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Re:Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? by ffo on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:51PM (#47618620)
Zitadel CEO here :-)

Zitadel started in Switzerland under the name CAOS AG and has still a lot of its operations in Europe. For our US go to market strategy we incorporated Zitadel Inc. which operates out of SF where I also tend to be.

Happy to share more if interested

Re:Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? by jauco on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:04PM (#47618760)
Thanks for the clarification! Does the AG still exist?

And I think this speaks to my point that it isn’t a simple yes/no question :)

Re:Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? by ffo on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:33PM (#47619108)
It absolutly does https://zefix.ch/en/search/entity/list/firm/1391256 :-)

The matter is definitely more complex than yes and no... my general stand has been that jurisdiction matters a lot when you store and process data from customers, like many cloud services do. iIt matters less if you can take a software and self-host it.

Re:Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? by touwer on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:57PM (#47620076)
Pitty that it only operates on Gcloud. Makes it not European
Re:Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? by ffo on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:25PM (#47620416)
I hear you! Right now that is a constraint even if we have regions in EU and Switzerland.

You can easy deploy Zitadel to Hetzner though ;-)