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uwait
Get paid while AI thinks
51 followers
Get paid while AI thinks
51 followers
Every time you use ChatGPT or Claude, you wait. Usually 3 to 8 seconds. That's it. That's the idea. uwait is a Chrome extension that shows a curated ad during that loading screen. You get a small cut. The publishers whose content trained the AI get a cut too. The advertiser gets your attention at a moment when you're actually paying attention. The split: 50% to users, 30% to publishers, 20% to us. We're picky about advertisers. Just brands that make sense in that context.
Buska
Hey Product Hunt, Tristan here.
I built uwait because I got tired of staring at a loading screen every time I asked ChatGPT something.
That's it. That's the whole origin story.
Three seconds. Five seconds. Sometimes more. Multiplied by every query I do in a day, every day. At some point I thought, that's a lot of attention going nowhere. And attention is worth something.
So I built a Chrome extension that shows a small ad during that wait. You earn from it. Publishers whose content trained the AI you're using earn from it too. We take 20%.
No account to create. No surveys. No referral schemes. You install it, use AI like you normally would, and money accumulates in the background.
I've been running it myself for a few weeks now. It's not life-changing money. But it's real money, for time you were already spending doing nothing.
The extension is live at uwait.co. There are already a few advertisers running so you'll actually see ads from day one.
Curious what you think. Happy to answer anything below.
This is one of the more unusual ideas I’ve seen here. I like the observation that AI waiting time is basically unused attention. Everyone who uses ChatGPT or Claude a lot knows those few seconds add up, especially during a busy day. The revenue split is also interesting, especially the publisher part. I’m curious how you decide which publishers should get paid from a given interaction, since AI training data and attribution can get very messy very quickly.
My main question is about the user experience: how do you make sure the ads stay lightweight enough that they don’t make AI tools feel more distracting or noisy over time?
monetizing the loading screen is one of those ideas where you hear it and think "why didn't anyone do this already." the 50/30/20 split with publishers getting a cut is a smart way to address the "AI trained on our content" argument too. curious how you keep the ad quality high at scale though because the moment it starts feeling spammy the whole value prop falls apart