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Meilisearch
Company blog · blog.meilisearch.comprogrammingdata
Meilisearch is the company blog at blog.meilisearch.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2019, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Why should you use MeiliSearch over Elasticsearch (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Meilisearch's blog for posts on typo tolerance, the EPPlus relicensing as an open-source business model, and company funding news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Latest news, tutorials, and updates from the Meilisearch team. Learn about search, AI, and building great user experiences.
Most-linked posts?
- Why should you use MeiliSearch over Elasticsearch (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-06
- Squeezing millions of documents in 128 TB of virtual memory3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-09
- Results at keystroke speed: inside a full-text search engine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-19
- Meili raises 1.5M€ for open source search in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-10
- MeiliSearch – Open Business Plan v0.12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-02
- Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-07
- What Is a Vector Database?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-21
- Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-27
- Vector storage is coming to Meilisearch to empower search through AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-05
What Hacker News says?
Dual-licensing with a suitable public license would allow him to build a viable business. https://duallicensing.com/ https://indieopensource.com/public-private/indies EPPlus was relicensed earlier this year, and it's already generating enough revenue to pay two full-time developer salaries in Sweden. https://blog.meilisearch.com/value-in-open-2-epplus/ The Parity Public License would be a suitable choice of public l…
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on “No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This”Submitted Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust as a story · 86 points
HN discussionMeilisearch | https://jobs.lever.co/meili | Remote (GMT-4 to GMT +5) | 4day workweek Meilisearch is an open-source search API. We provide developers tools to implement search bars, so their users spend less time searching & more time finding. We are looking for a few different roles: - Full-stack software engineer working on the cloud offering (React, Rails, K8s) - Senior software engineer working on the core engine…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSince its previous version, Meilisearch is offering a finer control over typo tolerance https://blog.meilisearch.com/typo-tolerance/
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on “Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest”Submitted What Is a Vector Database? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionYou could maybe use something equivalent to the "index hot swap"[1] feature we have at the Meilisearch level at startup, so that you make the reindexing in a another index at startup, and then atomatically swap this fresh index with the old one when it is ready? That way, you have fast startup at the cost of having possibly out-of-date information for a while after startup. (you could even reindex from scratch compl…
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on “Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust”Submitted Open-source can drive a company strategy as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMaybe. That one distinguishes itself from Elastic and hasn't set its sights on big data. > Elasticsearch is very powerful when it comes to massive datasets; it can quickly scale horizontally and allows one to build complex queries. The flipside of that is that nothing is easy. Even if all you need is simple search functionality that handles typos, synonyms, or filters, you're looking at hours of training, documentat…
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on “Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service”Submitted Vector databases and similarity search explained as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThank you for the feedback. You should probably look at our blog post explaining how to index in smarter way [1]. You should probably come and talk to us on Discord. We work with MrBeast and they don't have any issue indexing millions of YouTube videos everyday. Ho! And just to tease you a little bit. We highly improved the indexing speed of Meilisearch v1.6 (january 24). Here is a teasing tweet [2]. [1]: https://bl…
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on “Meilisearch expands search power with Arroy's filtered disk ANN”Submitted Squeezing millions of documents in 128 TB of virtual memory as a story · 9 points
HN discussionNot only does it exist but they recently closed another round of funding: https://blog.meilisearch.com/meilisearch-raised-5meu-seed-fu...
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on “GitHub’s Longest (Partial) Outage”Submitted Run MeiliSearch, an Elasticsearch alternative on a 5$ DigitalOcean droplet as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why should you use MeiliSearch over Elasticsearch (2020) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meilisearch vs. Typesense as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meili raises 1.5M€ for open source search in Rust as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A plan for MeiliSearch, open source alternative to Algolia as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meilisearch 1.8 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meilisearch v1.6 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are Vector Embeddings? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Federated search, the one search to rule them all as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we implemented the 4 day work-week as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meilisearch 1.9 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Results at keystroke speed: inside a full-text search engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to deliver the best search results: inside a full text search engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Navigating search results: pagination vs. infinite scroll vs. load more as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meili raises 1.5M€ for open source search in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted MeiliSearch – Open Business Plan v0.1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to deliver the best search results: inside a full text search engine as a story · 3 points
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