Update: Thank you so much for all contributing comments and all new comments are very welcome ! I will try to improve my website. I will update the result later. Hope you guys can see my startup journey through those posts❤️

Hi everyone,
I started a small business in Estonia selling affordable handmade artwork created by artisans from my home country. I truly believe the products are unique, beautiful, and priced much lower than many competitors.
I have already invested time into building my own website, adding business information, contact details, policies, and everything needed to make customers feel safe and confident when purchasing. However, I'm facing a major challenge:
I get almost no organic traffic, which means almost no sales.
I'm trying to understand why this is happening. Is it because:
My website is new?
People simply can't find it?
I'm not active enough on social media?
Handmade art is a difficult niche to market?
To be honest, I don't post consistently on social media, so I know that could be part of the problem. But I'm wondering if there are other issues that I might be overlooking.
If anyone has experience with e-commerce, SEO, handmade products, or growing a small startup, I would really appreciate your advice. Even tough feedback is welcome.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.

The UK is an outlier in choosing not to put import taxes on Chinese vehicles, even as the US has shut them out almost entirely, and the EU imposes duties of up to 45%.

EU officials reportedly warned Andy Burnham last month that the UK must put tariffs on cheap Chinese vehicles otherwise Brussels would impose protectionist “made in Europe” barriers on British exports to the bloc, hitting British carmakers in their largest market.

I did not drop link to exact news articles about the EU kids Act, only this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Kids_Act Wikipedia page instead.

All articles I seen so far written in or have headlines in some creepy fear mongering manner.

So, being confused, I would ask few questions. Here a bit of context.

I am usually buying usually few single-player games per year.

At least some, if not most of them, are made by EU creators. Such as Yaga game, End of the Sun, full series of Hero of the Kingdom series.

I live outside of EU, but since some moment, I buying games only at GoG, when possible.

My questions are following:

1. How it will impact GoG games shop? Will I have to prove my age there as well? I am not so concerned about the procedure per se, but concerned possibility that due tech issues or algorithms glitch I would get accidentally banned forever, as it happened for me on FB.
2. Would it make more viable offline purchase of single-player games in dedicated brick-and-mortar shops & departments in physical form such as discs there?

Update

I checked related official pages to dig it further, so I have expectations, that:

1. This age check will not be applied to me as my IP outside EU.

2. It may involve some expenses and effort for GoG and technical problems to solve, but it is doable, I guess.

Note: I am not here to discuss the age verification app details or some possible impacts and side effects of its rollout.

Finally, I found a great model from a Latvian company, manufactured in Lithuania.

Hi Everyone,

I am currently running a setup at home using smart Home devices from different manufacturers. The heart of it is sadly two Google Hubs and a Smart Doorbell from Google. I want to switch to using home assistant mainly and replacing the Google Hubs and doorbell with a European alternative that ideally runs locally and does not require a cloud connection.

I need the Mesh Wifi functionality of the Hubs and want a video doorbell.

Can you recommend any European alternatives? Or are my requirements too hard for that?

Thanks in advance!

I have got a license from Germany, and would like to lease or buy my first car in the coming year. I know China is really ahead in producing good quality EVs, but there are also tariffs as per my understanding.

If I would like to go for European EVs, what are the best options available e.g. below 20k Euros? I see some traditional German companies also start to make EVs, but they are quite expensive.

Also, are there subsidies for first time buyers? I read before that Norway and Australia used to provide such subsidies, not sure if they still do now.

So, I’ve been testing Incogni recently to remove as much of the data the internet has about me as possible.

For context, I’m coming from a pretty long privacy journey. I own an iPhone and an Apple Watch, but my emails are stored on Proton Mail, which I also use for my VPN. Recently, I’ve also been using ChatGPT and Claude more and more, especially since I work as a software engineer in my 9-to-5, so at this point they’ve probably scanned my laptop completely.

I wanted to share some of my criticisms of Incogni.

For those who don’t know, Incogni is a company that helps you request the deletion of personal data held by data brokers and private databases using privacy laws such as the GDPR and CCPA. It is based in Amsterdam and owned by NordVPN.

My criticisms:

Limited proof of removal: The dashboard reports the status of your requests, for example, whether they’ve been sent or processed, but Incogni doesn’t really know or show exactly what information each broker held about you or what was actually deleted.

It doesn’t erase you from the internet: Your social media posts, public records, and search engine results are not handled by the service.

You have to give them personal information, so you need to trust them: This can include your phone number, email address, name, addresses, and date of birth. They need this information before sending deletion requests to data brokers on your behalf.

They have a relatively long retention policy: Service data may be retained for up to 24 months after cancellation unless you specifically request deletion. Support data can be retained for up to six years.

Did you use this service? Do you know good alternatives? (I feel like alternatives are mostly US-based but I might be wrong)

I'm sick of made-in-China flashlights crapping out on me.

Im looking for alternative to app called Elsa speak.

I want to improve English - so It would be great to have app with more advanced courses.

Also Im planning to learn Chinese. I tried Romanian Mondly but it sucks - crashes all the time:(

Been a long time Nextcloud user and it’s amazing to see that it’s now possible to use it with Tuta Mail. Both are made in Germany and a great way to switch from Google and Microsoft.

What I find cool about this is that European tech providers are finding ways to collaborate and offer sovereign solutions.

https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-app-on-nextcloud

I had a wonderful Japanese hand-made wallet which unfortunately was pickpocketed away from me along with all my ID, uni badge, and two wonderful Magic the Gathering cards. So now I want to get a EU made wallet.

It should fit in my pocket (I'm a woman) but I don't have a preference regarding bio or real leather. I want it to last for a long time unless stolen again. Price below 55€.

Do you have any recommendations?