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Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by kasumis_ »

lelandbatey wrote: post #29
karthikp wrote: post #18

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?

Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine. [0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

SQLITE cannot handle indexing queries of our kind and is not used. We have kept the page slim, so as the website is as fast as possible.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by leereeves »

lelandbatey wrote: post #29
karthikp wrote: post #18

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?

Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine. [0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by zyxzkz »

kasumis_ wrote: post #15
krisgenre wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we DONOT have any plans to monetize So my next question is - any plans on open sourcing? :)

We donot have plans on open sourcing soon, but we love open-source. Making it open-source will be considered in future for sure.

You should consider open sourcing the static pages/text at least, so people can improve paragraphing, punctuation, and grammar/spell correct:

"donot" should be "do not" (separate words)

"atleast" should be "at least" (separate words)

I realize English is probably not your first language, so no big deal, but it would be nice to fix.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by kasumis_ »

chii wrote: post #28
kasumis_ wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, we DONOT have any plans to monetize. NO javscript was a design feature for security focused users. We also DONOT place any cookies (and donot track). We wanted users to experience a fastest experience possible without worry about adblocks, noscripts etc.

> we DONOT have any plans to monetize. i'd like to tweak the question, and ask if you intend to make money with this site, or is it a passion project/labour of love?

It's kind of passion project.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by carbonmachine »

The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially related to this really well done torrent search (so snappy!), but does anyone have a feel for how safe this software is in general? Do security firms do any analysis on it?

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by kasumis_ »

leesalminen wrote: post #23
kasumis_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was considered, but this feature required javascript. Since javascript was not a option, it was discarded.If there is some other way without scripting, please let us know. It will be used and implemented.

It's tedious but can be accomplished with server side sorting. You could have: Name The server side code would interpret the sort and direction parameters and sort results as instructed.

Server side sorting is already being done :)

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by kasumis_ »

carbonmachine wrote: post #37

The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially related to this really well done torrent search (so snappy!), but does anyone have a feel for how safe this software is in general? Do security firms do any analysis on it?

We have an AI based differentiater which detects fake or malware infested torrents. However, since this is alpha state and is used sometimes. Once we are satisfied, it will be deployed. We still have deployed different mechanism to detect and fake torrents. There is also Voting and commenting for the community
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