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by jhandl 14y ago
Also Flaptor was a search consulting company five years before the startup.
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by jhandl 14y ago
You think he started a search as a service company because he was targeting LinkedIn? Flaptor (the name of the company, IndexTank was the product) was a search consulting company five years before becoming a startup. I know, I was there.
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by jhandl 14y ago
Take a look at this: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/
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by jhandl 15y ago
The Searchify team grocked the code really fast and already started improving on it. Would you have your children stay with their 1st grade teacher all through elementary, middle and high school?
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by jhandl 15y ago
"untangle from IndexTank"? The whole point of this post is to remind people how trivialy easy it is to switch from IndexTank to Searchify. They are the same product.
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by jhandl 15y ago
Beware: Windows only. I know, it should be obvious, but it's been a long time since a large company dumped an .exe onto my downloads folder without even checking what OS I'm on. I'll stick with X-Plane. It works on all major platforms and i
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by jhandl 15y ago
As one of IndexTanks developers, I think this is awesome. Good work!
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by jhandl 15y ago
I believe it is not uncommon for businesses to rely on plans.
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by jhandl 15y ago
It is our intention to open-source what the next provider will need to keep the service running. It's too early to tell what that exactly will be or how it will complement other SNA projects.
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by jhandl 15y ago
Gracias! :)
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by jhandl 15y ago
I'm reading. :)
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by jhandl 15y ago
We are going to do exactly what you described. If everything goes as planned, IndexTank will continue to live on.
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by jhandl 15y ago
The Heroku plugin will not go away, neither will the IndexTank service if everything goes as planned.
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by jhandl 15y ago
"We can launch a short note that appear to recover." Yup. That's what it looked like.
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The Heroku & IndexTank “Build A Search-Based Webapp” Holiday Challenge(rubyinside.com)
13 points by jhandl 16y ago|5 comments
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by jhandl 16y ago
IndexTank is a hosted service, you don't have to build, configure or manage your own search infrastructure.
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by jhandl 16y ago
An overview of full-text search options, comparing Google's offers, WebSolr and IndexTank.
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Options for full-text search (with and without IndexTank)(blog.indextank.com)
7 points by jhandl 16y ago|1 comments
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by jhandl 16y ago
For the contest you get a $300 Premium plan for free. You can see the pricing table at http://addons.heroku.com/indextank
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by jhandl 16y ago
If HN ran on Heroku, it would be trivial to add search to it...
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by jhandl 16y ago
Sphinx does not store data, so you have to get it from your database to display results, it doesn't have query auto-suggest, etc. But most importantly, you don't have to deal with installing, configuring, managing and scaling a sphinx setup
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by jhandl 16y ago
Their problem, as I see it, was mainly that they were using Solr, which requires an inordinate amount of time to configure and maintain (time they didn't have), and also isn't good at handling frequent updates, like the up and down votes.
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by jhandl 16y ago
No, the old search was Solr based, this one uses only the lucene index file structure. Not even the scorer is lucene-based.
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by jhandl 18y ago
I think the bottom left quadrant should be rounded: if a website doesn't scale at all, there's no way it can have a lot of users. I wonder if there are other constraints like this one, and what shape the graph would then take...