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

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

The Bootstrapped Founder

August 14, 202440m 53s

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Show Notes

@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!

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