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Kickbacks.ai – Get Paid for Waiting

19 points by stefan_ 4mo ago

devtoolsguides 4mo ago
Set this up today and ran it for ~3 hours. First session: 407 impression events, $4.43 earned (~$0.011/impression). A few things worth knowing before installing: - Payouts aren't open yet (earnings accrue, Stripe integration is coming but no date given) - No real advertisers yet — they're bootstrapping their own ad inventory to establish the platform - Launched today so unknown long-term Technical details: it modifies spinnerVerbs in ~/.claude/settings.json (a setting Claude Code intentionally exposes) and runs a local HTTP server for impression tracking. Auth token goes in macOS keychain. If you want the full setup walkthrough I wrote one up: https://ayeverse.gumroad.com/l/mktdi https://ayeverse.gumroad.com/l/mktdi
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insapio 4mo ago
For the ad buy side; I made a live data terminal app for tracking the order book, purchased block burndown, and bid pricing calc against volume-weighted average price of the order book. Tracks which ads are actually getting served and what to bid to not overpay or get buried. 943.1 imps/min Top bid now | $111.00 Serving floor | $31.00 Open interest | $1,506 Imps in book | 38.6K https://www.insapio.com/ https://www.insapio.com/
- ashfn 4mo ago
  > go to website, have to login > login, have to pay $7 to even view the product is this satire
noobcoder 4mo ago
How do you guys do the payouts?
- ealasker 4mo ago
  Stripe connect; just about have it up and running
  - Jsttan 4mo ago
    When will it launch?
codepeekr 4mo ago
Btw, you can also try https://IdleAds.dev https://IdleAds.dev which pays 70% and has more surface area where you can integrate.
fvoltes 4mo ago
yo does this work only with claude or codex/agy/opencode too?
- takethebus 4mo ago
  you can put custom endpoints in claude settings.json
dupontcyborg 4mo ago
Hmmm... In the code (https://github.com/andrewmccalip/kickbacks.ai/blob/main/src/activation/selfUpdate.ts#L92 https://github.com/andrewmccalip/kickbacks.ai/blob/main/src/...) the extension polls for updated every 90 seconds and has no digital signature verification... So get a bunch of people to install and issue a malicious update and within 90 seconds, your entire user base has it? I'm good
- codepeekr 4mo ago
  https://IdleAds.dev https://IdleAds.dev is structurally built differently so it's not possible to so, give it a shot?
jervi-sir 4mo ago
can it be used with Antigravity IDE agents
johnba87 4mo ago
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19 points by stefan_ 4mo ago

Set this up today and ran it for ~3 hours. First session: 407 impression events, $4.43 earned (~$0.011/impression). A few things worth knowing before installing: - Payouts aren't open yet (earnings accrue, Stripe integration is coming but no date given) - No real advertisers yet — they're bootstrapping their own ad inventory to establish the platform - Launched today so unknown long-term Technical details: it modifies spinnerVerbs in ~/.claude/settings.json (a setting Claude Code intentionally exposes) and runs a local HTTP server for impression tracking. Auth token goes in macOS keychain. If you want the full setup walkthrough I wrote one up: https://ayeverse.gumroad.com/l/mktdi https://ayeverse.gumroad.com/l/mktdi

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insapio 4mo ago

For the ad buy side; I made a live data terminal app for tracking the order book, purchased block burndown, and bid pricing calc against volume-weighted average price of the order book. Tracks which ads are actually getting served and what to bid to not overpay or get buried. 943.1 imps/min Top bid now | $111.00 Serving floor | $31.00 Open interest | $1,506 Imps in book | 38.6K https://www.insapio.com/ https://www.insapio.com/

ashfn 4mo ago
> go to website, have to login > login, have to pay $7 to even view the product is this satire

noobcoder 4mo ago

How do you guys do the payouts?

ealasker 4mo ago
Stripe connect; just about have it up and running
- Jsttan 4mo ago
  When will it launch?

codepeekr 4mo ago

Btw, you can also try https://IdleAds.dev https://IdleAds.dev which pays 70% and has more surface area where you can integrate.

fvoltes 4mo ago

yo does this work only with claude or codex/agy/opencode too?

takethebus 4mo ago
you can put custom endpoints in claude settings.json

dupontcyborg 4mo ago

Hmmm... In the code (https://github.com/andrewmccalip/kickbacks.ai/blob/main/src/activation/selfUpdate.ts#L92 https://github.com/andrewmccalip/kickbacks.ai/blob/main/src/...) the extension polls for updated every 90 seconds and has no digital signature verification... So get a bunch of people to install and issue a malicious update and within 90 seconds, your entire user base has it? I'm good

codepeekr 4mo ago
https://IdleAds.dev https://IdleAds.dev is structurally built differently so it's not possible to so, give it a shot?

jervi-sir 4mo ago

can it be used with Antigravity IDE agents

johnba87 4mo ago

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