Typesense
Typesense is a Houston-based open-source search engine company founded by Jason Bosco and Kishore Nallan, incorporated in 2016 and open-sourced in 2018.
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Typesense is a Houston-based open-source search engine company founded by Jason Bosco and Kishore Nallan, incorporated in 2016 and open-sourced in 2018. It is bootstrapped and customer-funded. Its developer-friendly, typo-tolerant search engine delivers sub-50ms results with built-in vector/semantic search, hybrid search and conversational RAG, available self-hosted or via Typesense Cloud, and serves customers such as Codecademy, Logitech and BBC Maestro.
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