"Dev Pays $1.75/Year to Have AI Brutally Roast Music Taste, Still Cheaper Than Therapy"

The user built a custom AI bot called lastfm-roaster on Poe, a platform that allows users to create and train AI models, with the specific goal of analyzing Last.fm music profiles and generating humorous roasts. The bot was trained using Poe's ScriptBot feature and the Gemini 2.5 Flash model, and it was designed to be sarcastic and merciless in its critiques, with the user iterating back and forth with the ScriptBot until they were satisfied with the results. To get the output from the bot and into their email inbox, the user created a Python script that uses the OpenAI client to ping the Poe API, retrieve the roast, and then use Regex to inject random neon colors into a beautiful HTML email, which is then sent to their inbox every day at 12:00 UTC using GitHub Actions. The entire system, including the Poe API, GitHub Actions, and email sending, costs $1.75 per year, with the Poe API charging ~$0.0048 per request, and the user estimates that running the bot every day for a year would result in a total cost of $1.75. The user's goal was to create a fun and automated way to share their daily music roasts with friends, and they achieved this by leveraging the capabilities of Poe, GitHub Actions, and Python, with the resulting system being a robust and cost-effective solution for personal automation.