This was exactly my pain point as well. For smaller projects, ES is a overkill. So I decided to do something about it! I started working on an open source, real

This was exactly my pain point as well. For smaller projects, ES is a overkill. So I decided to do something about it! I started working on an open source, really, developer friendly search engine that just works. It's pretty stable now and quite a few people use it and like it: https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense Would love to hear your feedback.