"Made in EU" – it was harder than I thought.
Summary
A founder tests building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, detailing providers like Hetzner, Scaleway, Bunny.net, Nebius, and Hanko, plus self-hosted services. The article highlights friction points in EU options for transactional email, domain pricing, and the persistence of American dependencies for ads, app stores, social logins, and AI models. It concludes that EU infrastructure is maturing and worth the effort, but not a drop-in replacement for US-based services.