Google Workspace 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Mail, docs and drive for companies, hosted entirely by Google.

• Nextcloud Self-hosted or EU-hosted files, docs, talk, calendar and mail. 🇩🇪
• Open-Xchange Cologne groupware powering many European ISP mail platforms. 🇩🇪
• Twake Workplace LINAGORA's French open-source workplace suite. 🇫🇷
• Infomaniak kSuite Swiss full workplace suite (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

DocuSign 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Signatures in the cloud, evidence in San Francisco.

• Yousign French eIDAS-qualified signature provider, data stored in the EU. 🇫🇷
• Namirial Italian qualified trust service provider across the EU. 🇮🇹
• Dokobit Lithuanian signing that speaks every Baltic and Nordic eID. 🇱🇹
• Signaturit Spanish qualified electronic signature and identification. 🇪🇸

Steam 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

PC gaming's storefront, and its DRM.

• GOG CD Projekt's Warsaw store: DRM-free, the games are actually yours. 🇵🇱
• Gamesplanet UK/German retailer selling legitimate keys, often cheaper. 🇬🇧
• Instant Gaming French game key retailer with strong European pricing. 🇫🇷
• Green Man Gaming London-based official key retailer. 🇬🇧

ChatGPT 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The assistant that made everyone an AI company.

• Le Chat (Mistral AI) Paris-built frontier models; open-weight options and EU hosting. 🇫🇷
• Aleph Alpha Heidelberg models aimed at sovereign and public-sector deployments. 🇩🇪
• LightOn French enterprise generative AI, deployable on premises. 🇫🇷
• Nebius AI Studio Amsterdam-based inference platform for open models. 🇳🇱

Vercel / Netlify 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Deploy in seconds, receive an invoice in dollars.

• Clever Cloud Nantes PaaS: git push, it deploys, it stays in the EU. 🇫🇷
• Platform.sh French PaaS with per-branch preview environments. 🇫🇷
• Northflank London platform for containers, jobs and databases. 🇬🇧
• Scaleway Serverless French serverless containers and functions. 🇫🇷

QuickBooks 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Intuit's books, with US tax logic bolted on.

• Sage Newcastle-founded accounting, the European incumbent for SMEs. 🇬🇧
• Odoo Accounting Open-source accounting with localisations for most EU countries. 🇧🇪
• Pennylane French accounting platform built with accountants, not against them. 🇫🇷
• Fortnox Sweden's dominant cloud accounting platform. 🇸🇪

Patreon / Buy Me a Coffee 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Fan funding, with a US platform between you and your supporters.

• Steady Berlin membership platform built for European publishers and creators. 🇩🇪
• Tipeee French tipping and membership platform. 🇫🇷
• Liberapay French non-profit recurring donations; it takes no cut at all. 🇫🇷

HubSpot 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Free CRM, expensive marketing hub.

• Brevo Paris marketing and CRM platform with EU data residency. 🇫🇷
• Efficy European CRM with marketing automation built in. 🇧🇪
• Odoo CRM, marketing, invoicing and site builder in one open suite. 🇧🇪
• weclapp German all-in-one for sales, stock and invoicing. 🇩🇪

Zendesk 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Support tickets as a subscription.

• Zammad German open-source helpdesk; self-host or use the EU cloud. 🇩🇪
• OTRS Long-established German service-management platform. 🇩🇪
• Userlike Cologne live chat and messaging built for GDPR compliance. 🇩🇪
• Crisp Nantes-built customer messaging with a generous free plan. 🇫🇷

Dasani & Aquafina 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Bottled tap water with an American logo on it.

• Gerolsteiner Volcanic Eifel spring, exceptionally mineral-rich. 🇩🇪
• Mattoni Karlovy Vary mineral water, Czech since 1873. 🇨🇿
• Evian Filtered for fifteen years through the French Alps. 🇫🇷
• San Pellegrino The sparkling one from Lombardy. 🇮🇹

Jira 🇦🇺 AU · non-EU

Issue tracking that becomes the process.

• OpenProject Berlin open-source project management; classic, agile and Gantt. 🇩🇪
• Tuleap French ALM suite covering requirements, tracking, code and test. 🇫🇷
• YouTrack JetBrains' Prague-built issue tracker, self-hostable. 🇨🇿
• Taiga Lightweight agile boards and backlogs. 🇪🇸

Send Anywhere / WeTransfer clones 🇰🇷 KR · non-EU

Big-file transfer through servers you know nothing about.

