whydid

Not a mockup

This is the real dashboard.

The exact same pages and components as the actual product — not a second hand-built simulation. It’s wired to a seeded example project (“expense-tracker”) instead of a live daemon, so you can click through everything without installing anything.

Open the live demo →Opens in a new tab, on this site

That’s a deliberate exception, just for this demo, so you can click around before installing anything. The real thing doesn’t work this way: once you install whydid, this exact dashboard opens locally on your own machine, at an address only you can reach — never hosted on whydid.dev, never anywhere we can see it.

whydid Timeline screen, showing a branching checkpoint history
whydid Chat screen, answering a question grounded in real checkpoint history

Genuinely interactive

  • Timeline — the real graph rail, search, and risk filters, browsing an actual seeded checkpoint history
  • State Detail — the real unified diff viewer, on real before/after file content
  • Milestones — tag a checkpoint, watch the ★ badge appear, for real, in this session
  • AI Usage — the real budget banner and chart (seeded to sit in "approaching budget," so you can see it)
  • Sessions & Chat — ask one of the suggested questions and get a real, citation-linked answer
  • Build in Public — draft a real post from a real session, pin it, delete it
  • Settings — every toggle actually applies, for the rest of this browser tab

Can’t work in a browser demo

  • Restore, selective restore, and fork — these need a real filesystem to act on, which a browser demo doesn't have. Clicking them shows an honest explanation instead of pretending to work.