The Studio
Portland, OR — Est. 2023

Software we
run ourselves.

Every one of these started as something we actually needed. Niche communities — local music, mutual aid, small trades shops — get handed software built for someone else, or nothing at all. So we build it, host it, and use it ourselves.

6
Products
12
Components
25
Services running
100%
Self-hosted
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01 — Products

What we make.

Each one fills a gap nobody else was going to fill — ours end to end, from design to the server it runs on. Open any of them; they’re live right now.

Community Playlist
Web App Live

Portland music discovery and community platform. Event listings, artist and crew profiles, venue and community spaces, a genre wiki, flyer generation, and a social pipeline that pushes shows out automatically.

djangomusicsocialplatformpwa
Open Source Web + self-hosted
CRM by hihilabs
Web App Beta

Field service CRM for small trades businesses — handymen, solo plumbers, small roofing crews. Dispatch board, jobs, assets, contacts, invoicing, and time tracking, without the setup overhead of software built for 500-person shops.

Open Web (multi-tenant)
Buy Nothing
Web App Live

Give, trade, or ask for something you need — Portland only. Installable PWA with claim flow, expiring offers, and a community board behind it.

communityforumblueskydiscordmoderation
edit.music
Web App Live

Mobile-first music file tagger. Batch-edit metadata, artwork, and genres straight from your phone, with a recycle bin and a Lidarr sync bridge.

American DNB
Web App Live

Drum & bass label platform. Artist workspaces with discography import and MusicBrainz tracklist lookup, a shop that syncs from the catalog, and a community board where members upload tracks and stems, comment, and keep the audio on their own Drive.

Open Web
fckry
Web App Live

Small-run apparel and goods store — our own label, our own storefront. SvelteKit front end over a Django catalog, cart, and orders, with a print-on-demand catalog shared across sibling brands so a new shop launches without a new backend.

e-commercebrand
Open SvelteKit + Django
02 — Inside Community Playlist

12 moving parts.

The platform isn’t one app. These are the services behind it — some public surfaces, some quiet pipelines that run on their own.

CP · Artist & Crew Profiles CP · Community Spaces CP · Discord Sync CP · Events CP · Flyer Maker CP · Genre Sync CP · Genre Wiki CP · Ops Panel CP · Player CP · Shelter Listings CP · Social Pipeline CP · Video Harvesting
03 — Platform

What it all runs on.

Our own metal — AI workers, GPU nodes, background workers, and deploy tooling. Self-hosted end to end, which is why a niche project can stay online without a budget behind it.

HiHi Labs
This platform. The workshop everything else is built in — AI chat with tool use, projects, …
CP Worker
Background worker behind Community Playlist — runs the async jobs the site depends on: imports, media …
Fleet Admin API
Automation API for our own server fleet — remote management and scripted operations behind the tools …
HiHi Node
Git operations dashboard for all managed VPS repos. Live status, commit diff, scoop (stage → commit …
SMS AutoReplier
Native Android background service — watches incoming SMS for keyword patterns and fires a configurable auto-reply …
Binsky
Drum & bass producer and DJ profile — releases, mixes, and booking. Doubles as the working …
Lost Signal
3D designer and visual architect portfolio — project galleries, animation reels, and documents, managed from the …
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