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Snapyo — free TikTok, Reels & YouTube Shorts downloader (video + MP3), built in 2 days

A solo developer built Snapyo, a free web tool that downloads videos and extracts MP3 audio from TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts by pasting a link. The project was assembled in about two days using Claude Code and Cursor, with additional time spent resolving platform-specific issues such as iOS Safari download quirks, CDN redirects, ffmpeg failures on Instagram, and YouTube bot detection via cookie authentication. The developer reports roughly 50 organic users per day one week after launch, with no monetization in place.

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Every TikTok down is either covered in ads, forces sketchy apps, or bait-and-switches with "premium." So I built my own.

Snapyo — paste a link, get the file. That's it.

What's inside:

Built solo in a couple of days with Claude Code + Cursor, then spent longer fixing edge cases — iOS Safari download quirks, CDN redirects, ffmpeg failing on Instagram until I stopped feeding it URLs directly, YouTube's bot detection until I got cookies auth working.

Also wrote 17 blog posts about how downs actually work — watermarks, video quality, MP3 extraction, iOS vs Android saves. Most of what people think they know about this stuff is wrong.

1 week in, ~50 organic users a day. No monetization yet, just running to see where it goes.

Live: [https://snapyo.app](https://snapyo.app)

Blog: [https://snapyo.app/blog](https://snapyo.app/blog)

Feedback welcome, bug reports appreciated.

source & further reading
dev.to — original article Beyond the Hype: Why AI Agents Are Drowning the Web and How to Build 'Blast-Radius Aware' Guardrails Before Your SDLC Breaks Microsoft AI Opens Consultation on Humanist AI Code of Conduct for MAI Models Kimi K3 API: Pricing, Integration and Trade-Offs
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