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46 points by Merinov ↗ HN
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.)?

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larrywinch
european artificial intelligence ftw!!!
shlip
Nice idea, but it does not work without JS. It's baffling to me that more and more sites use this (dark?) pattern of requiring JS just to display links.

EDIT: Well I was too quick, it partially works, you can click the grey "source" link on white bg for each article. Why not make the whole div a link instead ?

The sorting menus on top of the page are not working without JS though.

beardyw
The pointless illustrations was what stood out most for me.
4ggr0
very cool idea, but the AI-generated images really irk me. firstly because they're AI-generated images, secondly because they're just flat-out wrong for the example i clicked on.

Take this[0],

DATENSCUNTZ-EINSTELLUNES should be DATENSCHUTZ-EINSTELLUNGEN

ALLE AKZIETTREN should be ALLE AKZEPTIEREN

you get the point, basically almost all the text is wrong...i think AI-generated images are annoying and vapid enough, but if they don't even show actual text then what's the point? the english ones seem to be fine, can't judge the spanish ones. images feel like a lazy business-powerpoint.

anyways, cool site in general :)

[0]https://europedigital.cloud/_next/image?url=%2Fapi%2Fnews-im...

rr2841
Things that I liked:

* The article selection (which is probably the most important part)

Things that I did not liked:

* AI Images. While they are well made and not as cringe as others, I prefer to get stock images even if they are repeated.

* Lack of RSS (or at least I couldn't find it). This is a deal breaker for me

Nice busy!

vindex10
RSS or/and newsletter would be nice (but manually curated, not ai summary)
gethly
Good. I welcome it. I am quite tired of 'merica.
LosMyke
Really like this. Eager for the RSS to be launched so it can be in my daily news routine.
visarga
You can select by source and audience, but not by topic. I found that a bit strange, topic would be the first thing we filter by. Why don't you dress up the summarization prompt with a task to generate tags?
mcrk
What's the point?, its gonna turn into another slop of "we use AI to.." type of startup updates (but with less valuation, because it's EU)
jonas_scholz
Thank you for mentioning Sliplane! Really cool project.
Merinov
Thanks Jonas, Sliplane made it easy to deploy :)