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RiceLens: Filter & Search Your Dotfiles

Dotfile enthusiasts struggle to find the right configurations for their specific distro, window manager, and color scheme because existing communities lack advanced filtering and search. RiceLens aggregates and indexes dotfiles from community posts, providing precise, searchable, and filterable listings while crediting original authors, enabling users to quickly discover and adopt the perfect setup.

Quantitative Score Breakdown

complaint frequency
1.5
growth rate
9
competition density
10.5
monetization potential
9
technical feasibility
7.5
search interest
4.8

Evidence Signal (1)

Raw Posts
hn • r/hackernews

Comment on: I scraped the r/unixporn and made it filterable by distro, WM, and colorscheme

been lurking here for years and the one thing that always bugged me: there's no way to search this sub by distro, WM, or colorscheme. so I scraped over 4000+ rices which had genuine github dotfiles links (from 200k+ posts from here) and built a site where you can actually filter by all of that, plus search by title/author and sort newest/oldest/random.link to the site: https://dotfiles.lol/every rice links back to the original reddit post and credits the original author. if you've got your own dotfiles and want them listed separately (not scraped, submitted directly), there's a simple github P