• WeTransfer The Amsterdam original, still the nicest way to send 2 GB. 🇳🇱
• Smash French transfer service with no size limit. 🇫🇷
• TransferNow French file transfer with password protection and EU hosting. 🇫🇷
• SwissTransfer Free 50 GB transfers from Infomaniak (outside the default EU scope). 🇨🇭

GoDaddy 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Domains, plus eleven upsells before checkout.

• Gandi French registrar since 1999, no bullshit, free SSL and mailboxes. 🇫🇷
• INWX German registrar with excellent API and 300+ TLDs. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Domains, DNS and hosting from Europe's largest hoster. 🇫🇷
• Hostinger Lithuanian registrar and hoster with aggressive pricing. 🇱🇹

Amazon Kindle 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

E-books you licence rather than own.

• tolino German bookseller alliance's reader; open EPUB, buy from any member shop. 🇩🇪
• Vivlio French e-reader and store backed by independent booksellers. 🇫🇷
• Legimi Polish subscription with its own hardware. 🇵🇱

Canva 🇦🇺 AU · non-EU

Design for people who do not design.

• Penpot Spanish open-source design and prototyping in the browser. 🇪🇸
• Photoroom French AI-assisted design for social and product imagery. 🇫🇷
• Freepik Malaga stock, templates and AI generation in one subscription. 🇪🇸
• Linearity Curve Berlin design tool with templates and animation. 🇩🇪

iPhone / Samsung Galaxy 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Premium phones, none of them made here.

• Fairphone Amsterdam-built modular, repairable phone with an 8-year support promise. 🇳🇱
• HMD Espoo-based maker of Nokia phones, including repairable models. 🇫🇮
• SHIFTPHONE German repairable phones with a deposit-return scheme. 🇩🇪
• Nothing London design-led Android phones. 🇬🇧

Headspace / Calm 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Mindfulness by subscription, mental-health data abroad.

• 7Mind Berlin meditation app, partly reimbursed by German health insurers. 🇩🇪
• Petit BamBou French meditation with the largest francophone library. 🇫🇷
• Balloon German guided meditation and sleep courses. 🇩🇪
• Meditopia Istanbul-built meditation in 10+ languages. 🇹🇷

Heinz & Hellmann's-style US condiments 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Pittsburgh decides what ketchup tastes like.

• Hela Ahrensburg. Curry ketchup is a German food group and Hela invented the good one. 🇩🇪
• Develey Bavarian family mustard and ketchup house since 1845. 🇩🇪
• Bautz'ner Saxon mustard. Eastern Germany will accept no substitute. 🇩🇪
• Amora Dijon mustard and French mayonnaise. 🇫🇷

McDonald's & Burger King 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two American burger chains on every European high street.

• Hesburger Finland's own, and it beats McDonald's at home. The mayonnaise is the point. 🇫🇮
• MAX Burgers Swedish, climate-labels every item on the menu. 🇸🇪
• Quick The Franco-Belgian chain, since 1971. 🇫🇷
• Bembos See Goiko — Madrid-born burger chain now across Spain. 🇪🇸

WhatsApp 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Encrypted messages, unencrypted metadata, owned by Meta.

• Olvid French messenger with no server-side directory at all; certified by ANSSI. 🇫🇷
• Element Matrix messaging with encrypted DMs and no phone number required. 🇬🇧
• Wire Berlin-based encrypted messenger, popular in the public sector. 🇩🇪
• Delta Chat Chat over ordinary email; works with any mailbox, no new account. 🇩🇪

Google Docs 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Collaborative documents in exchange for total content visibility.

• CryptPad Zero-knowledge collaborative editing -- the server cannot read your document. 🇫🇷
• ONLYOFFICE Docs Collaborative editor you can self-host or use in the EU cloud. 🇱🇻
• Collabora Online Multi-user LibreOffice editing, deployable on your own hardware. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Office Docs inside your own Nextcloud, with the same share links you already use. 🇩🇪

Google Search 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ninety percent of European search, one American company.

