This is very cool! Your readme is intersting and well written - I didn't know I could be so interested in the internals of a full text search engine :)

What was the motivation to kick this project off? Learning or are you using it somehow?

I’m learning the internals of FTS engines while building a vector database from scratch. Needed a solid FTS index, so I built one myself :)

It ended up being a clean, reusable component, so I decided to carve it out into a standalone project

The README is mostly notes from my Notion pages, glad you found it interesting!

What are you building a vector database from scratch for?

Mostly wanted a refresher on GPU accelerated indexes and Vector DB internals. And maybe along the way, build an easy on-ramp for folks who want to understand how these work under the hood

Agreed - Effort/Cost/Time is what always nips my self-host projects out of the gate. I start working down the recursive thought experiment of everything I "need" to get an email server working (for example) and bail when I see the list.

Convincing the family to buy in is hard too because (as you put) I can't promise the same level of redundancy/service guarantees.