EpsteIn
Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections
Details
- External ID
- 46890401
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- EpsteIn
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 83
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8712938005390836
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- searchable public records and archives
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- search public records for social network connections
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It matches names from a public document dump against LinkedIn data (via CSV export or scraping), which is a straightforward frontend and search/matching script easily built with AI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: vLLM for OCR processing
Concerns raised: High false positive rate from name collisions and bad OCR results, Privacy risk of sharing LinkedIn data with external service, Unclear instructions about LinkedIn data extraction causing concern, Rate limiting issues (429 errors), Search API returns name matches without identity confirmation
Feature requests: Local download of Epstein files before searching, Improved search engine/OCR accuracy, Better OCR using vLLM instead of current method, Increase delay parameter to handle rate limiting
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 74 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 75 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
- We built a way to see if you know anyone in the Epstein files · hn · 2026-02-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Epstein Files Organized and Searchable · hn · 2025-11-14 · 329 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Jeffrey Epstein's Inbox · hn · 2025-11-21 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Epstein Graph · hn · 2026-02-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I indexed the academic papers buried in the DOJ Epstein Files · hn · 2026-02-20 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Epstein Files and images (4000 .png files) · hn · 2025-12-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Epstein IM · hn · 2026-01-11 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- LinkedIn-Automate · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.