📊 Download
Download for Windows (ACCID_Windows.zip)
WINDOWS STEPS:
- Download ACCID_Windows.zip
- Unzip folder
- 2x click on
Linux Distro(ACCID_v1.0_LINUX.tar.gz)
LINUX STEPS:
- Download ACCID_v1.0_LINUX.tar.gz
- Unzip
- 2x click on
Mac DMG(ACCID.dmg)
MAC STEPS:
Requirements: Apple Silicon (M1–M4), macOS 11.0+ (Big Sur or newer).
Intel Macs not supported.
- Download ACCID.dmg
- Open ACCID.dmg
- Drag ACCID.app into /Applications
Always run from /Applications
(don’t run from the DMG). - Eject the DMG
📊 Core Philosophy
Think: "Create React App" meets "Time Machine" meets "Visual Editor" — but running entirely on your local machine, because we respect your files and your data doesn't need to live in someone else's cloud.
- Local-first: Your machine, your rules, your data
- JSON-based: Simple project files (
.accid_blotter.json) - Non-destructive: Trash system + Time Machine = never lose work again
- Progressive security: Start simple, add SSH when you're ready
- Optional cloud sync: Dropbox and GitLab when you want them
🎯 Four Project Types
(ACCID itself is built with Python/Flask, but these are what you build with it)
🌐 HTML Projects
Web Development Like It's 1999 (But Better)
Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No webpack. No babel. No existential crisis about which build tool to use. Just make websites and deploy them. Now with Adobe-style history panel and pre-built components.
- Zero build tools (seriously, none)
- 📜 Adobe History Panel - visual undo/redo timeline
- 🧩 Special Pieces - drop in hero sections, cards, etc.
- FTP deployment that actually works
- Built-in admin panel
- SEO analyzer (because Google still matters)
- Folder size tracker & health monitoring
- Dropbox image integration
- Static export for pure simplicity
⚛️ React Applications
Enterprise-Ready in 30 Seconds Flat
Full React environment with testing, builds, and hot reload. Skip the three days of setup and get straight to building. We DO NOT "molest" your code — remove it from ACCID and it's just a normal React project.
- Node 18.14 + React 18 + Vite 5
- Testing framework included
- Production builds you can preview first
- Hot reload that actually works
- Component architecture ready to go
- Full npm ecosystem access
- Code coverage reports
- SSH keys auto-configured for GitLab
📸 Gallery Projects
Your Images Live in Dropbox, Not in Git
Multiple gallery templates, Dropbox integration so you're not duplicating massive image files, and the ability to export everything as static HTML. Plus drag-and-drop reordering that actually persists.
- Timeline, grid, mystery dots, location-based views
- Files stay in Dropbox (OAuth 2.0 + PKCE)
- Smart usage tracking
- Real-time updates
- Static HTML export
- ImgBB hosting option
- No server required for deployment
- Fully editable after export
🌌 Waypoint Builder
Connect Ideas Across Images and Projects
Mark regions on images and link them to other waypoints. ACCID finds visual similarities and semantic connections using Jaccard similarity clustering. Your personal creative brain, optionally connected to the collective creative web.
- Visual editor with rich text + code syntax
- Mark image regions, link to other points
- Automatic similarity detection
- 🌀 Galaxy (local): your projects
- 🌌 Universe (opt-in): the entire web
- 💡 Multi-Stakeholder Decision Maps
- ✅/❌ Agreement tracking per perspective
- Visual consensus/conflict mapping
- Spatial viewer (semantic clustering)
- Standalone HTML export
- Lightweight JSON files
🌌 Waypoint Deep Dive
Because "clicking through linked images" is more fun than it sounds
🌀 Waypoint Galaxy (Local)
Your personal creative brain that connects waypoints across all your local projects in real-time.
- Link art direction → assets → inspiration
- Connect concepts across mini-sites
- Build visual knowledge graphs
- Discover relationships as you create
- Auto-finds commonalities (colors, concepts, techniques)
🌌 Waypoint Universe (Opt-in Public)
The collective creative web — when galleries go live, they can join the Universe. The more people who try it, the better it gets.
- Find connections across the entire web
- Your cooking tutorial → someone's repair guide
- All via lightweight JSON files
- Images stay on user sites
- Network effect: grows with participation
🎁 Bonus: Waypoint Creator (Standalone)
Python CLI for creating waypoint galleries without the full ACCID app. Templates for cooking, travel, repair, tutorials. Generates portable JSON files that import directly into ACCID or Universe. Perfect for pre-production planning.
💡 Multi-Stakeholder Decision Maps
Same project, different perspectives, opposing views — all visualized.
Example: New Feature Review
- ✅ "Beautiful UI" - aesthetics, user-friendly, modern
- ✅ "Smooth animations" - polished, delightful, engaging
- ❌ "Too much data" - cluttered, overwhelming, cognitive-load
- ❌ "Beautiful UI" - performance-heavy, render-cost, tech-debt
- ❌ "Smooth animations" - janky-on-mobile, battery-drain
- ✅ "Data architecture" - scalable, maintainable, solid-foundation
- ✅ "Beautiful UI" - sellable, competitive-edge, premium-feel
- ✅ "Smooth animations" - demo-ready, wow-factor, viral-potential
- ✅ "Too much data" - feature-rich, enterprise-ready, value-packed
What This Enables:
- Visual Consensus/Conflict Maps
- Filter by any perspective
- Find where alignment exists
- Identify conflict zones
- Understand different reasoning
How It Works:
- Photos with all ✅ = far apart (everyone agrees)
- Mixed ✅❌ = close together (shared concerns)
- Green/red dot visual coding
- Consensus overlay heatmap
- Perspective filtering in search
Seriously though, the Universe concept gets more interesting the more people use it. Try it out and contribute your waypoint galleries! 🌠
✨ Universal Features (All Project Types)
🔧 Development Tools
- Auto-preview on code changes
- Live syntax checking
- Code coverage reports
- Automated testing
- Hot module replacement
🚀 Deployment
- One-click FTP deployment
- localhost.run for live URLs
- View your project from anywhere
- Pre-configured SSH keys
- GitLab CI/CD at spiffydesign.com
🔒 Security
- Local-first (your machine, your data)
- Automatic SSH key generation
- Secure credential storage
- No mandatory cloud dependencies
- Optional GitLab integration
🗂️ Project Management
- Export/import as ZIP files
- Code stays clean (no ACCID lock-in)
- Works on any machine
- Trash system for oops moments
- Remove from ACCID = standalone project
🕰️ ACCID Time Machine
Never Lose Work Again — Because "undo" is for amateurs. We've got snapshots.
System-Wide Safety Net
- 📸 Snapshot everything before changes
- 🔍 Smart comparisons across all files
- ⏪ Surgical file-level restores
- ↩️ Undo restored versions instantly
- ⭐ Milestone protection (never auto-deleted)
- 📄 Detailed diff reports
- ✂️ Smart cleanup & pruning
Project-Level Version Control
- Independent project tracking
- Restore specific files only
- No impact on other projects
- Complete change history
Rock-Solid Encoding
No more broken restores!
- ✅ Perfect Python indentation
- ✅ Clean HTML (no more class="..." nonsense)
- ✅ Error-free JSON
- ✅ UTF-8 done right, every time
You're basically a time traveler now. Experiment fearlessly, break things, learn fast — then restore when needed. ⏰✨
Time Machine functionality developed with assistance from Claude (Anthropic)
Built with Flask, React, Vite, and an unreasonable amount of coffee ☕
Go forth and build fearlessly! 🚀