CLUSTER CHANGES-FILE-UTILITY · 29 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-03-02
Filesystem watch utilities
This cluster covers filesystem watchers that detect changes and trigger callbacks, commands, restarts, backups, or alerts. Dated entries appear steadily but sparsely from 2012 through 2026, with no clear upward or downward trend. Traction leaders are gamin, livediff, and direvent, each with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 7 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled
Operator · 9 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21mulle-monitor0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLibrary that observes filesystem changes and invokes callbacks for events.
- 22back2git0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that watches files for changes and commits them to a git repository as backups.
- 23fofimon0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceFile monitoring tool that watches user-selected folders and files for modifications, alerting when changes occur.
- 24fsniper0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackground daemon that watches files for changes and triggers scripts in response to those events.
- 25auralcap0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that watches files for changes and plays audio alerts to notify the user of modifications.
- 26maown0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDaemon that monitors a shared directory and automatically applies configured file ownership and permissions.
- 27autochown0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSystem utility that watches directories for changes and automatically sets correct file ownership and permissions.
- 28git-etc0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDaemon that monitors configuration files and automatically stores changes in version control.
- 29upi0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDaemon that monitors web pages for changes and executes local scripts in response.
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