I've been working on this in stealth mode for awhile now, wanted to announce that we're officially opening up our Alpha Pilot sign-up for Searchcraft!

What is Searchcraft? It's a developer-focused SaaS platform for developers to quickly integrate a highly performant content search into their apps. We built it from the ground-up in Rust, so far the metrics are really promising and we're seeing far better performance for queries per second and concurrent connections than Elasticsearch, Aloglia and Typesense.

I work at a consultancy that does a lot of app builds for small companies/start-ups that need to add search quickly. The dev time to integrate the existing options like Elasticsearch take far too long. We believe developers should focus on building features that make their products great, not toiling away on building search. Search often times takes specialized knowledge to build properly and startups typically don't have the time and budget to dedicate to this. Having experience the pain of working with tools like Elasticsearch first hand, we knew we could built something with a better developer experience.

Our first version that we’ll be launching for our Alpha Pilot cohort will be a smaller subset of our features but we'll be giving away access to this for the first 1000 who sign up on the waitlist. When the beta phase launches we'll be rolling out the first of many SDK integrations. I would love to hear about what you are building and if there is a way that Searchcraft can help.

It would be great to have a competitor in the search space that's easier to integrate than Elasticsearch.