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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
Get paid to wait

The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth.

So I turned it into an ad marketplace.

Advertisers bid on it. You keep 50% of the money.

Install the extension → get cash from ads.

Introducing Kickbacks
12:32 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
kickbacks.ai

My latest ultra-high-effort shitposting project. It started as a joke, but then actually turned out to be kind of genius?
12:41 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
Works in both Claude Code Extension, Claude Code CLI, and Codex
12:53 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
It was such an obvious idea in hindsight, I can't believe no one ever did it

An ad in the context window feels wrong, it breaks your trust. But one outside is totally fine. The vibes are 100x better
12:56 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
At current rates it easily pays for an entire subscription plan per month. I think it'll be north of $1/agent window/hour
01:01 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
Of course Fable did the entire video from end to end. All HTML, absolutely amazing @trq212
12:58 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
I was inspired by the best! @tbpn

(it works in Codex extension too!)
01:03 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
The funniest outcome here is that xAI buys all the ad space to be displayed in Claude and Codex 😂
01:04 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
The market dynamics are going to be really interesting, it might be the first time the supply/demand book for ads has been a totally public auction?
01:14 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
It would be so funny if this just became the default way the labs introduce ads 😂
01:46 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
People realizing how valuable their eyeballs were
02:53 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
j shaped revenue curves. god i hope i can pay for my Fable costs
03:27 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
*narrator voiceover*

as it turned it, people liked the ads, they wanted more ads
10:48 PM · Jun 12, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
the world is a museum of passion projects
the timeline is a theater stage on which we dance
the market is an arena in which to try stuff
04:49 AM · Jun 26, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
doing it for the love of the game

the timeline is an incredible stage to perform on

i genuinely don't know how I keep ending up in these situations 😂

shout out to the crew at @stripe for helping me pay out 1,000 devs across 27 countries while keeping me legal and tax compliant
03:41 AM · Jun 25, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
ad #100,000,000

$1,000 to the dev whose machine shows it
$1,000 to the advertiser who bought it

2.36 days away 👀
03:16 AM · Jun 25, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
i'm literally discovering services to use through my own advertisers, this is kind of awesome.

box.ascii.dev
03:34 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
we just crossed 100k adds purchased for the queue
03:41 PM · Jun 11, 2026
Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
1,000+ visits per min at the site 🤑
04:04 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
04:54 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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