[jamesmcintyre]

EDIT: never mind, I didn't read your whole post, looks like you guys are working on an opensource option. Great!

Metal looks awesome. I've been comparing vector db solutions so your simple/abstracted sdk looks awesome. One thing I'd mention is with a solution like this that could be so critical to an apps functionality (and therefore so integrated into various parts of the app) I'd love to see that your team is vowing to give some sort of opensource self-hosted option. I want to root for any startup that is letting devs move faster in this area but there's a fear of committing to a solution that may pivot or be acquired/discontinued. Maybe even vowing a "safe-exit" for customers like I think rethinkdb did.

Good luck, looks awesome!

[jxodwyer1]

We agree with the sentiment; we’re currently figuring out the pieces we want to open source, as much of it is just infra (like the ingest pipeline). But the search server and some of our future work around memory will get open-sourced first.