Get paid to wait The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched...
Andrew McCalip@andrewmccalip
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Jun 26, 2026
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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
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
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kickbacks.ai
My latest ultra-high-effort shitposting project. It started as a joke, but then actually turned out to be kind of genius?
My latest ultra-high-effort shitposting project. It started as a joke, but then actually turned out to be kind of genius?
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Works in both Claude Code Extension, Claude Code CLI, and Codex
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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
An ad in the context window feels wrong, it breaks your trust. But one outside is totally fine. The vibes are 100x better
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At current rates it easily pays for an entire subscription plan per month. I think it'll be north of $1/agent window/hour
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Of course Fable did the entire video from end to end. All HTML, absolutely amazing @trq212
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I was inspired by the best! @tbpn
(it works in Codex extension too!)
(it works in Codex extension too!)
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The funniest outcome here is that xAI buys all the ad space to be displayed in Claude and Codex 😂
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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?
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It would be so funny if this just became the default way the labs introduce ads 😂
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People realizing how valuable their eyeballs were
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j shaped revenue curves. god i hope i can pay for my Fable costs
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*narrator voiceover*
as it turned it, people liked the ads, they wanted more ads
as it turned it, people liked the ads, they wanted more ads
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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
x.com/collision/stat…
the timeline is a theater stage on which we dance
the market is an arena in which to try stuff
x.com/collision/stat…
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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
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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
x.com/chrisalbon/sta…
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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 👀
$1,000 to the dev whose machine shows it
$1,000 to the advertiser who bought it
2.36 days away 👀
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i'm literally discovering services to use through my own advertisers, this is kind of awesome.
box.ascii.dev
box.ascii.dev
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we just crossed 100k adds purchased for the queue
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1,000+ visits per min at the site 🤑
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This is hilarious, I am seeing all your ads in my own VS code (of course)
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You guys hit all the safety limits on earnings per hour. Deploying new backend now with limits set to $100 per day, I never expected the price to get this high, this is insane.
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The nasdaq of ads. @stripe powering it all.
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Per popular request, edit button added to campaigns
