{"author":"stuart73547373","children":[],"created_at":"2026-02-17T13:05:07.000Z","created_at_i":1771333507,"id":47047081,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":1,"story_id":47047081,"text":"i started working on building a rust search engine on rocksdb in 2019 but got distracted by covid things and meanwhile saw the meilisearch and typesense projects release and take off<p>then last year i started working on building a free campaign finance web tool that i eventually wanted to be able to search 10+M docs, so i investigated current day usage-based search pricing on meilisearch and algolia, and found that it would still cost $thousands per month (around $2k MS, $4k Alg)<p>so with all the vibe hype (and tantivy) i thought i&#x27;d give rolling my own another shot so here we are<p>goal is complete algolia api compatibility so instantsearch.js woks out of the box.  single-step algolia migration<p>super grateful for any feedback! thanks for checking it out","title":"Show HN: Flapjack is an open source drop-in Algolia alternative","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/gridlhq/flapjack"}