# Acid

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Adrien Koo](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/adrjen)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/drexkooo/acid-web
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/dYtwNVlG0Do
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4421

A manga series starring you and your friends: pick a scenario, add a selfie each, and Meta's Muse models write and draw chapter 1 in about four minutes. Then say what happens next.

Acid turns you and your friends into the cast of a real Japanese-style manga. Pick a scenario card (or write your own), add up to four people with a selfie each, choose a style (shōnen, shōjo, seinen noir, kodomo) in black and white or colour, and about four minutes later you're reading a finished, lettered chapter with a designed cover. Friends can join from their own phones with a 4-letter table code. Then "what happens next?" writes chapter 2, 3 and on with the same cast. Publish to the community, where others read, like and comment, or continue a showcase series yourself.

Live demo: https://acid-oneshot.vercel.app
How it works (PDF): https://acid-oneshot.vercel.app/acid-how-it-works.pdf

Challenges: Keeping real people recognisable across pages and chapters (solved by photo to fixed design to model sheet to every page as a sheet-referenced edit); making it genuinely Japanese manga rather than comic-book (mangaka-briefed writer, magazine-tradition styles, kana-only SFX); catching image-model mistakes automatically (a vision editor loop); and making a public demo safe to leave open (run tokens, caps, spend ledger).

What's next: Acid is a manga studio we're building; this web version is its core loop rebuilt on Meta's stack. Next: readers funding the next chapter, badges, community translations, and the mobile app.

Built during the event: All code was written during the hackathon (26 Oct – 4 Nov 2026). Brought in from before: Acid's visual language (colour tokens, type, button styles), a few art files, the halftone shader idea, and the logo. No app or pipeline code.

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