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That said, it proves once again that entrepreneurs should not feel discouraged by the presence of competitors in their field. Continue to build your own great product. Your biggest, most successful competitor may be the next one to fail for whatever reason or, hopefully for them, have an early exit which clears the field for your product/service.
http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-i...
Can someone list some alternatives to IndexTank? We rely on them pretty heavily and this is going to leave us, and I imagine quite a few other companies, in a bind.
Great to see a fellow startup get acquired. But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then. This is great for the IndexTank team, but screws all of their customers (of which I am one).
We are going to do exactly what you described. If everything goes as planned, IndexTank will continue to live on.
"IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months" So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.
The Heroku plugin will not go away, neither will the IndexTank service if everything goes as planned.
Congrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition. Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted service at http://websolr.com/ . We're bootstrapped, profitable, and going on two years old. And we intend to be around for a while! Feel free to hit me up with questions!
Can someone list some alternatives to IndexTank? We rely on them pretty heavily and this is going to leave us, and I imagine quite a few other companies, in a bind.
We use Flying Sphinx and it's worked out well.
I want to believe that my own post is more interesting than the TC article :) http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-i...
Congrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition. Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted service at http://websolr.com/ . We're bootstrapped, profitable, and going on two years old. And we intend to be around for a while! Feel free to hit me up with questions!
I'm kind of curious as to what sort of performance improvements your normally able to get for people?
We do get a surprising number of people who are upgrading from SQL LIKE queries. In a situation like that, you might see queries that take a few seconds to scan through a table in SQL get cut down to a few dozen milliseconds to fetch results from an index. That's just a good example of using the right tool for the job.
It would be a little tricky to compare performance to self-hosting, given the myriad of variables involved. And as far as other services go, perhaps someone else can speak to that. Or maybe you have a more specific scenario in mind?
Super happy for you guys, congrats!! :) Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(
Yep, founders+investors win. Customers lose. I guess that's the new way to run a business. Exit > customers.
Ideally we'll get other providers to implement the IndexTank API for a seamless transition. I will post updates about this.