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EU Inc: What Developers and Founders Need to Know About Europe's New Company Form

AC0Hero — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:41:14 +0000

The European Commission dropped something big on March 18, 2026 - and many EU-developers missed it.

They proposed EU Inc: a single company form that lets you register once and operate across all 27 EU member states. No subsidiaries. No local notaries. No navigating 27 different legal systems.

If you've ever tried to expand a business from one EU country to another, you know the pain. EU Inc is designed to kill that pain entirely.

The numbers

Registration time: 48 hours, fully online
Cost: Under 100 EUR total
Minimum capital: 1 EUR (yes, one euro)
Countries covered: All 27 EU member states
Notary required: No
Physical presence required: No

Compare that to today: setting up a GmbH in Germany requires a notary, 25,000 EUR minimum capital, and weeks of paperwork. A Swedish AB needs 25,000 SEK. A French SAS needs complicated statutes drafted by a lawyer.

EU Inc replaces all of that with one digital process.

Why developers should care

If you're an indie developer selling SaaS across Europe, you currently face this:

Today: You register a company in your home country. You sell to customers in 15 EU countries. Tax compliance, VAT, and legal obligations vary per country. Want to hire someone in Germany? You probably need a local entity. Want to raise money from a French VC? They might want a local structure.

With EU Inc: One company. One set of rules. You're already set up to operate everywhere.

This matters especially for:

Solo developers selling digital products across the EU
Remote-first startups with team members in multiple countries
Open source maintainers looking to set up a commercial entity
Indie hackers who want to keep things simple while selling internationally

What EU Inc actually is (technically)

EU Inc is formally called the "28th regime" - it doesn't replace any existing national company forms. It adds a new one on top. The legal name is S.EU (Societas Europaea Unius).

Key governance features:

Digital-first: Registration, share transfers, and shareholder meetings can all happen online
Modern cap table: Built-in support for share classes, vesting, convertible instruments - things that currently require expensive legal workarounds in most EU countries
English as standard: Documentation can be in English regardless of which country you register in
Single register: One EU-wide company register connected via BRIS (Business Registers Interconnection System)

The full proposal is COM(2026) 321 if you want to read the source.

What about taxes?

This is the question everyone asks. The answer: EU Inc follows local tax rules in the country where you register. Tax harmonization is not part of this proposal.

My hope is that if you register your EU Inc in ex. Estonia (0% corporate tax on undistributed profits), you pay Estonian tax rules. Register in Ireland, you get Irish rates.

This means jurisdiction shopping is still a factor - but at least you only need one entity instead of multiple.

Timeline

January 2026: European Parliament voted 492-144 in favor of EU Inc recommendations
March 2026: Commission published the formal proposal
End of 2026: Target for Parliament and Council agreement
2027+: First registrations expected (depends on adoption speed)

There's strong political will to push this through fast. The European Council explicitly called for it in their March 2026 conclusions.

Should you wait for EU Inc?

Probably not. If you need a company now, register one now. But you should:

Track the timeline - know when EU Inc becomes available
Design for conversion - EU Inc will likely allow conversion from existing national forms
Understand the trade-offs - EU Inc is great for cross-border, but if you only operate in one country, your national form might still be simpler

Resources

I've been tracking this regulation closely and built a comprehensive resource site:

Full EU Inc Guide -- everything you need to know in one place
Interactive Timeline -- tracks every legislative milestone
Company Form Comparison -- EU Inc vs Delaware LLC, Swedish AB, German GmbH, Dutch BV side by side
Readiness Assessment -- 2-minute assessment to see if EU Inc fits your situation
Weekly Insights -- analysis and legislation updates

The site is available in 24 EU languages at euinc.me.

What do you think -- would you use EU Inc for your next project? Drop a comment below.

I Built a 209-Page Sauna Site Without Knowing How to Code

AC0Hero — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:31:21 +0000

I am not a developer. I want to say that upfront so you know what kind of post this is. What ive tried to do is figuring out distribution before figuring out code.

The site is sauna.guide. It has 209 pages. Sauna listings, brand reviews, buying guides, gear recommendations. All of it built with Next.js, all of it static, all of it generated from JSON files and markdown.

I did not write the code by hand. I used AI tools to help me build it. But the decisions, the outreach, the content strategy, the emails to manufacturers. That part is all me. I hope and believe that will make the difference.

Why saunas

I love saunas. That is the whole origin story. No market research spreadsheet, no TAM analysis. I wanted to build something in a space I actually care about, and saunas felt right. There is a growing community, real buyer intent, and not a lot of good independent content online.

So I started. 🧖

Distribution first, features second

The biggest lesson so far: nobody cares about your site until you give them a reason to.

I have spent more time emailing sauna manufacturers than I have spent on the site itself. Real emails, one by one. Introducing myself, explaining what Sauna Guide is, asking if they want their brand page reviewed and updated. Some reply. Some don't. All will ;)

That is the whole distribution strategy right now. Talk to the people who make the things I write about. Build relationships. Get them to share their pages.