• Qwant French search with its own crawler; no tracking, no profiling. 🇫🇷
• Ecosia Berlin non-profit; ad revenue plants trees. Now builds its own index with Qwant. 🇩🇪
• Startpage Dutch anonymised search, plus a proxy that opens results privately. 🇳🇱
• Mojeek Brighton-built independent crawler and index -- genuinely not a Bing wrapper. 🇬🇧

Google Translate 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Good enough translation, at the cost of sending the text abroad.

• DeepL Cologne-built translator widely rated more accurate for European languages. 🇩🇪
• Reverso French translation with real-world example sentences and conjugation. 🇫🇷
• Lingvanex Cyprus-based translation with fully offline on-premises deployment. 🇨🇾

Shopify 🇨🇦 CA · non-EU

The easiest way to build a shop you do not own.

• Shopware German e-commerce platform used across European mid-market retail. 🇩🇪
• PrestaShop French open-source shop software with a huge module ecosystem. 🇫🇷
• Spryker Berlin headless commerce for complex B2B and B2C models. 🇩🇪
• Sylius Polish Symfony-based headless commerce framework. 🇵🇱

Coca-Cola & Pepsi 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The two colas that colonised every fridge on the continent.

• Kofola The Czech cola that outsells Coke on draught at home. Less sweet, more herbal. 🇨🇿
• Fritz-kola Hamburg-born, high caffeine, sold on stubbornness rather than advertising. 🇩🇪
• afri-cola German cola since 1931, back to its original recipe. 🇩🇪
• Cockta Slovenian since 1953, made with rosehip and eleven herbs. No caffeine, no phosphoric acid. 🇸🇮

Celestial Seasonings & Bigelow 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American herbal tea.

• Teekanne Düsseldorf since 1882, and it invented the tea bag as we know it. 🇩🇪
• Yogi Tea Hamburg-based, organic ayurvedic blends. 🇩🇪
• SONNENTOR Waldviertel, Austria. Organic, and unusually transparent about growers. 🇦🇹
• Pukka Bristol organic herbal teas, B-Corp certified. 🇬🇧

Procter & Gamble cleaning brands 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ariel, Fairy, Lenor, Flash — one Cincinnati company.

• Henkel (Persil) Düsseldorf since 1876. Persil, Pril, Somat, Bref. 🇩🇪
• Frosch Werner & Mertz, Mainz. Recycled bottles, plant-based surfactants. 🇩🇪
• Ecover Malle, Belgium. The original green cleaning brand. 🇧🇪
• Sonett Baden-Württemberg, fully biodegradable, no enzymes. 🇩🇪

Goodyear & Bridgestone 🇺🇸🇯🇵 US · JP · non-EU

American and Japanese rubber on European roads.

• Michelin Clermont-Ferrand since 1889, and it invented the radial tyre. 🇫🇷
• Continental Hanover since 1871. 🇩🇪
• Nokian Tyres Nokia, Finland — it invented the winter tyre in 1934. 🇫🇮
• Semperit Austrian, since 1824. 🇦🇹

Yankee Candle & Bath & Body Works 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American scented candles, in paraffin.

• ipuro German home fragrance, widely stocked and inexpensive. 🇩🇪
• Diptyque Paris, boulevard Saint-Germain, since 1961. 🇫🇷
• Cire Trudon Founded 1643. It supplied candles to Versailles. 🇫🇷
• Millefiori Milano Milan diffusers and candles. 🇮🇹

Microsoft 365 / Office 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Word, Excel and friends, now rented rather than owned.

• LibreOffice The Document Foundation's free desktop suite; opens and saves Microsoft formats. 🇩🇪
• ONLYOFFICE Riga-built suite with the best OOXML fidelity of the open-source options. 🇱🇻
• Collabora Online Cambridge-based LibreOffice-in-the-browser, self-hostable. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Office Documents, files and collaboration on your own server. 🇩🇪

GitHub Copilot 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Your codebase, autocompleted through Redmond.

• Codestral (Mistral) French code model with a self-hostable open-weight release. 🇫🇷
• Continue + Mistral Open editor extension pointed at an EU model endpoint. 🇫🇷

OpenAI API 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The API every startup built on before reading the terms.

