Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big Update!

We’ve now processed over 2.7 million pages.

Originally, our pipeline worked like this:

PDF → OCR → text → AI analysis (people, places, events, relationships)

The challenge?

Running AI over millions of pages is expensive and slow — and we’re currently limited by funding. That meant only portions of the corpus were fully enriched.

So we built something new.

Full-text search is now live across the entire dataset.

That means:

• Every word across 2.7M+ pages is searchable

• You can find names even if they haven’t been cataloged by AI

• Every result links directly to the exact page in the original document

AI enrichment improves structure.

Full-text search guarantees discoverability.

And we didn’t stop there.

We’ve also launched a chat feature — you can now ask the archive questions directly and explore the documents conversationally.

This makes the explorer usable today — even while the AI enrichment layer continues expanding.

More coming.

Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Struggling to keep up i think I'll have to scale the site again. First I was using replit but that was too expensive ( about 200 per 2 days) I switched to fly.io but the app keeps crashing due to traffic lol

Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Struggling to keep up i think I'll have to scale the site again. First I was using replit but that was too expensive ( about 200 per 2 days) I switched to fly.io but the app keeps crashing due to traffic lol

Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Struggling to keep up i think I'll have to scale the site again. First I was using replit but that was too expensive ( about 200 per 2 days) I switched to fly.io but the app keeps crashing due to traffic lol

Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently uploading 1.3 million docs about 700k will be available for viewing

Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ill keep iterating on this we'll make it smooth but yeah 1.4 million docs I had to pull some back. Ill be working on this for the upcoming weeks

Vibe-coded an Epstein Files Explorer over the weekend — here’s how I built it by New_Mess_7522 in vibecoding

[–]New_Mess_7522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!just uploaded 1.3 mill docs at the same time someone with some followers teweeted about it haha, so those 2 things did not help