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  • Spoiler: it's yet another wrapper for libtorrent
  • It would be foolish to assume that reimplementing a torrent library is feasible for anyone. Open source code is meant to be reused.

    I can assure you that integrating with libtorrent was the easy part and completed in mere hours :)

  • I’m willing to do pay to support your work, curious if and how much this was vibe coded and if you intend to support into the future.
  • Hey, thanks for the reply.

    I had Claude help me with linking libtorrent to swift since this is not something I do at work normally.

    The rest was done by me

  • Of course it will be updated in the future. I have implemented a feedback feature to understand what users want and prioritize
  • Putting movie posters in the UI is proof of criminal intent btw. It advertises this program is intended for downloading movies.