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by tobr·5mo ago·view on hn ↗
As a European, my impression is that things named something something ”Euro” tend to be cheap and low quality. I don’t think it’s possible to build a positive consumer brand around ”Eurosky”. I support the cause though - we probably need to find a catchy word like ”Brexit” or ”enshittification” to make it salient.
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This is almost universally true for every national identity (or however we want to widen the term to include Euro).

If you have a good product, you usually lead with that. "Made in X" becomes one bullet point in the list of things that make you great. If you lead with "made in X" or even make that your entire brand, that's a sign that you probably don't have much else to bring to the table.

The only real exception are foods and beverages. And even there it's questionable

> Eurosky is a pan-European initiative spearheaded by a coalition of entrepreneurs, technologists and civil society organizations

A brit, a belgian and a german by the looks of their profiles, which are just their linkedin pages.

Posting this to HN feels like some guys trying to do "growth hacking" with Brusselian characteristics.

Honestly I even propose this conjecture: If you are in Europe you will learn about any truly European social media from some other source long before it appears on HN.

Elevator pitch could be "Wirecard for Social Media".
When I read "Eurosky", Skyshield immediately came to mind. Sounds like a military project.