docs.search("indie, founder, rails, successful") => Jason Bosco / Typesense

In this episode, Jeremy and Jess sit down with Jason Bosco, co-founder of Typesense, an open source, typo-tolerant search engine. Jason shares how he and his co-founder committed to simply showing up every day, putting in consistent effort, no matter how small, and how that patience eventually compounded into success.

We dive into Jason’s journey from VP of Engineering at Dollar Shave Club to building his own company, why Typesense has chosen to stay customer-funded instead of VC-funded, and how open source has been central to their mission of democratizing search. Along the way, Jason offers insights on perseverance, product focus, and the long game of building an indie software company and how it can all good and difficult can take a toll on health. 

Jason Bosco

CEO & Co-Founder at Typesense

Previously VP of Engineering at Dollar Shave Club Previously VP of Technology at Verishop

• https://x.com/jasonbosco
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbosco/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-bosco
• https://github.com/jasonbosco

A good way to describe Typesense is that it's an open source alternative to Algolia and an easier-to-use alternative to ElasticSearch. https://github.com/jasonbosco

Featured Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdH1F6zbIg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER8FDiCMPCY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QymF4NUmALM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNLA8RCrYwk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Z3BYwizzw

Featured Links

• https://typesense.org/about
• https://typesense.org/blog/
• To Raise VC, or Not. Choosing The Road Less Travelled.
• The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
• We bought HUNDREDS of billboards in San Francisco, for our open source product
• https://gorelay.co/t/pursuing-an-open-source-bootstrapped-long-run-path-towards-serving-the-fortune-1-million-with-typesense-s-co-founder-jason-bosco/915
• https://livecycle.io/blogs/dev-x-project-jason-bosco/