Show HN: Building search engines with open source tech for $99

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • vector_engine

    Build a semantic search engine with Transformers and Faiss

  • We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

    Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

    Some examples,

    You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

    You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

    You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

    You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)

    We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

    Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

    Some examples,

    You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

    You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

    You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

    You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
  • Typesense

    Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences

  • We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

    Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

    Some examples,

    You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

    You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

    You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

    You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)

  • CLIPSemanticImageSearch

  • We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

    Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

    Some examples,

    You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

    You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

    You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

    You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)

  • streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer

    Explore the image embeddings of Unsplash using CLIP's image similarity

  • We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

    Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

    Some examples,

    You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

    You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

    You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

    You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)

  • streamlit

    Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.

  • We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

    Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

    Some examples,

    You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

    You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

    You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

    You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts