Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
Quick context: I built this from the Open Library (Internet Archive) books dataset (https://openlibrary.org/), as a follow up to this comment on the GoodReads post earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408186Thank you @mekarpeles for helping me get access to the data quickly and giving me pointers about the schema.I should add - I built this in about 12 hours as a weekend project, so there might be some lurking issues.> Details about the Tech Stack:The dataset has ~28.6 million books and is indexed on Typesense [1], an open source alternative to Algolia/ElasticSearch that a friend and I are working on.The UI was built using the Typesense adapter for InstantSearch.js [2] and is a static site bundled using ParcelJS.The app is hosted on S3, with CloudFront for a CDN.The search backend is powered by a geo-distributed 3-node Typesense cluster running on Typesense Cloud [3], with nodes in Oregon, Frankfurt and Mumbai.Here's the source code: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search[1] https://github.com/typesense/typesense[2] https://github.com/typesense/typesense-instantsearch-adapter[3] https://cloud.typesense.org