European tech news in 6 languages
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I built a multilingual news aggregator for European tech in 6 languages (EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL), filterable by audience (consumers, businesses, government) to help users discover relevant European alternatives.A few interesting technical challenges:PATTERN-BASED IMAGE GENERATION Generic AI images all look the same ("holographic businessman with laptop"). I solved this with a JSON database of 60+ concrete visual patterns—context-aware selection prevents repetition. Funding news → coins/contracts, security → locks/shields. Much more visual diversity. Still needs tweaking though.GRADUAL SITEMAP GROWTH FOR NEW SITES Daily news pipeline generates lots of content. Challenge: Google indexes new sites slowly—exposing all 2K+ URLs at once resulted in 1-3% indexing rate. Solution: Dynamic rolling window in sitemap—only expose top 50 most recent articles (300 URLs), gradually increasing to 100 → 150 → 200 over 6 months as site builds authority. Result: Indexing rate improved to 10%.AUTOMATED TRANSLATION PIPELINE RSS aggregation → AI summaries and translation with context-aware prompts → human review queue. Still tweaking quality per language pair.STACK: Next.js 15 with Turbopack, PostgreSQL, deployed via Sliplane@Hetzner which works pretty ok.STATUS: 1+ month post launch, 80 pages indexed, 100+ European apps featured (Mollie, Wire, Ecosia, LanguageTool, etc.)FEEDBACK WELCOME ON: • European news sources I'm missing? • Better approaches to multilingual SEO? • Translation quality red flags? • How to optimize for LLM discovery (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)?
HN · launched Nov 14, 2025 · 46 upvotes (top 18%) · 1 view
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is an automated content aggregator that ingests RSS feeds, categorizes them, translates text via LLM/translation APIs, and generates algorithmic or AI imagery.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Hacker News, TechCrunch Europe, Sifted, The Verge, Next.js
Concerns raised: Another AI startup with little differentiation or value, American politics/tech dominance in European spaces, AI-generated images feel like low-effort placeholder content, Unnecessary tracking and cookie consent requirements, Unclear filtering by topic vs. source/audience
Feature requests: RSS feeds (prioritized), Topic/tag filtering with AI auto-tagging, Reader mode without images, Toggle to disable images site-wide, Fix browser native behavior for link handling (ctrl+click, middle-click)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 167 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 168 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 13 days after the earliest competitor.
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