Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
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Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
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Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#2I definitely love the hn search which is powered by algolia. Fast and instant. I wish it was possible to turn off fuzzy matching in some cases.
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#3Oh, that's the Hacker News site search... Works fine for me, except I always switch from "results by Relevance" to "Results by date", as in "Has this been posted already...?"
Did not know Google is discontinuing its custom search engine. Looks like there may be a business opportunity here.
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#4Congratulations!
Algolia wrote some good blog posts, for example:
https://stories.algolia.com/how-the-founders-of-algolia-thin...
https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-built-a-culture-firs...
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#5Guess I always assumed Algolia wasn't anything special. Anyone know what exactly makes it worth so much?
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#6Anyone care to share positive and negative experiences of using Algolia to power search in your SaaS?
(We're currently using MySQL's full-text search and are finding it to be a long way short of the experience we'd like our customers to have.)
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#7Algolia is a fantastic service. I wish Elastic Search just as easy to populate and then to search with a front end javascript lib.
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#8Still blows my mind that Algolia is built on like, nginx
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#9Anyone care to share positive and negative experiences of using Algolia to power search in your SaaS? (We're currently using MySQL's full-text search and are finding it to be a long way short of the experience we'd like our customers to have.)
It's hugely useful for our Zendesk help center search [1]. Very easy to set up: https://community.algolia.com/zendesk/.
Re: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
#10I've actually been avoiding using Algolia after I used IndexTank and then they were acquired by LinkedIn. (I always said grats diego + team at IndexTank) but it was a frustrating experience to need to role up everything and pack up shop.
Seeing a huge raise like this actually makes me feel better about the possibility of using Algolia rather than rolling my own Solr containers.