Hibi
An open-source obsidian alternative
Details
- External ID
- 49782528
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hibi
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.32854864433811803
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source note-taking app for knowledge management
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local markdown note-taking app with backlinks and graph views can be vibe-coded using standard web technologies like Electron/Tauri, TipTap/ProseMirror, and Lucene/SQLite.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Obsidian
Concerns raised: design is still very rudimentary
Feature requests: plugin system
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 595 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #424 of 596 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- Files.md · hn · 2026-05-18 · 730 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- obsidian-spaces · github · 2026-09-15 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- silverglass · github · 2026-09-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- obsidian-mobile-companion · github · 2026-09-16 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Loot Raiders · hn · 2026-07-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- atlas-vtt · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- open-annihilation · github · 2026-09-25 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Blast · hn · 2026-08-28 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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