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I’ve seen questionable reviews on Amazon Choice products as well. I vaguely remember reading that the labels are gameable since they are automated.

I recently had to buy something mundane - a light bulb, with a specific lumen and color temperature spec. Weeding out all the junk listings, ads and clearly fake reviews, I ended up spending an hour trying to get to the one I wanted to buy.

Had a very similar experience for another product as well.

At this point, I hesitate to look up stuff on Amazon just considering the time it takes to find stuff. I much rather prefer a curated list of products so someone else has done the weeding out.

It seems like Amazon’s philosophy of having the widest set of options for every product is actually not that useful in practice, at least for me.

The only reason I still keep going back is that they deliver many products on the same day to the neighborhood I live in.

Have a look at Typesense: https://typesense.org

Disclaimer: I work on Typesense.

Got it, thank you for sharing that. Typesense was at v0.19.0 around that time. Two prominent issues we had in that version were how we handled matches across multiple fields and how we handled "keyword stuffing".

We're now at v0.24.rc, and we've iterated quite a lot on improving relevancy since then, as more users shared their datasets with us and gave us feedback over the last 1.5 years.

If you get a chance to try out Typesense again in the future, I'd love to hear how relevance feels with the latest version, out of the box for your dataset.

I work on Typesense. Mind if I ask which version of Typesense and Meilisearch you tried this on? And if this was on some public dataset I can use?

I’d love to take a closer look.

Totally off topic, but scrolling through the front page I first read the title as “Terraform your city” and for a second my mind was blown thinking about what that could possibly mean…

Thank you for calling this out! It's great to see more products adopt this stance and this is one of the reasons we chose to not raise funds for Typesense [1].

From an article I wrote recently on this topic [2]:

> Selling Stock vs Selling Search

One key realization we had is that when we bring on investors, we are essentially bringing on a new group of customers - customers for whom the product is our company stock.

The value this group of customers (investors) gets from the product they are buying (stocks) is appreciating stock prices. And the way we can keep this group of customers happy is by regularly raising the next round of funding which is when stock prices appreciate, or having a liquidity event to make a return on investment.

We are concerned that “launching” a new “product line” (selling stocks) and bringing on a whole new group of customers (investors), would cause us to lose our precious bandwidth that could have otherwise been spent on our core search product that our primary group of users and customers expect from us. After all, the “company stock” product line would not exist without the core search product.

[1] https://typesense.org

[2] https://typesense.org/blog/why-we-are-not-raising-funds/

It's interesting to see how being in the same league as kubernetes could either be considered a compliment or an insult depending on who you ask!

I would put Vespa and also Weaviate in a new category called "Vector Search".

We're also actively working on adding Vector search to Typesense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851894

I work on Typesense and I can speak to it from Typesense’s perspective.

Typesense holds the entire index in memory, in order to enable fast search where every keystroke returns results in 50-150ms. So it’s built primarily to enable user-facing search.

It’s not a good fit for log search since putting your entire log dataset in memory can become expensive depending on the size of your logs, and you typically don’t need search-as-you-type for log search.

Zinc on the other hand seems to be designed specifically for log search.

Thank you for the feedback! Will make sure we have good documentation around this.

Thank you for saying that and thank you for building DataTables!

I've heard about DataTables in various contexts over the years, so it's really cool to hear that you've integrated it with Typesense.

Note: I work on Typesense [1], an open source alternative to Algolia.

This is an interesting acquisition from my perspective because we also just started working on adding vector search to Typesense about a month ago.

So you can now do nearest neighbor searches by bringing your vectors into Typesense. This lets you do things like similarity searches, recommendations, etc.

I’d love to have more beta testers use the feature and give us feedback. If you’d like to try it out, please send me an email: jasonb at typesense dOt org

In any case, congratulations Search.io / Sajari team!

[1] https://typesense.org/

Yes! I have this exact same problem on my AirPods Pro, and only during phone calls and meetings as well.

