Podcastsaver.com – a search engine testbench dressed as a podcast site
Hey HN, I submitted PodcastSaver (https://podcastsaver.com) before but the reason it's interesting now is that I've started converting it into a live search engine test-bench. I've discussed it a bit here[0], and this idea has been kicking around in my head for a while so I got a chance to do some related writing about it with Supabase[1]. The basic idea is to use a modest piece of the podcast index[2] as a place to test out different new age search engines against each other. So far there are two engines running: - Postgres FTS + pg_trgm (tuned -- indices are there, I did some…
In plain words
Podcastsaver.com is a podcast search engine that functions as a testbench for comparing different search technologies. Users can search a subset of the podcast index while the site simultaneously runs multiple search engines in the background, including PostgreSQL full-text search and Meilisearch, to evaluate their performance and relevance. A dedicated "nerds" page allows technical users to inspect how different search approaches handle the same queries.
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Hey HN, I submitted PodcastSaver (https://podcastsaver.com) before but the reason it's interesting now is that I've started converting it into a live search engine test-bench. I've discussed it a bit here[0], and this idea has been kicking around in my head for a while so I got a chance to do some related writing about it with Supabase[1]. The basic idea is to use a modest piece of the podcast index[2] as a place to test out different new age search engines against each other. So far there are two engines running: - Postgres FTS + pg_trgm (tuned -- indices are there, I did some EXPLAINing earlier today to tighten things up, but still all built-in tech) - Meilisearch (untuned -- just stand it up, give it resources and put in documents) To that effect, I've added a "nerds" page you should peruse: https://podcastsaver.com/nerds On that page you can: - choose your search engine - choose whether to force disable the cache (obviously... you'd want that, for the results to mean anything, but for regular people surfing the cache is on!) As far as actually getting the podcast search really good, there is a ton of curation left to do so it's a subpar consumer product still, but it's interesting from at least this angle! Going to add more search engines later but who knows when (this project was supposed to be short!). I can't add every engine on the huge list of new-age search engines[3], but I can say that I will get to highlighting all of them in Awesome F/OSS[4]... Eventually. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33316029 [1]: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-vs-the-rest [2]: https://podcastindex.org/ [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317232 [4]: https://awsmfoss.com
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Hi HN, wanted to share a project that I’ve been working on recently. PodText allows users to find anything said on a podcast. You can also listen and share clips to a specific part of the podcast audio, simply by highlighting the text of that part. Currently there are just over 25k podcast episodes and I’m adding a lot more in the coming weeks (yes my GPU bill is painful). In order to monetize it, I’m building a sponsorship database to help sponsors find podcasts and vice versa. This will be sold in the form of a $99/month “PodText Business” subscription. I bet I could charge a lot more…
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