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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

439 points david927 | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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rorylaitila ◴[30 Jun 25 13:07 UTC] No.44422829[source]▶
Working on a physical and digital archive of all American vintage print advertising. I've built the archival and database software on Lucee & MySQL to store images and automate, and I use OpenAI to analyze images and extra meta data. All of the full page ads are pushed to https://adretro.com.

I've gotten the process to fully catalog all of the advertisements in a magazine (about 150 on average) down from over a week to a few hours. I should be able to get through the material within my lifetime now :)

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1. DustinKlent ◴[30 Jun 25 16:37 UTC] No.44425242[source]▶
You should organize it both by industry as well as by brand and by year. For instance, if I want to look up vintage Rolex ads from the 1960s I could do that.
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2. rorylaitila ◴[30 Jun 25 18:06 UTC] No.44426198[source]▶
Okay thanks for the feedback!