Kickbacks.ai
Kickbacks.ai is an advertising marketplace for your AI agent
Kickbacks.ai launched on June 15, 2026 with 297 votes, #80 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Kickbacks.ai is a platform that generates revenue from idle time in Claude Code by displaying sponsored status lines to users, who receive 50% of advertising proceeds. Developers benefit from passive income while waiting for AI agents to complete tasks, while advertisers gain access to a captive developer audience through a bidding system. The service monetizes what would otherwise be unused screen time without interrupting core development work.
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From the sources
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.
Advertisers bid for your idle “thinking…” line. You just keep coding. $20 every hour for 7 days. Credited to one random developer every hour. Two placements, two independent auctions. One toggle at checkout. How it works. The counter on the left never stopped — but the instant the 100,000,000 th ad landed in our ledger, it settled. $1,000 went to the developer whose editor displayed it, and $1,000 to the advertiser who bought that exact ad. One impression tipped the counter, and two people earned. Each block buys 1,000 impressions on the surface you select. Every impression targets 10 continuous seconds on screen; measured dwell from 9.5 seconds qualifies under a…from kickbacks.ai
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