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Search happiness
What do you like best about the product?
The developer tools and easy integration w Heroku allowed us the ability to launch quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial testing plans were I believe a little pricey but I believe they have new plans now that accommodate for this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching through ecommerce products can be intense and finding the best related product helps us generate revenue quickly.
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Could not have started our startup without Algolia
What do you like best about the product?
Simply put, it saved us a heap of development time and budget. We could focus on other components knowing the search was sorted.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customizing it to run some api operations requires some skills; still working out how we can do that better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had to get to market quickly and it saved us development time and money.
Just works... and fast
What do you like best about the product?
Setup & configuration was accomplished in an afternoon
You get instant feedback / results
No need to hire resources & spend time on infra to support lighting quick searches
The extra analytics about what was searched on is also great
You get instant feedback / results
No need to hire resources & spend time on infra to support lighting quick searches
The extra analytics about what was searched on is also great
What do you dislike about the product?
It requires some thought and/or additional dev work to work around how the pricing model is defined in operations (i.e. when we need to refresh the index data).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia makes it dead-simple, quick and fun for our users to perform the mundane task of searching across the hundreds of thousands of athletes so that they can then get to the juicy part of checking out their race-performance analytics!
Best managed search service we've found
What do you like best about the product?
Performance! It's where Algolia shines, they can deliver p99 < 10ms response times, the search experience feels instant, making a huge difference for our customers.
They have many available SDKs for all sorts of clients which makes it very easy to integrate with web and mobile apps.
Another great feature is the geo-replication where you can deploy your data to more datacenters and make the search faster all over the world, be aware that this cost extra though.
They have many available SDKs for all sorts of clients which makes it very easy to integrate with web and mobile apps.
Another great feature is the geo-replication where you can deploy your data to more datacenters and make the search faster all over the world, be aware that this cost extra though.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing. For an early stage and growing startup it can be challenging to pay their price. We have to constantly purge old records and optimize our systems to decrease the number of operations which causes some extra development overhead for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using Algolia to power all of our search: from sports events calendar to digital asset management. With Algolia our customers can have a centralized view of their assets and it becomes searchable instantly, streamlining their content distribution.
Powerful, simple to setup, and lightning fast
What do you like best about the product?
I have used various search systems including Sphinx, Solr, direct DB integrations etc. but nothing has been as robust and performant as Algolia. It just works very well.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this time we have nothing to critique as it's perfect for our needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A portion of our infrastructure was used for search which we were able to swap out with Algolia.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a trial. Mess around with the core features and write a bit of code to see what this can do for you.
Best vendor experience we've had in a long time.
What do you like best about the product?
Vendor relationships always tend to promise more than they deliver. This is one of the first one that has delivered as much (or more!) than was promised. I'm amazed at the performance of the Algolia system. Blazing fast, accurate, relevant, immediately updated, elegant, easy to implement, a breeze to customize. It really couldn't be much better.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. There were a few small gaps in the documentation, but that has been the extent so far of anything negative.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The motivator for switching to Algolia was the expiration of our Google Search Appliance. However, now that we've switched, I'm wishing we'd made the jump a lot sooner. What a great platform! Our users are experiencing DRAMATIC improvements in search speed and relevance, and we're looking at all sorts of ways to leverage Algolia for other business needs, from personalization to content categorization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it! You'll love it.
Very easy to start and implement
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy of use. We (2 developers) had no experience with search indexes before, but got up and running in 2 hours, backend and frontend.
- Performance. We still have few users, but searching 15k records takes 4ms on average. 40ms max.
- Pricing is OK. Other search platforms like Elastic Search will cost you less per number of records indexed, but you have to manage more stuff by yourself to keep everything in good shape.
- Performance. We still have few users, but searching 15k records takes 4ms on average. 40ms max.
- Pricing is OK. Other search platforms like Elastic Search will cost you less per number of records indexed, but you have to manage more stuff by yourself to keep everything in good shape.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation lack some real world examples and best practices, like how to keep a Postgres DB in sync with Algolia.
Free as starter tiers have low records limit (10k and 50k).
We have a few concerns about securing data. Some real case scenarios in the Docs would also help us. Like, what are the guidelines to implement Algolia to index sensitive information?
Free as starter tiers have low records limit (10k and 50k).
We have a few concerns about securing data. Some real case scenarios in the Docs would also help us. Like, what are the guidelines to implement Algolia to index sensitive information?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a SaaS and Algolia is currently being used for searching people records. Performance is great.
We intend to use it in more places in the future.
We intend to use it in more places in the future.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a good search and don't have the time or expertise to try Elastic Search, give Algolia a try. It's a lot better than alternatives like SQL search and very easy to implement.
We get amazing search capabilities that wows folks
What do you like best about the product?
We love that it's crazy fast- it's a party trick when we show folks. The results are instantaneous and make our entire site feel faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing is hard to measure as we grow. While I get sent a lot of information weekly, I can't make sense of how that relates to our traffic. I also find it hard to understand how it works with our caching on our managed hosting. When we have an issue on the site, it's hard to understand where the issue is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a complex site with many different lines of business. We're able to go across all of the lines as well as specific offerings. We've been able to make some sense of our specific lines of business, but we still have not had any success with folks typing in natural language queries into the system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Far easier than trying to roll your own search offering, pricing is tough to understand and plan against (for me, as an executive not a dev)..
Algolia was the solution to our e-commerce search problem
What do you like best about the product?
Great documentation, great explanation of the technology they developed and how it works. Really nice explanation of how they approach high availability
What do you dislike about the product?
Very little downsides. Some implementations can become costly, but this one was not. We really appreciate the development time that went into the Shopify app. Most people just make an app in the Shopify store and leave it, aloglia actually put considerable time into the app and has done a really nice job of improving the app over time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving for e-commerce search. Our existing solution had many reliability problems. Greater reliability is the biggest upside.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best enterprise-ready solution for Shopify. We like it much better than our current solution. It is lightning fast. Orders of magnitude faster than our current solution.
Search is hard... but Algolia makes it a cake walk
What do you like best about the product?
Search out of the box, just plug a few things here and there and you are done!
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing is a bit of a problem, especially, the jump from starter to pro is HUGE!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Even though I have used Algolia before in a variety of different ways, at the moment, most recently I used it to add search to a static website which hosts internal developer docs.
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