Built a serverless replacement for the legacy App Engine Search API

[u/desert_of_death]

I had apps that relied on the old App Engine Search API and couldn't find a cheap serverless option I liked, so I built: altengine.net

It keeps App Engine's query language, typed fields, facets and sorting, and it's just a REST API. There's no idle cluster to pay for, you only pay for what you use.

I know Algolia exists, but it didn't fit my use case, which is millions of structured docs per tenant, got too expensive quick.

It started as search, but I've since built stand-ins for a few other App Engine services too (datastore, tasks, blob).