kerollmops — From Hackathon to Success: The Meilisearch Story — The Bootstrapped Founder 340

Published 11 months ago • 1 min read

Dear founder,

@kerollmops, the technical brain behind the open-source search engine Meilisearch, joins me for a nerdy chat about all things search.

I’ve been using this blazing-fast tech for my own business, podscan, and kero has helped me through a few challenges over the last few weeks. I really want to dive into the economics of building a business on top of an open-source piece of software.

Let's chat about self-hosted search engines today!

🎧 Listen to this on my podcast.

I'll share a few updates about my SaaS on the pod, and if you want to track your brand mentions on podcasts, please check out podscan.fm — and tell your friends!

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