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daibo

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currently building the possibly fastest search engine in the world

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There are just the two of you working on typesense right? Surely having some more people working on the core product (up to five?) should help, no? I'm also building an Algolia alternative, with three engineers including me working on the core engine, and sometimes I wish I had one or two more.

Are you using Opensearch for logging or site search? $371 seems like a lot for a low traffic site. You can probably reduce the cost to a fraction by doing some research on alternatives

I assume you are using Symspell for fuzzy search and prioritize candidate frequency over edit distance. My input "algolai" returns results for "angola" even though "algolia" was just 1 transposition away. Anyway just dropping in to say that stuff on your github helped me figure out a lot while building a search engine from scratch. Good luck with SeekStorm!