🔥 Roast Generator 9000

Type a name. Get absolutely cooked. (Lovingly.)

A classroom-friendly roast generator with 398 gentle burns, animated gradients, and confetti. Single static HTML file — zero build step.

Live: https://shannon1980.github.io/roast-generator-9000/

Features

• 398 classroom-friendly roasts that target quirky habits, not people
• Deck-shuffle randomizer (every roast plays before any repeats)
• Confetti burst on each roast (pauses when idle to save battery)
• Web Share API + clipboard fallback for sharing
• Permalink support: ?name=Jordan pre-fills, ?name=Jordan&go=1 auto-roasts
• Light name filter (strips non-letter chars + low-effort profanity)
• Installable as a PWA
• Respects prefers-reduced-motion

Run locally

It's one HTML file. Open index.html in any modern browser, or:

python3 -m http.server 8000
# then open http://localhost:8000

Files

File	What it is
index.html	The whole app
manifest.json	PWA manifest
favicon.svg	Inline gradient + flame icon
og-image.png	1200×630 social preview card
og-image.html	Source for the OG image (re-render with headless Chrome if you change it)

Re-rendering the OG image

"/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" \
  --headless --disable-gpu --hide-scrollbars \
  --window-size=1200,630 --virtual-time-budget=4000 \
  --screenshot=og-image.png "file://$PWD/og-image.html"

Adding more roasts

Edit the ROASTS array in index.html. Use {name} as the placeholder — it'll be substituted and HTML-escaped automatically.

Tone guidelines:

• Target habits, not appearance, identity, family, or socioeconomic stuff
• Observational and specific (not generic insults)
• Should land with a laugh, not a sting

License

MIT — see LICENSE.