I Built Cortex DL — A Desktop Download Manager with Electron and React

Hi everyone,

I want to share a project I have been working on called Cortex DL.

Cortex DL is a desktop download manager built with Electron, React, TypeScript, SQLite, yt-dlp, and ffmpeg.

The idea behind the project was simple: I wanted to build a clean desktop app that can handle downloads in a more organized way, with a modern interface and useful tools for media downloading and processing.

This project helped me learn a lot about desktop app development, UI design, local storage, background processes, and working with tools like yt-dlp and ffmpeg.