EMBER 🔥 — every abandoned passion still glows

Your abandoned passions get a voice. Confess what you quit, talk to it, then rekindle it with an on-chain pledge — or lay it to rest with a voiced eulogy.

Built for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition (July 2026).

The loop

Confess → Converse → Decide → Commit → Belong

1. Confess — tell it what you abandoned. Gemini extracts your story and forges the persona — picking what speaks: the object (your old bat), the passion itself (cricket, personified), or the younger you.
2. Converse — it talks back, with a real voice via ElevenLabs, matched to its temperament. It remembers your details and pushes past your first excuse.
3. Decide — two doors: Rekindle (it negotiates the smallest possible first step) or Lay to rest (a personal eulogy, spoken aloud).
4. Commit — the pledge or eulogy is attested on Solana devnet via the Memo program: a timestamped, unforgeable record.
5. Belong — your anonymized session joins the Atlas of Abandoned Passions, aggregated in Snowflake: what humanity gives up, at what age, killed by what.

Run it

npm install
cp .env.example .env.local   # add keys — every integration degrades gracefully without them
node scripts/seed.mjs        # seed the Atlas
npm run dev

Graceful degradation (judge-friendly, no setup required):

Missing	Behavior
GEMINI_API_KEY	Scripted demo persona (full flow still walkable)
ELEVENLABS_API_KEY	Text-only mode (first-class, not broken)
SNOWFLAKE_*	Atlas computed from local JSON store
Devnet airdrop rate-limited	Pledge recorded locally, labelled "pending on-chain"

Snowflake

Run sql/schema.sql in a worksheet, then fill SNOWFLAKE_* in .env.local. The Atlas switches from local aggregation to live Snowflake queries automatically.

Stack

Next.js 16 · Gemini (@google/genai) · ElevenLabs TTS · Snowflake SDK · @solana/web3.js (devnet Memo attestations) · Tailwind v4