Search

I spent some time this afternoon setting up search on here to use Typesense. I've used wrestled with Elasticsearch for a long time and it's a great product, but most of the time I just want to push a load of documents somewhere and have a simple API to search them. Elasticsearch is not that. It's a lot of work to get a very simple search.

I've said for a long time that there's a gap in the market for something like Typesense. Searchkick tried to be it for Elasticsearch but it annoyed me a lot the times I tried to use it, and it's not platform agnostic. Algolia could've been it but it was super expensive last time I looked.

I managed to get Typesense set up and deployed in a few hours, got all my posts formatted and indexed, and it works pretty well. I want to add some stuff to the UI, see if there's something I can do with Semantic Search, and see if I can get their result highlighting working, but otherwise happy.