Top 4 C++ search-engine Projects

• Typesense

  24 5,082 9.3 C++

  Fast, typo tolerant, fuzzy search engine for building delightful search experiences ⚡ 🔍

  Project mention: Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN? | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-06

  I've been following HN for 10+ years, first as a lurker and then getting into the whole "build something people want" thing. Over the years, I've "launched" quite a few projects here. Some have failed, while others have succeeded far beyond my modest expectations. But in a pre Product Hunt era, launching on HN was the only way to get exposure to your product. Even today, for a number of highly technical projects, HN is the best place to get the word out.

  While HN crowd has a reputation of being too cynical at times (the most famous example being the original "Show HN Dropbox"), over time, pre-empting how the HN crowd will potentially react and what kind of criticism a project might attract has actually helped me improve the product before launch!

  > I mean one day you got traffic 100K on the website. Good. But just for one day.

  My latest project, Typesense, which is an open source instant search engine (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) literally found traction only after posting here on HN. Yes, it was a ~50K single day traffic, but it had a permanent impact on the baseline traffic. So nothing is as useless as it looks :)

  Apart from the value I've gotten out of all these Show HNs, there is an incredible amount of value in the comments on HN. In fact, I often just skip the main post and just skim through the comments. Also, unlike certain other forums, snarky/toxic comments are discourage and moderated.

• MeTA

  0 599 0.0 C++

  A Modern C++ Data Sciences Toolkit

• Scout

  Sponsored scoutapm.com

  Get performance insights in less than 4 minutes. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.

• pisa

  1 486 6.3 C++

  PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia

  Project mention: ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-02

• flipper

  1 21 0.0 C++

  Search/Recommendation engine and metainformation server for fanfiction net (by Zeks)

  Project mention: How do you search for things on ff.net? | reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction | 2021-01-02

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