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+# Nyaa replacement
+
+## Motivation
+The aim of this project is to write a fully featured nyaa replacement in golang
+that anyone will be able to deploy locally or remotely.
+
+# Requirements
+* Golang
+
+
+## TODO
+* Tidy up JS and code
+* RSS feeds
+* Adding new torrents
+* Category searching
+* Torrent status display
+* Daily DB dumps
+* p2p sync of dbs?
+
+# LICENSE
+This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details