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Interesting idea. How's it going so far? Do you have any customers?

Started this as an open source project with the goal of first creating an ecosystem. So far, I have been getting good reviews from people who are using it as a search solution.

Eventually, there will be certain premium features that maybe only 10% of people will really want, and I will charge for that. Playing the long game here.

How do you protect yourself from Amazon offering it on their cloud? Same issue as MongoDB and Elasticsearch.

Good question, and something that's always on the minds of open core companies these days. In my case, I don't mind, and in fact would welcome it! It would solve my no.1 pain point: discoverability.

I'm not planning to build a billion dollar startup out of Typesense, so I don't face the same problems that Mongo and ES do. I also don't plan to offer a hosted version of Typesense. If somebody else fills that void, I will happy to let them do that. For an infrastructure product, there will always be people who want to run it in-house -- there is enough $$$ to be made in that space.

Surprising, AWS is quite open with startups about potential cannibalization if you can form a relationship with the Accelerate program.

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