daytondoes

Gubbins Goes Off is an AI-powered internet roast engine built around a custom character using my son's voice clone. You talk to Gubbins, give him a topic, and he searches the live internet, reads what he finds, and delivers brutally honest commentary on it in real time. He's mean, absurd, funny, sassy, and occasionally insightful beyond his years. The problem it solves: reaction content is one of the biggest categories on the internet and creators still do it manually. Gubbins automates the search, read, and react workflow into a single voice conversation with a character that has actual personality, not just a generic assistant reading search results back to you. How it uses ElevenLabs: Gubbins runs on ElevenAgents with a custom cloned voice, Expressive Mode enabled, and Claude Sonnet 4 as the LLM. The agent manages two tools, handles real-time voice conversation, and delivers responses with natural timing and emotion through the voice model. How it uses Firecrawl: Two Firecrawl integrations. Search pulls from both web and news sources in a single call to find content on any topic. Scrape reads full pages when Gubbins wants to dig deeper into a specific result. The agent chains these tools autonomously, searching first and then scraping interesting results for more material. The frontend is a custom visual experience with an animated character in a lab setting, sleep/wake states with lighting changes, a classical music jukebox with 20 royalty free classical tracks across the wake and sleep modes, a live search display that rotates through sources, and a lab terminal with real-time "status" logs. Everything runs on a Node.js backend deployed on Render.

Submitted 23 Mar 2026