Core idea
Hibi (日々) is Japanese for “day-to-day.” It’s also the name of an artisan keycap maker whose work on GMK Dracula years ago inspired both the name and the logo.
Work on Hibi began because I wanted a single click to restart Console’s frontend and backend services.
Over time, its scope grew alongside my local AI stack. Local AI quickly becomes an operations problem: models, ports, services, endpoints, and supporting processes all need to be running in the right place at the right time.
01 UX
Hibi is designed as a lightweight operational control surface rather than a full desktop application.
- Menu-bar app
- Manages cross-platform LLM inference
- Manages virtual-environment lifecycles for supporting services
- Uses
yt-dlpfor quick media grabs
02 Services
Supporting services are managed alongside inference rather than through separate terminals and scripts.
- Local TTS
- Runtime controllers
- Supporting APIs
- Configuration and endpoint management