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Jason Bosco

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Jason Bosco

@jasonbosco

• CEO & Co-founder @Typesense • Open Source alternative to Algolia / Pinecone / Elasticsearch • Revenue Funded & Profitable

Houston, TX

Joined April 2009

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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Apr 8
Imagine starting an open source project You bootstrap it, and refuse to take venture capital And then 10 years later... You see your project's name plastered on 50+ buses in San Francisco Surreal. Feeling. I think we might be the only bootstrapped, 100% revenue-funded open
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Jason Bosco
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Feb 27, 2024
“Contact us for Enterprise pricing” A 　 B 　　　 s 　　　　 o 　　　　　l 　　 u 　　　　　t 　　　　 e 　　　 l 　　　y 　　　n o t ･｡･ﾟ｡°*. ｡*･｡
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Jul 1, 2025
I’m going to show you how *incredibly easy* it is to add some AI-magic to the search bar in your sites & apps in 2025 using @typesense. Say you’re building a cars site & you have a search bar on top. You have cars. Cars have attributes. You have well structured data like make,
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Mar 6, 2024
Found a 🎸Guitar Chords dataset, and thought... What if we built a Chords Search UI using @typesense And also built it in TEN frontend frameworks 👇 Say hello to Guitar Chords Search with ... • @nuxt_js + @vuejs + Typesense • @nextjs + @reactjs + Typesense • @reactnative
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Sep 12, 2023
"Brick-shittingly good" - a @typesense user.
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Aug 31, 2023
Semantic Search is way easier to build than it sounds! 3 API calls + @OpenAI + @typesense is all you need. So if your users search for "ocean" & your dataset only contains "sea", semantic search can still pull up these conceptually related results Step 1️⃣: Create a collection
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Jason Bosco
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Aug 27, 2024
Replying to @jasonbosco
Aaand... 🥁 We've reached 2️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ GitHub Stars! 🎉
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Apr 10, 2025
We did something crazy - we launched HUNDREDS of billboards for @typesense across San Francisco! When I first visited SF in the late 2000s, what stood out to me were all the billboards from tech companies. Until then I had only seen billboards from random lifestyle brands, and
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Apr 28, 2023
Vector Databases have raised $175.5M in April 2023. - Pinecone: 100M - Weaviate: 50M - Chroma: 18M - Qdrant: 7.5M @Typesense on the other hand: - Has raised $0 from VCs. - Instead, is fully customer-revenue-backed. - Is profitable and growing. - Is fully open source. -
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Apr 3, 2024
Just shipped a new MAJOR version of @typesense (open source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone) Features I'm most excited about: - Built-in RAG for Conversational Search - Image Search - Voice Search - JOINs - Search Personalization Read more here:
Release Version 26.0 · typesense/typesense
From github.com
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Mar 19, 2024
Unlocking the secrets hidden in Elasticsearch’s documentation
Interesting Engineering
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Interesting Engineering
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Oct 17, 2023
The search bar on @jquery.com is now powered by @typesense 🥲 jQuery was my first window into the world of web dev back in 2008 and I've benefited from it throughout my web dev journey. I'm now glad and grateful that I'm able to give back in a tiny way back to jQuery, through
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Feb 12, 2024
I've posted a picture like this a couple of times But this time, for a different reason. Logitech now uses @typesense to power their search bar on their site An OG brand whose products I've used for over two decades now. 8 year-old me would have never imagined that the company
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Jason Bosco
@jasonbosco
Oct 23, 2023
Adding Semantic Search to Documentation Search is now trivial with @typesense! In only two steps: Step 1️⃣: Enable automatic embedding generation in the docsearch-scraper: Step 2️⃣: Add the `embedding` field as a field to query on: And that's it! Your existing DocSearch
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