
Algolia Stories
Thoughts & experiences from the Algolia team & community

Scott Mathson
Maker. Musician. Consultant & Entrepreneur. Founder Plink, Makerviews, & more. Formerly amplitude, algolia, netlify, auth0.

Peter Villani
Started writing this blog to reflect on my writing craft. I have another blog where I publish fiction and creative non-fiction. www.codeharmonics.com.
Latest Posts

How to Unlock Time for Side Projects During Working Hours
Algolia is a fast-scaling company: we were about 120 when I joined in August 2017 and grew to 300 by the time of writing this article. We…

Google Maps API : Where do we go from here ?
On May the 9th, the Google monolith announced a massive price increase for several of its APIs, which were until then free or at least…

Culture as a Growth Driver
I have a philosophy… if you hire the right people and empower them, then magic will happen.

A search engine in CSS
Last November I had the opportunity and the pleasure to give a talk at dotCSS. All the dotConferences are high quality, but dotCSS is my…

Why Hosted Search Made Sense for Grantmakers.io
In Part I of this post, I announced two major additions to Grantmakers.io, a site I built to help nonprofit fundraisers find basic…

Algolia resources for the Hackference hackathon 🛠😺
Hello Hackference hackers! I’m Josh from @Algolia, also as known as the person who just showed you how to search Mike Elsmore’s tweets in…

Internal Tools — The Best Training Ground for Product Builders
As engineers, we always strive for best possible solutions to problems. Solving people problems by building great products is a key part of…

Should an Engineer Attend a Public Speaking Workshop?
Over the course of my career, I watched many developer talks and knew that my time would come to give some. However, I never thought I…

The New Paradigm: Engineers as Marketers
Having engineers deeply engaged in marketing is the only way for a developer tool to succeed.

Curing blank page syndrome: turn every engineer into a writer
To be honest, I don’t even know where to begin…
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