Why I built Arroxy
I've been writing software for years, long enough to get picky about how tools feel. So when I needed to download video off the web, I went through what felt like every option out there, and almost all of them let me down. The free ones were ugly, sluggish, crashed on me, or were missing the exact feature I'd opened them for. The few that actually worked well were closed-source and fenced in: paywalls on basic things, limits that made no sense, and no way to see what the program was doing on my own machine.
So I built the one I wanted to use myself, and I set the bar high on purpose — not "good enough," but better than anything else in the category. It's an ambitious goal, maybe an arrogant one, but it's the only goal worth the hours. And it works out for everyone: people get a downloader that's fast, honest, and complete, and I get to push my own craft and learn from real feedback instead of guessing. That's where Arroxy came from: plain love for good software and the work of building it. It's free and open source, so you can read every line, and it'll stay that way for good.
