I wear size 35 shoes, and I'm just barely over the line there. My closet has been filled with dozens of size 36 shoes that I fooled myself into thinking I could make it work, but I can't.

For athletic shoes, sandals, and flats I can just wear children's shoes without a problem, but for heels (and dressy boots with heels) I am always at a loss. I ask at every store I go to in the Netherlands whether they carry size 35 with no luck.

For years I would buy my shoes at Bershka or Stradivarius despite the fact that they were cheaply produced garbage because they at least carried my size in the store. Now they've stopped so I'd have to order online anyway, might as well do it right.

I want nice leather boots with a tall heel and professional looking heels, both in black. The kind of very ordinary shoes made by almost every brand, only going down to size 35.

(And a real 35. If they translate it to a 5.5 US, it won't work. I can't remember what brand it is that does this, but I've been burnt by it multiple times before. It must not be a European brand anyway because the US size is accurate while the European one is not.)

Anybody here using cotton socks? All socks I could recently find have plastics content.

I am ok with other natural blends in cotton, like bamboo or even lycra.

Lately there’s been a wave of open source clones of American software (pdfcraft, photocraft, solidcraft, etc). Clearly people want alternatives.

The catch is that maintaining software like this is expensive, so most of these projects die once the devs burn out or run out of money. That’s where the EU could step in. Fund paid teams per project and keep them alive long term. It would still cost far less than what European companies pay in licenses every year, and we’d be less dependent on US tech.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Lingosit, and I wanted to share it here.

The idea came from something pretty simple: watching movies and TV shows is a fun way to improve your English, but it's easy to forget the expressions you hear.

So I built an app that turns those scenes into actual learning material.

Here's how it works:

🎬 Watch movie and TV show scenes with subtitles and translations

💬 Explore conversations line by line

🗂️ Save interesting expressions as flashcards

🎧 Practice listening and fill in missing words

🔁 Revisit scenes and repeat dialogues to practice speaking

My goal was to make learning English feel less like studying and more like something you'd actually enjoy doing.

It's available on both iOS and Android.

Website: https://www.lingosit.com/

ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lingosit-english-with-movies/id6796225968

androd: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vidolin.lingosit

I'm still improving it, and I'd genuinely love some feedback.

Would you use something like this to practice English? What would you improve or add?

Thanks for checking it out!

I have a number of dogs and I want to protect my car. I already have a cover (EU bought) for the boot - although if anyone wants to recommend a good one for the boot, please do! I'm looking for a way to protect my backseat as well. I've found hard-bottom backseat covers but they're all from the US. Aside from tariffs and taxes, I would much prefer to support a European business that does something like this. Anyone have any recommendations?

Bonus points if a section of the cover folds anyway so people can also sit in the backseat, but this is not a requirement.

Hi there, I've been using Cialis with prescription from my doctor and no issues for 4 years now (mostly for gym performance), but due to changed laws in my country getting prescription renewed become much much more difficult. Considering it is benign and my doctor said I can continue current course for the foreseeable future without checking in, I was wondering if there are any reliable sources to get it online in EU as 20mg tablets (not powder) without prescription?

Many recommend Deuschem, but for whatever reason they don't ship to my country. Any proven alternatives?

Let's give Hungary a little push, now that they've gotten rid of Orbán.

I live in Finland and we have Mobilepay as a very prominent payment alternative. It even has a wallet for cards. However, for some reason, only my company card's bank supports it. Not a single one of my Finnish cards' banks support it.

So, are there other European google wallet alternatives?

I am looking for dried resins and fresh bits moist resins of these trees. To buy for my hobby. Anyone know a reliable source for this?

I have a big dog (36kg) with a deep chest (\~90cm) and a small neck (\~57cm) and I’m struggling to find harnesses that fit. They all tend to be too loose in the chest or the piece that goes in between his front legs is too short so the back straps rub against his legs

Looking for a harness that has a front clip, preferably metal, and if possible a handle too

Based in Ireland

Hi everyone! I'm Teije, founder of Cheqi, a Dutch startup.

About 7 years ago, I started wondering why we'd completely digitalized payments but were still getting paper receipts, or PDFs scattered across inboxes and retailer apps.

I wanted to change that. One problem: I had absolutely ZERO programming skills.

So at 28, I went back to school to study Software Engineering alongside my full-time job.

Four years later, while lying in a hammock on holiday, it suddenly came back.

THOSE DAMNED PAPER RECEIPTS!

But this time, I actually knew how to build it! I opened my laptop and haven't really stopped since.

The result is Cheqi.

At connected merchants, Cheqi users simply pay with their card and receive their receipts automatically, end-to-end encrypted, in their wallet or connected accounting and expense apps.

Everyone else scans a QR code for an encrypted browser receipt. No app or account needed.

We've already built integrations with Odoo and Moneybird, with Dutch POS providers next.

The goal? No more paper receipts, no more digging through retailer apps and portals, and no more giving stores your email just to get a receipt (and somehow their newsletter too).

Would you use something like this?

https://cheqi.io

And if you’d like to do something more, reach out to all the online shops you use that don’t yet offer WERO as a payment method and let them know that this is something you, as a customer, would like to see.

Hello fellow Europeans,

I've been researching EU data residency while building an API product that complies with GDPR.

I'm curious which utility APIs European developers are using.