🧨 BrokeGPT – Burn It. Blow It. YOLO It.

Because nothing says “modern fintech innovation” like an app that helps you financially self-destruct… with style.


💡 Inspiration

We were sitting around, broke and over-caffeinated, wondering:

“What if ChatGPT stopped trying to help people... and started enabling them?”

So we gave it a makeover, taught it sarcasm, fed it bad vibes, and connected it to your wallet.

We basically built a financial hype man that convinces you to YOLO your rent money on vibrating crystals, RGB toilet seats, or NFTs of microwaved Pop-Tarts.
And then... lets you post it online like it’s a promotion.


💸 What It Does

  • You enter your income.
  • You pick your vibe — e.g. “Treat Yo’ Self”, “Clown World”, “Speedrun Bankruptcy”.
  • You smash the big red YOLO button.
  • GPT-4 gives you absurdly dumb but shockingly confident financial advice.
  • ElevenLabs reads it back in your voice.
  • Tavus makes a video of your face delivering it.
  • You save it, share it, mint it, or deny it ever happened.

And if you’re feeling especially broke, you can:

  • 📝 Log it to your “Regret Journal”
  • 🌐 Share it to socials (with generated memes + video)
  • 📈 Compete on the global leaderboard of glorified bad decisions

🛠 How We Built It

Feature Tool
Terrible idea generation OpenAI GPT-4
Bad advice in your own voice ElevenLabs
Deepfaked facial regret Tavus
Backend and real-time logs Supabase
On-chain regret minting Algorand SDK
Premium dumbness RevenueCat
Deployment Netlify

Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript,Supabase, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Tavus, RevenueCat


🚧 Challenges We Ran Into

  • API sync nightmares: We had to line up advice, voice, and video like a karaoke duet from hell.
  • Tavus render time: Fixed with meme-filled loaders and “regret warmup” jokes.
  • Sharing to every platform: Built a universal social share engine that adapts per platform (Twitter, Telegram, WhatsApp, Grandma-email).
  • Maintaining the chaos vibe without hurting anyone: We made financial self-destruction funny but optional.

🏆 Accomplishments We’re Proud Of

  • Fully built an AI-powered YOLO engine that outputs voice, video, and NFTs in one click.
  • Actual .broke domains generated with live public regret profiles.
  • Users wanted to share their failures. Some even bragged.
  • We laughed out loud testing it. Every time.

📚 What We Learned

  • Even stupid apps can be hard to build.
  • Humor + APIs = joy
  • Regret is beautiful, when version-controlled.
  • Multi-API orchestration takes finesse and memes.

🚀 What’s Next for BrokeGPT

We’re not done making bad choices. Here’s what’s cooking:

  • 🎲 YOLO Roulette – Randomly gives you a digital slap or a fake lottery ticket.
  • 🧠 Evil Budget Coach – Yells “Do it!” when you hesitate.
  • 🖼️ Regret Poster Generator – Printable QR code posters of your worst moment.
  • 🥳 Confetti of Shame – Triggers when your advice exceeds your income.
  • 🧢 Startup Bro Mode – Generate fake startup pitches with the same bad logic.

Built With

  • bolt
  • tavus
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