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Swiftype for Mobile: Full-text search for iOS and mobile Web
- 100k 14y agoI'm really proud of this release. I'm happy to answer any questions about it. If anyone has any doubts about how hard Geoffrey Grosenbach or Ryan Bates work on their screencasts, put them to rest. Those things take _forever_ to make!
- danielpal 14y agoGreat great screencast. The product it also looking awesome. Congrats!
- jamesjyu 14y agoYep, never underestimate how long a quality screencast takes. It's totally worth it since many developers and customers want to see what it looks like before trying it. And especially for platforms, describing in words is sometimes too abstract.
- 100k 14y agoI believe Ryan Bates has said 1 hour per minute. If anything, that's an understatement. Maybe it gets easier as you do more (this is my second screencast).
- jamesjyu 14y ago1 hour per minute is a pretty good estimate. It does get easier. It's all about preparation and setting up an efficient workflow.
- danso 14y agoI saw "Swiftype" and my brain thought "Swiftkey" + "Swype"...two things that I wish would someday come to iOS.
- yock 14y agoI too thought immediately of Swiftkey, and wondered if Swiftype will have branding and/or trademark issues. OT, but Swiftkey is actually working on a swype-like input called Flow. http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/ http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
- hnriot 14y agoI am confused about the swiftype value proposition? What does it offer over simply installing elastic search (et al.) and pushing json documents. Making a mobile/web search front-end isn't very difficult using json results+mustache templates etc. I was unable to find on the swifttype website what the advantage of using the product. I did like the drag/drop result ranking though, that's pretty neat.
- dcope 14y agoThey have an overview video on the homepage. Seems like analytics and ease of use are the big wins for it. For someone that wants no hassle search the crawler looks pretty neat.
- hnriot 14y agoInteresting. Odd that I should be downvoted for asking this question, but whatever. I get the benefits of cloud based search hosting, but am surprised that analytics and a crawler is enough of a reason to pay money though. Crawler's are flawed because there's always a latency. if you already own the data, it's much better to push content than wait for a crawler to pick it up at some arbitrary future time. For someone that wants no hassle search there's always site: from google, but I wish these guys luck and find it interesting how a little feature like analytics can make a business.
- 100k 14y agoI thought it was unfair you were being downvoted, I counteracted that. It more accurate to push data (and many of our customers do) but most people with web sites are not able to do that. We are working on making our crawler as fast as possible (for example, we just released incremental updates: http://swiftype.com/blog/incremental-updates.html http://swiftype.com/blog/incremental-updates.html) and paid users will be able to crawl as frequently as necessary. Regarding Google Custom Site Search...let's just say we don't hear of people switching _away_ from Swiftype to Google Custom Site Search. IMNSHO, our product is already better in just about every way.