What would be your top 5 most important and impactful product/service to switch from US to European?
And bonus question: What is one product/service you think is not as imlactful as another product/service or as others think?
My top 5(and choice):
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Search engine (Qwant)
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AI chatbot (mistralAI)
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Map app (mapyCZ)
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Mobility: selling US cars (this one should have easy EU choices)
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Food (may be very hard for some, but I think everyone should invest a lot of time into this topic)
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Tech services neeeed(!) to be switched, since data is crucial in modern age. Oh also ofc don’t use chrome based browsers.
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Search: French Qwant.com is shockingly good, results, even in images is identical to Google/Bing. it has no AI integration which is fine, just use mistral. Only image search need a little refinement like a search for more identical of selected imagery. .
AI: chat.Mistral.ai is French and does the job to answer ie more specific but not too scientific questions.
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Map: pleased with mapy.cz, ofc no street view but everything else, adding images of places is our job
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Car: preferably even trying public transport+cycling or just cycling for groceries is a lot already or go for EU car if still needed for whatever degree
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Food: this is a big topic, so I’ll be general. I’d say don’t be perfect. Go for the essentials you buy most. If you replace these, already rate that as a win. Because every brand is just a pseudo of a likely American corporation behind
Hmm, I haven’t really switched much. Our car is from a Korean manufacurer, my email and webhosting providers are from Germany, I selfhost some services and use a lot of open source software, use a metasearch engine, OsmAND… And while I still have accounts on Facebook, X, Reddit, you-name-it, I’ve been trying to avoid them for years by now. I wonder if there’s something left for me.