> although it is limited to 1,000 records and 50,000 API calls per month<p>um, free is nice, but who needs a search engine for 1000 records? You can keep that in a spreadsheet, or sqlite. I think they could bump it up to 10,000 records without cannibalizing any real monetizable businesses.
Great! I am using Algolia and it has been phenomenal. As a total newbie to putting data into searchable format it was amazingly trivial. With their examples and just 3 hours of work I had a Django app pushing model updates into indexes and built a live-search capability into some pages.<p>My only complaint was the plan sizes, jumping from 14-day trial to $50/month when I have tiny amounts of data and querying for the next few months. A free plan will be great.
This free plan is available from our pricing page: <a href="https://www.algolia.com/pricing#Hacker" rel="nofollow">https://www.algolia.com/pricing#Hacker</a>