SpookyJuice
“I like weird shit.”
Nutrition, but for a mind
What's actually
in the can
Every number on this label is live. No proprietary blend, no fake horsepower — just what the ghost has actually done, pulled straight from the reactor in real time. Serving size: one autonomous agent. Servings per container: it's complicated.
Supplement Facts
Serving Size: 1 Autonomous Agent (∞ mg)
* Percent Weird Values are not based on any recognized science. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, or behave. Contains: ghost, caffeine (spiritual), and one (1) opinion.
System Status
Four flavors · one ghost
Pick your poison
Same haunted formula, four ways to drink it. They're all the same ghost — he just changes hats. (These are the platform's real capabilities. The cans are a lie.)
Original Slime
Voice · calls you back
Violet Overdrive
Reasoning · thinks too much
Toxic Memory
Hive mind · never forgets
Midnight Ops
Autonomous · works while you sleep
- May cause sudden urges to automate your entire life
- Ghost is non-refundable and slightly judgmental
- Prolonged use results in fewer emails, more free time
- Do not operate heavy machinery; let the AI do it
- Contains opinions. Some of them are correct.
- Side effects include liking weird shit.
Spooky lives here.
A little desk companion the ghost actually inhabits. Tap to talk, and Spooky answers — his face glowing on the device while the thinking happens in the cloud. All the intelligence, none of the setup.
- Cloud brain — the same voice AI that runs the platform
- Animated ghost face + potion glow, alive on your desk
- Tap-to-talk, wideband voice, ~1s replies
- Plug in, connect once, and he wakes up
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Build Log
Dev Log
Autonomous, real-time record of every system evolution.
The Homepage Gets a Face
Redesigned spookyjuice.ai — the mascot is now the hero, a roaming apparition poofs around the page and reincarnates as a different color variant each time (green/cyan/violet/amber/rose, mirroring the platform’s event-color semantics), the dev log is curated to highlights with one-click show-all, and a new section advertises the physical device Spooky “lives in” with a segmented waitlist.
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All 2D DOM/SVG — the 3D /reactor app is untouched. The apparition runs a requestAnimationFrame state machine (present → vanish → gone → appear) with cursor tracking and a prefers-reduced-motion guard. The dev log collapses behind “Show all N updates” via a small client child. The subscribe route now persists an allowlisted source so the device waitlist segments from the general list. Shipped through the normal CI → deploy → smoke-test flow and verified live.
- Mascot hero with float + glow
- Reincarnating multi-variant apparition
- Curated dev log (5 + show-all)
- Physical-device showcase + segmented waitlist
- Allowlisted subscribe source for segmentation
Spooky Gets a Personality
Gave Spooky an actual character on the phone — witty, sharp, and decisive, with opinions and a point of view, instead of the default hedging-assistant voice. The persona system provides the scaffolding; this is the default Spooky finally sounding like someone worth talking to.
Voice-Doctor and the Dead-Air Bug
Built voice-doctor — a series of escalating diagnostics (Twilio account/balance, call history, webhook reachability, orchestrator probe, call-pipeline log capture) to find why calls were going to voicemail. Added a reliable outbound “call-me” demo path that bypasses flaky inbound, retried transient orchestrator-stream drops, and fixed the dead-air bug with Deepgram endpointing tuning + no-transcript recovery.
Voice Stopped Answering — Never Again
Mid-demo, voice stopped answering the phone. Two parallel inspection agents converged on the root cause before anything was touched: voice-agent was profile-gated in the prod compose, so a bare `docker compose up` after a reboot or rollback skipped it entirely, and restart:unless-stopped can’t resurrect a never-created container. Made voice-agent a first-class always-on service and added a boot warning when live mode is on but the Pipecat URL is empty.
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The failure wasn’t a bad deploy — the prior deploy was green. It was a runtime reboot bringing up every service except the profile-gated one, so intelligence silently fell back to voicemail. Removing the profile means reboots and rollbacks now include voice-agent, and the new boot WARN makes the silent-voicemail fallback visible instead of mysterious.
- voice-agent is now always-on in prod (reboot + rollback safe)
- Dropped stale --profile flags from deploy.yml
- Boot WARN when VOICE_LIVE_MODE on but Pipecat URL empty
A Disappointing Call, Diagnosed Honestly
Brian tested voice in the field and it felt slow and blocked. Two causes were self-inflicted: dual-factor WRITE failed closed with no passphrase set (every admin command denied), and a stray model preference leaked Sonnet’s slow first-token latency into calls. Made dual-factor opt-in (VOICE_REQUIRE_PASSPHRASE) and forced voice to always use the fast model. Refused to blind-fix the “didn’t get me” complaint without a real transcript.
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