Everyday more and more articles like this appearing on HN. For some reason Germany is still exporting around €130 billions of products every month. Unlike the US, it doesn’t include natural gas or oil.
Also in this article, they talk about how VW can’t compete with the Chinese cars companies. Can the US car companies compete? Why the US doesn’t even allow those cars to be sold? The same thing happened with Huawei. They simply ban the companies they can’t compete but everybody talks about Germany :)
I’ve known Hendrik for years, and he is one of the most talented developers I’ve ever met. I’m confident this project will become successful very quickly. Beyond the project itself, what fascinates me most is how he single-handedly developed it by leveraging agentic coding.
The thing about ARR numbers is that in most cases they didn't really recur, especially for an 8-month-old company. Also, I don't really care about these numbers anymore unless they share how much they spent on marketing.
Germany doesn’t compete in cheap manufacturing, they compete in highly precise manufacturing. There are bunch of things that are only manufactured in Germany. You don’t hear those companies that much because they are not public but they are well known by the people who work in specific industries. When you combine them, they are way bigger than the German companies you hear everyday which are laying off people or closing factories.
For some reason, every time Europe is mentioned, there is always a comment about how Europe is struggling but when you look at the quality of life, happiness or life expectancy, all those numbers are higher than the US. People should stop obsessing with GDP.
> who would actually trust China in any way shape or form as an alternative?
Most of the Asian countries (except South Korea, Japan and Taiwan) and African countries. They’re already getting tons of investments and loans from China.