Show HN: Flapjack is an open source drop-in Algolia alternative

i started working on building a rust search engine on rocksdb in 2019 but got distracted by covid things and meanwhile saw the meilisearch and typesense projects release and take off

then last year i started working on building a free campaign finance web tool that i eventually wanted to be able to search 10+M docs, so i investigated current day usage-based search pricing on meilisearch and algolia, and found that it would still cost $thousands per month (around $2k MS, $4k Alg)

so with all the vibe hype (and tantivy) i thought i'd give rolling my own another shot so here we are

goal is complete algolia api compatibility so instantsearch.js woks out of the box. single-step algolia migration

super grateful for any feedback! thanks for checking it out