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Swiftype
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Swiftype is the company blog at swiftype.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2012, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “Add great search to your website in minutes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Swiftype's site and blog for its hosted site search product and its developer documentation. Most comments mention Swiftype as a search vendor, a customer tool or a company.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Swiftype is a cloud-based search platform that provides all the tools you need to create fantastic search experiences.
Most-linked posts?
- Add great search to your website in minutes9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-01-24
- /documentation/meta_tags2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-08
- Swiftype Search Analytics 2.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-05
What Hacker News says?
Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Swiftype for Mobile: Full-text search for iOS and mobile Web as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSwiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Swiftype launches WordPress Plugin and improved Tumblr support as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSwiftype/Elastic | Software Engineer & Technical Writer | REMOTE Swiftype (now part of Elastic) builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with produc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Swiftype Search Analytics 2.0 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSwiftype - San Francisco, CA - ONSITE (relocation assistance) The product you would help build powers the search experience on thousands of websites and applications. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team. Here is the view from our office: https://instagram.fsnc1-3.f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted WebServerUid: Easy Unique Browser IDs for Rails as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSwiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted MetaEvents for Rails: DRY Up, Structure, and Document Your Mixpanel Events as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSwiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Swiftype launches improved search analytics as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSwiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted A simple tip for a better admin console as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSwiftype - San Francisco, CA (relocation assistance) The product you would help build powers the search experience on hundreds of thousands of websites. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team. Some recent Open Source releases from our team: - https://swiftype.com/blog…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)”Submitted ObjectIdColumns: Transparently Store MongoDB BSON IDs in a RDBMS as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHere's a few more to add to your list (not all SaaS)... --ANALYTICS Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) Segment.io ( http://segment.io ) --CRM Close.io ( http://close.io ), Streak ( http://www.streak.com/ ) Base ( http://getbase.com ) --SALES ElasticSales ( https://elasticsales.com/ ) --CUSTOMER SERVICE Metaverse Mod Squad ( http://metaversemodsquad.com/ ) --DATA Factual ( http://www.factual.com/ ) --D…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted How we are using Swiftype to understand our customers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSwiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Swiftype is a Static Showdown sponsor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSwiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office! Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted Swiftype | Modern search for your website as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe've been using https://swiftype.com/site-search for a couple of years. It's great.
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on “Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018”Submitted Site Validation for Swiftype Search Engines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSwiftype - San Francisco, CA (relocation assistance) The product you would help build powers the search experience on hundreds of thousands of websites. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team. Here is the view from our office: http://distilleryimage4.ak.instagram.com/…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)”Submitted Add great search to your website in minutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlgolia isn't in this space, but there are definitely companies that are solving this. Swiftype comes to mind. https://swiftype.com/
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on “Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M”Interesting post. I work at Swiftype, where we build full-text search engines, and it's been interesting seeing the varying definitions of "good enough." It seems like Postgres full-text search is surprisingly decent for a less robust solution than something designed entirely for search, and I can see it being "good enough" if you are in the very early stages of development and don't want to add anything that requir…
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on “Postgres full-text search is good enough”Logstash is awesome. We use it at Swiftype to index all our logs and it's super helpful nailing down support requests and bugs (using Kibana). Since you can access the logs via the Elasticsearch API, we made users' recent logs available to them in our dashboard: https://swiftype.com/blog/api-logs.html
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on “Logstash joins Elasticsearch”Wagtail (our open-source Django CMS [1]) can generate a static HTML export of your site to the filesystem, Amazon S3 or Google App Engine, piggy-backing on the excellent django-medusa library [2]. This feature was commissioned by a security company who didn't want to risk an embarrassing exposure to new vulnerabilities in Drupal, Rails, Django etc. Search is an issue for static HTML sites. Swiftype [3] and Algolia […
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on “Drupal Core – Highly Critical Public Service announcement”