I’ve also had a tough time describing it, so couldn’t Google for it. I’ve also held off on taking it to the apple store to get it looked at, just because I didn’t know how to describe it well. May be I’ll just use your description now.

Just yesterday two people told me that they hear echos when I use my AirPods on two different meetings, so I had to switch to using wired headphones. Adding that to my list of problems. I wish I could just return the product now.

In fact, here's a diff of AGPL and SSPL, provided by MongoDB: https://webassets.mongodb.com/_com_assets/legal/SSPL-compare...

They took AGPL and modified it a bit to arrive at SSPL (See Section 13).

Thank you! Let me know if I can help.

Thank you HN for your encouragement and support over the years:

This was the push we needed to start working full-time on Typesense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22181437

Not in my experience either. I received phishing (physical) mail [1] pointing me to a domain that was registered with namecheap. I reported it to them in March, I followed up a few months later, and I still see the website operating today, with no response from namecheap.

The domain is even listed on the USPTO site as a scam operation [2], yet no action has been taken yet.

[1] Looks like this: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/WTP%20Tr...

[2] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/caution-misleading-...

Stripe Issuing may be: https://stripe.com/issuing

Thank you for the detailed responses!

This looks very interesting!

Given that you're purchasing 3-year RIs and then selling them on the marketplace, do you have stats on the risk of a listing not being purchased by someone for an extended period of time, and that eating into the potential savings?

> This is saving early customers over 50% in some cases

Does this 50% number account for the risk of unused RIs sitting unsold in the marketplace?

I saw in your docs that you're pursuing SOC2 compliance in 2022. Any updates on the timeline?

Do you take into account existing Savings Plan purchases and existing RIs that the account already has?

I've actually heard the opposite. Once you have a few large enterprise customers who bring in disproportionate amount of your revenue, you end up having to service their bespoke needs and corner cases, at the risk of losing them as customers. So the product ends up inviting a lot of complexity.

> The enterprise playbook is to sell on slides, iterate with a few customers and go after even bigger customers.

I would call this product discovery and development with early adopters, something I hope every startup is doing. I've also seen this be called a Lighthouse program.

> Managing enterprise customers is easier than managing thousands or small companies. And it also create a natural barrier to entry

I definitely get the appeal. To build a billion dollar revenue (not valuation) venture scale company, you can either get 1000 users paying you 1M dollars each, or 1M users paying you $1000 each [1].

It's just painful as a relative early customer to get priced out and no longer be the target market for a company, especially when it has set its eyes on exponential growth and starts to see the SMB market as a means to an end.

[1] https://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-buil...

> UPDATE:…

Let me know when you do!

One trait I’ve seen in “non-organic” software is the use of the Enterprise SaaS playbook.

Start bottoms up, give away free or low/no margin services, gain adoption, capture the market, then with the pressure to grow, they start moving upmarket, go after 100K+ deals and raise prices, and eventually price out / fire vast chunks of their early adopters.

Been personally bit by this a few times, so these days I tend to very cautious about adopting non-organic software, at least not without a backup plan.

I’m a founder myself and this is one big concern I have about raising VC funds. Wrote about this here recently: https://typesense.org/blog/why-we-are-not-raising-funds/

I’ve also started to use the term customer-funded (similar to VC-funded), instead of “bootstrapped”, since the latter seems to give off an impression of early stage whereas the former is a conscious choice and state of being.

Thank you for the kind words!

Thank you!

Almost all the comments so far are negative! So let me change that: I'm excited that something I'm working on, Typesense, was mentioned by name and logo during the developer key note!

[1] https://twitter.com/jasonbosco/status/1524483471988727809?s=...

Here’s some anecdata. About a year ago I posted on ProductHunt and a few hours later I received this cold DM on Twitter:

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Author here. Tell me about it! I have to remind myself that all the excitement around fund raising announcements also come with the side-effect of raising the stakes and increasing risk even more for the company, along with increased pressure to grow, cover more use cases, make the product complicated, etc. Then fund raising announcements become unenviable.