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by amber_raza 168 days ago
Thanks! I just took a look at MediSearch. It looks really clean.

You are definitely right that Live APIs come with their own headaches (mostly latency and rate limits).

For now, I chose this path to avoid the infrastructure overhead of maintaining a massive fresh index as a solo dev. However, I suspect that as usage grows, I will have to move toward a hybrid model where I cache or index the 'head' of the query distribution to improve performance.

Always great to meet others tackling this space. I’d love to swap notes sometime if you are open to it.