You’re ok, it’s a fair question. The initial want arose from my son asking me to download YT videos for him to watch offline, and the various youtube-dl, yt-dlp, pytube, etc based solutions all being in various stages of broken, due to how youtube always changes things on their end. I chose an underlying library (pytubefix) that seems to be fast in updating when YT breaks things. Nothing in my app is revolutionary on never seen before, except maybe the ability to choose and combine the exact stream you want, i’m not sure. I took everything I liked in various solutions and put them together to work how i wanted. Then I though maybe someone else might like it too, so i shared it :) I work on it when i want to and just kinda go in the direction i want.
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RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Would be nice if you could elaborate what exactly you did different than all the others?
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
netvor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why? Why ask for this from the creator?
If someone can create new software and offer it for free, they should not also be expected to also create a comprehensive analysis of what other people did and list of differences.
Just take it or leave it, it’s that simple. No need to act as if you’re trying to waste some door-to-door salesman’s time.
GreenSofaBed@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why is this always the top comment when somebody makes something with the same functionality as another service?
It’s just good there are some different options, maybe the UI is better, better tech stack, more responsive dev, who knows.
Webster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In this particular case, OP said none of the others met their needs. I would like to know what new functionality this one has to know if it’s something I’m interested in or not. It’s not a critique - it’s helping me understand if I want to check it out or not.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
netvor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some people see “free stuff”, and assume that it’s now open season on wasting OP’s time.
It’s a good way to kill any enthusiasm. Imagine your kid made a spaghetti portrait as a gift for you and instead of just accepting it you asked, “but what exactly did you do differently from all kids on the block?”
cheddar@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
0% of Rust smh
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ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am a data scientist, so i know python i guess is my only answer lol. I do love rust as a consumer, but I’m definitely not a full scale programmer.