• Mistral AI OpenAI-compatible API, open-weight models, EU data residency. 🇫🇷
• Aleph Alpha German models with explainability features for regulated sectors. 🇩🇪
• Nebius AI Studio EU GPU capacity and hosted open models at low cost. 🇳🇱
• OVHcloud AI Endpoints French sovereign cloud serving open models. 🇫🇷

Amazon Web Services 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The default cloud, and the default lock-in.

• Hetzner German servers at prices that make US clouds look like a rounding error. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Europe's largest hoster, with full sovereign-cloud offerings. 🇫🇷
• Scaleway French cloud with managed Kubernetes, object storage and GPUs. 🇫🇷
• IONOS Cloud German enterprise cloud with ISO-certified EU data centres. 🇩🇪

Uber 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ride-hailing, and a long European court record.

• Bolt Tallinn-built ride-hailing, scooters and food across 45 countries. 🇪🇪
• FREENOW Hamburg platform that mostly dispatches licensed taxis. 🇩🇪
• Heetch French ride-hailing focused on the suburbs the others skip. 🇫🇷
• Liftago Czech taxi app with transparent driver pricing. 🇨🇿

Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena & Olay 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American skincare, in a continent full of pharmacies.

• NIVEA Beiersdorf, Hamburg, 1911. The blue tin. 🇩🇪
• La Roche-Posay French thermal spring water, dermatologist-standard. 🇫🇷
• Avène Pierre Fabre, made at the spring in the Cévennes. 🇫🇷
• Bioderma Lyon. Sensibio micellar water is the category original. 🇫🇷

Instant Pot & Crock-Pot 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

American countertop cooking.

• Krups Solingen, now part of Groupe SEB. 🇩🇪
• Tefal French, and the inventor of the non-stick pan. 🇫🇷
• WMF Geislingen since 1853. Pressure cookers that outlive their owners. 🇩🇪
• Moulinex French, the Cookeo is the direct Instant Pot rival. 🇫🇷

Apple Music / Amazon Music 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Streaming bundled into a hardware ecosystem.

• Deezer Paris streaming, and the first to pilot artist-centric royalties. 🇫🇷
• Qobuz French hi-res audio streaming and purchase, best-in-class sound quality. 🇫🇷
• IDAGIO Berlin service built properly for classical music. 🇩🇪
• Spotify Stockholm-built and still the largest European tech consumer product. 🇸🇪

Midjourney 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Beautiful images, opaque training data.

• Black Forest Labs (FLUX) Freiburg team behind FLUX; open weights for the smaller models. 🇩🇪
• Stability AI London-based, publishes open image models. 🇬🇧
• Photoroom Paris AI image editing built for product and e-commerce photography. 🇫🇷
• Freepik AI Malaga-based generation bundled with a licensed stock library. 🇪🇸

Ring / Nest cameras 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Doorbell footage, stored in Seattle.

• Bosch Smart Home German smart home with local processing and EU cloud. 🇩🇪
• Netatmo French cameras and sensors that store footage locally by default. 🇫🇷
• Homematic IP eQ-3's German system, VDE-certified, works fully offline. 🇩🇪
• Ajax Systems Kyiv-built professional alarm and security systems. 🇺🇦

Fitbit / Apple Watch 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Continuous health data, exported continuously.

• Withings Paris health devices: watches, scales, blood pressure, EU data hosting. 🇫🇷
• Polar Finnish sports watches; the company that invented the heart rate monitor. 🇫🇮
• Suunto Finnish outdoor and dive watches with serious navigation. 🇫🇮

Android / iOS 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Two American companies, one duopoly, every European pocket.

• /e/OS by Murena French de-Googled Android, shipped on phones you can just buy. 🇫🇷
• Sailfish OS Jolla's Finnish mobile OS, with EU sovereignty as an explicit goal. 🇫🇮
• Ubuntu Touch UBports Foundation's convergent mobile Linux. 🇳🇱
• postmarketOS German-led project keeping old phones alive on real Linux. 🇩🇪

Converse, Vans & New Balance 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The casual sneaker canon, all American-owned.

• VEJA Paris. Wild rubber, organic cotton, no advertising budget at all. 🇫🇷
• Superga Turin, 1911. The 2750 is the original. 🇮🇹
• Novesta Partizánske, Slovakia. Vulcanised by hand since 1939. 🇸🇰
• Camper Mallorca, family-run for four generations. 🇪🇸