Show HN: Swarm, a beautiful torrent client on macOS

(get-swarm.com)

2 points | by gkaimakas 10 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • inigyou 4 hours ago

    Putting movie posters in the UI is proof of criminal intent btw. It advertises this program is intended for downloading movies.

  • toomuchtodo 9 hours ago

    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.

    • gkaimakas 8 hours ago

      Of course it will be updated in the future. I have implemented a feedback feature to understand what users want and prioritize

    • gkaimakas 9 hours ago

      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

  • inigyou 9 hours ago

    Spoiler: it's yet another wrapper for libtorrent

    • gkaimakas 9 hours ago

      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 :)

      • inigyou 8 hours ago

        Call me crazy but I interpret a new torrent program to torrent newly, else it's just a reskin.

        • gkaimakas 8 hours ago

          By your own definition every program in the planet is a reskin of something if it’s using open source code.

          I’d expect strangers on the internet to be less mean than this.

          • inigyou 7 hours ago

            Firefox on iOS is just reskinned Safari, yes