Show HN: Swarm, a beautiful torrent client on macOS

2 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by gkaimakas

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