SkyTorrents
Data
torrent search engine
SHOW HN2017
1,183points
346comments
#3of 2,242 in 2017
Top 1%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
67 positive, 103 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 29 critical, out of 202 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 25 for, 4 againstDesign: 7 for, 9 againstPerformance: 16 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 2 for, 6 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Very fast page load speed
From 3 comments
#1 on HackerNews -> [Dynamic Search-Result] Page served in 39µs What kind of dark magic is this? What's your stack?
julius on HNRidiculously fast! Would love to hear about your stack. C, what else? What database, template library?
sfilargi on HNI can't get over how fast this site is. Try the site in dillo or netsurf for a blazing fast torrent search experience.
leni536 on HN
No JavaScript or cookies; clean design
From 2 comments
Don't you realize that you can't build a usable site without mountains of JS and user-tracking scripts? /sarcasm It's really refreshing to see a fast, small efficient site that…
CaptSpify on HNI appreciate how well this service is made. It's fast and looks nice without any useless dynamic crap to slow it down. You don't need JavaScript and 200 resources to make a nice…
arghwhat on HN
Objections
Name may conflict with UK broadcaster Sky
From 2 comments
hey, just a thought, but at some point if this gets too popular you will probably get a message from the UK TV company SKY who wont be super happy about your name.
nemof on HNUh, could purely be a coincidence but the favicon looks identical to the logo of UK TV corporation Sky (albeit with less colour):…
jordsta on HN
Indian domain and DMCA handling concerns
From 2 comments
I'd suggest using another TLD or having multiple TLDs to avoid losing it even temporarily (if at all someone decides to take this domain down). The .in TLD policies [1] require a…
newscracker on HNThis is blazing fast, congrats! However, I am concerned by the use of IN domain. Indian govtt frequently asks ISPs to block sites to avoid piracy. How do you plan to avoid…
whocanfly on HN
Search does not index file names inside torrents
From 1 comment
Hi, Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent.…
jimparkins on HN
Requests
Search inside torrent file names
From 1 comment
Ability to search inside torrents is being considered and will be added soon.
kasumis_ on HN
Tor onion service
From 2 comments
Definitely will setup a tor onion service ASAP.
kasumis_ on HNWe are planning to put up a tor onion frontend and thus tor users can browse even more anonymously.
kasumis_ on HN
Serve magnet links only or keep .torrent files
From 2 comments
Suggestion: get rid of the torrent files and just serve magnet urls in plain text without a clickable button. This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and…
yakult on HNPlease don't remove downloads of .torrent files. If you don't have this it's impossible to know what files are in the torrent (or even how big they are!) without connecting to…
EE84M3i on HN
API access
From 2 comments
Will you offer any type of API? I'd be interested
diegorbaquero on HNAny plans on providing search API?
shadyabhi on HN
Questions
How is the site funded and who pays for servers?
From 3 comments
That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site. Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?
karthikp on HNThat's very fast. How much hardware did you have to throw at this? Also, who pays the servers (since you aren't accepting donations)?
vog on HNI applaud the effort, but what's the model for making money? Are you just self funding this?
DeepYogurt on HN
What is the tech stack?
From 2 comments
Ridiculously fast! Would love to hear about your stack. C, what else? What database, template library?
sfilargi on HNThis is absolutely incredible, and the load times are incomprehensible for a modern site. What software powers the site? I did some looking and discovered it uses Bulma [1]…
mc42 on HN
Is the site legal and how does it handle DMCA?
From 2 comments
I see that you are based out of India. How do you plan on dealing with law enforcement issues? (Great site, btw).
middleclick on HNNotice how they make it difficult and painful to file DMCA complaints: https://www.skytorrents.in/dmca Genius.
raldu on HN
Alternatives named
Torrentz2
From 1 comment
Decent search engine. I'll keep this in mind if torrentz2.eu goes down. Maybe consider supporting an alternate way to access your website as a Tor onion service too?
beardog on HN
filelisting.com
From 1 comment
Hi, Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent.…
jimparkins on HN