Color scheme is a bit harsh for me. I understand you're going for EU colours, but maybe a softer background like #fcfcfc and a more muted blue would be easier on the eyes?

I agree. And I will go a little bit further, why don't do it with a black background? So much white on most websites.

seconded

Great idea, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this initiative.

I believe that the main challenge would be to get more traction and build a community. Hope you find a way to encourage as many people as possible to join the website.

My very minor nitpick -- I would add some kind of background colour to the main post list, something like #FAFAFA looks fine to me.

Thank you! Please consider signing up and occasionally posting something, it would help a lot.

I'll look at the background suggestion too, thanks!

What are the community guidelines? Is it okay to post personal projects similar to show hn?

Yes, absolutely! The guidelines for now are basically "same as HN, but Euro-centric content please" :) I'll write these down somewhere explicitly soon.

Great idea, I'd appreciate an RSS feed

Shouldn't be too hard to do, I'll look into it. Thank you!

Ooh I like this! I love Hacker news and Lobsters but they're both very US centric, seem great to have a European one.

UI is very nice and simple, one tiny bit of feedback is that a 'guidelines' page would be worthwhile, especially while it's new! I thought I'd post my own project on the site - sometimes that's a little bit of a no-no though, and I couldn't find any guidelines to steer me towards what types of things to share, etc.

Edit: Tiny extra feedback, is upvoting something immediately changes the rankings in the browser. It's pretty impressive speedwise, but especially if you're a couple pages in, you can bump something off of the page you're on which makes it a little weird to do something like 'upvote article and then check the comments'.

Thanks for the feedback and posting, I appreciate it!

I'm definitely going through the comments I've had later and will take everything onboard. Guidelines is a great idea - for now it's basically "HN guidelines but Euro-centric content please" but I should definitely write that down.

I like to browse HN via "/front" and "Go back day" and then look at the couple of top posts for each day. I don't see such a day-by-day view on TPE.

What is the "official" acronym? TPE? TP? TecPeu?

What is language policy? (e.g. it would be nice if people would post any language they want, and the system shows other users what language the link is, and then offers an alternative link to a translated version. I imagine this would be hard to implement in a way that is robust way, but maybe you when user submit a link, they can set the language themselves)

First post:

> Show TP: TreatyHopper - Pay less taxes

> Treaty shopping is a tax strategy where companies route profits through intermediary countries with favorable tax treaties to minimize overall tax liability.

Can't make this up x)

How would you like your double Irish with a Dutch sandwich, sir?

The comment page here on mobile

https://techposts.eu/post/68

It shifts out of the screen on the left cutting off the comments. (The problem is probably how you deal with the long url or not deal with it)

Thanks, I'll fix that!

I noticed that you’re using the favicon from Vercel, or that Vercel is using your icon. :))

Good work, but the headlines are still in „newspaper“ style and not in hacker news style

You mean the automatic normalization HN does when you submit the title? Yeah, it's still quite basic compared to the real HN. I want to validate it properly before investing in lots of features :)

Great initiative. I was confused by the comment section design. The style of the metadata is not distinct enough from the real comment. And it tooks me too long to understand that the responses to comments were not citations.

How do you get users to your site? I always felt these products are the hardest to build, but probably the most rewarding ones.

If you could add API on top of it, and make it compatible with HN clients, it would be very nice!

Interesting idea! I was kind of playing with the idea of doing something CrunchBase-like for the companies, jobs and funding rounds. But there's a lot of data out there publicaly too so I'm not sure if it's worth it. Will have a look at the HN clients too, thanks for the idea!

Love to see EU specific. How do you get the jobs posts?

Thanks!

I get the job posts the hard way, from scouring about a dozen different sources, including my own shortlist of "interesting companies".

great! singuped! Just please - get rid of that all blue and underlined links. Its hell to read.

Ha, thanks for the feedback! People have made a few points about the styling, it definitely needs a harder look. Maybe a silly question but which do you find worse, the blue color or the underlines?

Install some custom style css extensions and look at all the HN variations. I like the solarized one.

Site needs better UI without a doubt.

Copy HN UI as its. no one cares.

Good luck

Hi! Are you looking for a collaborator? I had a list of European companies divided by sector, that follow GDPR rules, with 1.2k stars on GitHub, currently deleted because I wanted to create a website, where people can search also for jobs and projects proposed by those companies, we can make a section of your projects related to it, let me know, please. I really love your idea!

very good start! I hate to be that guy, but I'd like if you had an imprint and privacy policy on the site ;)

Good feedback! I'll definitely be filling that kind of content in as I go.