What 209 pages actually looks like

Every page on the site comes from data files. Saunas are stored in a big JSON file with ratings, features, editorial notes, and quality scores. Guides are markdown files with a publish date in the header. Products have specs, prices, and Reddit sentiment.

At build time, Next.js reads all these files and generates a static HTML page for each one. No database, no server, no CMS. Just files in a folder that become a website.

I also built a simple scheduling system. Every guide has a date, and the site only shows guides where the date has passed. I have 14 guides queued through September. They go live on their own. All I need to do is redeploy every couple of weeks. 📅

Early signs

I want to be honest here. I do not know if this will work long term. The site has been live for a few months and I am still figuring things out.

But some things are starting to move:

Google is indexing pages and some are ranking on page one for specific queries
A few brand pages get steady organic traffic
Manufacturers who engaged with outreach are sharing their pages
People who find the site tend to stay and read multiple pages

None of this is explosive growth. It is more like seeds starting to show above the soil. Enough to keep going. Enough to believe there is something here.

What I have learned so far

Content quality beats content quantity. I started by trying to publish as much as possible. That was a mistake. The pages that rank are the ones I spent real time on. The ones with editorial opinions, real tips, honest drawbacks. The thin pages just sit there.

Outreach is the unlock. SEO takes months. Social media is noisy. But a personal email to a manufacturer who then shares your review of their product? That is immediate, targeted traffic from exactly the right audience.

You do not need to code to build. I am proof of that. AI tools can handle the implementation if you know what you want to build and why. The hard part is not the code. The hard part is knowing what to say, who to talk to, and having the patience to wait for results.

What is next

More outreach. More guides. More relationships with people in the sauna world. I am also working on a quiz that helps people find the right home sauna, which feeds into an email sequence.

I do not have a grand vision for where this ends up. Maybe it becomes a real business. Maybe it stays a passion project that makes a little money. Either way, I am grateful to God for the ability to build something from nothing and learn along the way. That alone has been worth it. 🙏

If you are thinking about building a content site, my advice is simple: pick something you love, build the pages, and then spend most of your time talking to people instead of tweaking your code.

The site is at sauna.guide if you want to see it.

Thanks for reading.

I built a church discovery site with 2,200+ churches in 50 countries

AC0Hero — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:52:10 +0000

GospelChannel is like "Yelp for churches" but with worship playlists, YouTube links, and a prayer wall.

Why I'm building this

Finding a church shouldn't be hard. But it is. You google "churches near me" and get a mix of outdated directories, broken websites, and listings that tell you almost nothing useful.

I moved cities a few years ago and spent weeks trying to find a church that felt right. Service times were wrong. Websites were down. There was no easy way to get a feel for a place before showing up.

So I started building GospelChannel. Not as a business plan or a startup pitch. Just as something I wished existed.

What the site actually does

Every church on GospelChannel gets a profile page with the stuff that actually matters when you're looking for a place to attend:

Worship playlists from Spotify so you can hear what the music sounds like before you visit. This is a bigger deal than people think. Music sets the tone for an entire service.

YouTube links for each church, so you can watch a service from your couch before deciding to visit.

Service times that are actually current (more on how I keep these updated below).

A prayer wall where people can share and support each other. In all honesty, the prayers on there right now are seeded since the site doesn't have real traffic yet. But the feature is built and ready for when people start showing up.

You can browse by country, city, or denomination. The goal is: land on the site, find a church, and know what to expect before you walk through the door.

The tech behind it

The site runs on Next.js 16 with Tailwind for styling, Supabase as the database and auth layer, and Vercel for hosting. Pretty standard modern stack, nothing fancy.

The interesting part is the data pipeline. Manually researching 2,200+ churches would take forever, so I built an AI pipeline:

Apify crawls church websites
Firecrawl extracts structured data from those pages
Claude enriches and normalizes everything: service times, denominations, locations, descriptions

This pipeline lets me add churches in bulk and keep the data fresh without doing everything by hand. It's not perfect, but it gets me 80% of the way there, and I can review and correct the rest.

The Spotify API handles the playlist integration. Each church gets matched with their official Spotify profile when one exists.

The numbers so far

2,200+ churches listed
50 countries covered
Growing steadily through the AI pipeline and community submissions

It's still early and traffic is basically zero. But the data is there, the features work, and now it's time to get it in front of people. That's partly why I'm writing this post.

What's next

A few things on my list:

Better search and filtering. Right now it's functional but basic. I want filters for language, accessibility, denomination, and service style.
Church claiming. Let pastors and admins claim their church profile and keep it updated themselves.
More countries and languages. 50 countries is a start, but there are churches everywhere.

Check it out

If you're curious, the site is live at gospelchannel.com.

I'd love your feedback. Whether it's about the tech, the UX, or churches you think should be listed. Drop a comment here or reach out through the site.

And if you know someone who's looking for a church, maybe send them the link. That's the whole point of this thing.

Thanks for reading.