Launched this week
Kickbacks.ai
Get paid to wait for Claude Code to finish
423 followers
Get paid to wait for Claude Code to finish
423 followers
Kickbacks.ai helps developers get paid for AI-agent wait states. Advertisers bid for a tiny sponsored status line; users get 50% of ad revenue.
Clever and slightly surreal market: monetizing agent wait states. I like the 50/50 revenue share. How are you thinking about keeping sponsored status lines useful to developers rather than just another ad surface?
The wait state being monetizable is a clever reframe. You're paying for that idle time regardless, so turning it into a revenue split actually fits how agent workflows already feel. Curious how you keep the sponsored line from getting visually noisy when someone's mid-task.
"Get paid to wait" is such a fun hook — turning agent dead time into revenue is genuinely clever. Congrats on the launch! How do you keep the sponsored status line feeling useful rather than just another ad?
Great idea, but it currently only supports Stripe payouts, which are not available in some countries. I’m also experiencing some issues with logging in.
I wish it supported PayPal or direct bank payouts as well, and that the login issues were fixed.
By the way, the idea is really good, and I genuinely like the product.
Love the concept. I spend hours with Claude Code daily and the wait states during long refactoring sessions are real — nice to know there's finally a way to make that dead time productive.
The status line integration is smart because it's non-intrusive. I've tried similar ad-based developer tools before but they always felt like context switches. This one stays in the flow.
Quick question: does the status line script only read the JSON payload, or does it also have access to the editor context (file names, project paths)? That would matter a lot for the privacy-conscious crowd.
Either way, great launch 👏
the sponsored status line during Claude Code wait states is a clever attention arbitrage but the value to advertisers depends entirely on who's watching. a developer waiting for an agent run is staring at a terminal or has switched tabs entirely. curious what the actual attention model looks like and whether there's any data on how often developers are actively watching the status line versus doing something else while the agent runs