Whitespace.
See who already built your idea — and the space they left open.

CLUSTER GITIGNORE-COMMAND-FILES · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-08-12

ignore file generators

This cluster covers command-line and desktop tools that generate .gitignore files from templates, often fetching and combining GitHub templates, plus one tool that repurposes .gitignore patterns to exclude files from Dropbox sync. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from; it predates the index or its members are undated. The traction leaders, in order, are gitignore-downloader, gig, and dropboxignore, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2018: 1DEC 2021: 1JAN 2022: 1JAN 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
AUG 2018SEP 2026

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 · 3 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 4 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01gitignore-downloader0★4 moliveopen sourceFetches and combines GitHub .gitignore templates from the command line to generate custom ignore files.
  2. 02gig0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that generates .gitignore files from templates and works mostly offline.
  3. 03dropboxignore0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that excludes files from Dropbox sync using glob patterns and existing .gitignore rules.
  4. 04gitIgnore0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that generates and downloads gitignore file templates for multiple programming languages and tools.
  5. 05Gitignored0★unknownliveWeb app that generates .gitignore files by selecting from GitHub template collections and copying or downloading the combined result.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.