By now, I think that it is safe to assume that most tech savvy people know what bit torrent is and appreciate it to some degree. BT is a really useful and interesting thing, but there are a lot of hard and interesting problems to solve.
The problem that I've been thinking about a lot lately is how to setup seed nodes on boxes that don't have a lot of disk space or ram available. The example that comes to mind is trying to setup a system that can serve lots of different torrents on a small slicehost box or the like.
So, when designing an application to work in these restricted environments, this is what I'd want:
- Provide a simple command line interface
- Be able to quickly deploy with a single configuration file
- Monitor one or more xml feeds or directories to automatically add torrents to the queue