Exatorrent
Dev tools
torrent client
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
7 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive work and a good Go learning project
From 2 comments
You have done an exceptional job. Congrats on the productivity!
toomuchtodo on HNVery cool project. I’d love to see more Go projects pop up because they’re absolutely great to learn Go. Have you had a chance to benchmark the maximal throughput? (I.e. 100MB/s…
19h on HN
Low memory use
From 1 comment
Memory use is pretty low. It's around 5-6 MB initially and will increase as you add more torrents. Also you can measure Memory Usage and other Stats in real time in Web Client of…
varbhat on HN
Objections
Built largely from third-party libraries, hard to audit
From 1 comment
Here is some advice I hope you find useful: I wouldn't hire you based on this because all I see is a shit ton of 3rd party libraries stitched together. The exact opposite of what…
creamytaco on HN
No Windows or macOS binaries yet
From 2 comments
Please create Windows binary. Is it possible to control it via web interface ?
majkinetor on HNYes, it is possible to control it via web interface. I wanted to create Windows executable. I tried cross compiling using mingw and asked my friend to test it but it reported…
varbhat on HN
Requests
Windows binary
From 1 comment
Please create Windows binary. Is it possible to control it via web interface ?
majkinetor on HN
RSS feed auto-download
From 1 comment
That looks great, the only think that would make it even better for me would be a section to monitor RSS feeds and automatically download torrents from a set of rules into…
m-p-3 on HN
WireGuard or VPN tunnel support
From 2 comments
What could be interesting is if you were able to add wireguard-go into your project. It would be nice to have a single binary that can run traffic through a VPN and something I…
newman314 on HN> You can route network of exatorrent through network/VPN . that always comes with the danger of not going through VPN if the connection somehow drops or you've restarted the…
y4mi on HN
Questions
How to hide torrent activity on a VPS
From 1 comment
Let's assume I want to run this on a Hetzner box. And let's assume all my activity is legit torrenting. Say, sharing linux distros. They are still not exactly going to be over…
throwaway77384 on HN
Memory usage compared to Transmission
From 1 comment
Looks good. Congrats on this release! How is memory usage compared to e.g. Transmission?
m3nu on HN
Throughput benchmarks
From 1 comment
Very cool project. I’d love to see more Go projects pop up because they’re absolutely great to learn Go. Have you had a chance to benchmark the maximal throughput? (I.e. 100MB/s…
19h on HN
Alternatives named
Transmission
From 1 comment
Looks good. Congrats on this release! How is memory usage compared to e.g. Transmission?
m3nu on HN
Synapse
From 1 comment
Very cool project. I’d love to see more Go projects pop up because they’re absolutely great to learn Go. Have you had a chance to benchmark the maximal throughput? (I.e. 100MB/s…
19h on HN
docker-transmission-openvpn
From 1 comment
Maybe something like https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
sixhobbits on HN