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title: "Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to-an-almost-all-eu-stack-and-saved-500-per-year--m1udjssex
source_url: https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-12-30T04:50:18.261Z
updated: 2025-12-30T04:50:42.939Z
tags: ["ai", "cloud", "privacy"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 69
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 69 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

A developer shares their complete migration from US-based tech services to EU-hosted alternatives, detailing specific tool replacements across email, cloud storage, password management, AI, hosting, and productivity. The Proton ecosystem replaced Google Workspace, 1Password, and Notion, while Scaleway replaced AWS/Azure, and Mammouth provided multi-model AI access. The migration resulted in €528 annual savings (from €83/month to €39/month) while improving privacy and data sovereignty. Challenges include limited alternatives for social platforms, blogging (still using Substack), and occasional reliance on Google search and Claude Code.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@grantkennedy** · 4 upvotes

> Recently moved off of Google Analytics in favor of a self-hosted Plausible. Repurposing an old laptop as the server was a fun little project over the holidays and now my websites don't require any cookie banners. Win-win.
>
> Now my email and analytics are all EU privacy focused alternatives.
>
> Looking for more ways to move off of US big tech.

**@fabianletsch** · 3 upvotes

> You said you do not have an alternative to Grammarly, yet you are using DeepL and Mammouth. What are you using Grammarly for?
>
> Because DeepL Write could be used for grammar checking as well and you could also write a custom prompt for fixing grammar in mammouth i suppose if it has a prompts feature.

**@olinox14** · 1 upvotes

> Well, Ecosia is nice but it relies on Google and Bing to provide results, so it's not really an european solution... I use Qwant on a daily basis, results are very good IMO.

**@jacealtgen** · 0 upvotes

> As for enjoying Claude Code, I can recommend checking out some variant of openhands + Claude via openrouter (they have privacy-respecting endpoints) or (and I haven't tried this myself), run it off Mammoth APIs, or use LiteLLM and AWS Bedrock as a LLM provider. All these variants give you Claude LLMs plus agentic coding at a price-per-token basis rather than the Claude Code cost.

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