27 comments

  • dabedee 11 hours ago

    Hey there! I find the idea super relevant and I think compliance tools that can be used like this are the way forward.

    Given the timeline of the commits and some other tells (e.g. using forwardRef despite using React 19 which deprecates it), it seems like you used coding assistants extensively. That's a personal preference, but I would mention that explicitly (if that's the case), if only for intellectual honesty.

      9dev 8 hours ago

      Hard disagree from me there. I don’t care what language a tool is built with, I’m neither interested in their choice of code editor, nor whether they use AI in the process or not. It’s a means to an end, not some flaw to be ashamed of and forced to disclose.

      If something gets built with AI or not at all, that’s a net positive as far as I’m concerned.

      hiepler 11 hours ago

      Thanks, appreciate the thoughtful feedback.

      You’re right that the commit history doesn’t fully reflect the raw development process. I did some cleanup and squashing before publishing, since this is an open-source project and I wanted the history to be readable and reviewable.

      I do use coding assistants as part of my workflow, mostly for iteration speed and boilerplate, but the architectural decisions, evaluation logic, and compliance mapping are intentional and manually reasoned through.

      Happy to clarify any part of the implementation or assumptions if something looks odd.

        Tiberium 7 hours ago

        Is there a reason why you're using LLMs for comments as well?

  • dmitrygr 11 hours ago

    "EuConform" <- I love the name. Not sure if you meant it as it reads, but I love it.

      petcat 11 hours ago

      "you conform" is how it reads to me. which leaves a bad taste given the nature of it.

        hiepler 11 hours ago

        Fair point

        The name is meant literally as “EU conformity” (EU + conform), not “you conform”.

        I was aiming for something that signals regulatory alignment without sounding legal-heavy, but I get how it can read differently.

  • pennaMan 9 hours ago

    in this case the best compliance is non compliance

    degrowth decels are a scourge

      troyvit 8 hours ago

      A scourge to what, exactly?

        pennaMan 8 hours ago

        To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.

          Jon_Lowtek 4 hours ago

          So your think that AI systems that pose a significant risk to basic human rights at scale, should not be subject to oversight and regulation, because that would be anti-human?

          wizzwizz4 8 hours ago

          The industrial revolution created slums. Social progress made those go away – and I'm sure the factory owners decried it just as vehemently.

            pennaMan 8 hours ago

            The industrial revolution also created clean drinking-water systems, sewerage and wastewater treatment, basic sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, mass-produced vaccination, antibiotics, antisepsis and sterilization, anesthesia, obstetric and neonatal care technology, refrigeration and cold-chain logistics, food safety and industrial food processing, pasteurization, canning, mechanized agriculture, synthetic fertilizers, modern crop breeding and seed systems, electrification and power grids, hospital infrastructure engineering and medical imaging.

            To name a few.

              wizzwizz4 7 hours ago

              The industrial revolution created a few of those things, but the term refers to a specific period of economic development between (quoth Wikipedia) "c. 1760 . c. 1840", where the production of several classes of goods was mechanised. Not all technological development since the 18th century is the industrial revolution. To pick one example from your list: synthetic fertilisers are largely due to the Haber process iirc, which was a 20th-century invention.

        sothatsit 8 hours ago

        Human flourishing

  • ankit219 9 hours ago

    Calling it "Conform" is very 1984esque. There is also a 2025 book (a dystopian romance) called the same: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223239535-conform

      lawlessone 8 hours ago

      TIL 1984-esque is when i can't use my customers data to train bots.

  • rvz 9 hours ago

    What innovation do we have here from the EU? Its official name should be:

    The Official EU AI Act Compliance Regulation Conformance Tool MMXXVI v1.0

    If you are one patch version behind, you are "non-complaint" and you will get fined immediately.

    We <3 EU!

      bigyabai 9 hours ago

      This but unironically. Snuff Google, Microsoft and Apple with the passion of a thousand suns and never let their ashes rise again to threaten fair people.

      Signed, an American who is fed up with adslop and saasslop propaganda. Do not reward immoral megacorps.

        troad 7 hours ago

        As a person who's lived in Europe, I encourage you to try it. You'll find that there are some upsides to all the regulation, but also many downsides. More than you'd expect if you've never lived and worked in Europe before. Many things you take for granted - don't even think about - either don't work at all, or don't work well.

        Not knocking Europe, but there's too much of a tendency online to picture Europe as some kind of Disneyland. Some of this is down to Americans who only know Europe from two-week holidays and picture it as a holiday utopia, some of it is Europeans who only know America from reality television and picture it as a hellscape.

        Pop discourse != reality.

  • hash872 10 hours ago

    Glad to see future builders focusing on bureaucratic compliance first & foremost. It's a stirring vision. This is a great European VC on Twitter you may want to tag about your project, he invests solely in GDPR-compliant European tech https://x.com/compliantvc

      tpetry 10 hours ago

      You know that this is a parody account?

        regnodon 10 hours ago

        I'm pretty sure you're replying to a comment which itself was supposed to be a parody. The "focusing on bureaucratic compliance first & foremost" seems to be something of a tell.

  • agentifysh 10 hours ago

    If you are not European, it doesn't seem very attractive for non-Europeans to deal with all the anti-business regulations.

    Also just from the data that has been shared with me chargebacks/complaints/nitpicking/stinginess alone from this region seems to demoralizing compared to Americans/East Asia

    We have this idealized view of a rich affluent "Europe" born from Marshall Plan but that certainly is not the actual reality today.

      Kim_Bruning 8 hours ago

      The EU started out as an economic union. They are still very capitalist. Which means they protect consumers, promote fair competition, and encourage trade between member states. They're neither mercantilist nor plutocratic.

      pyrale 9 hours ago

      > all the anti-business regulations.

      Regulation is made to protect customers. Consumer trust is favorable to business in the long run.

      It's really sad that US technologists confuse business and grift these days. Maybe it's related to their main customers being VCs, and the people using service just being props needed to have the line go up.

      troupo 9 hours ago

      > non-Europeans to deal with all the anti-business regulations.

      These are not "anti-business regulations".