IdleAds – Ads in AI's "thinking " moment, devs keep 70%+
idleads.devHi HN, Abhi here, founder of IdleAds. AI coding is expensive and the money only flows one way (cry). My friends and I had been joking for months about renting out the "thinking…" spinner — so here it is: ads in that dead moment, and the dev running the tool keeps 70% of the revenue.
You've maybe seen another version of this going viral. I wanted one that spreads the money out — 70% to devs now, aiming for 90% as it scales.
Impressions are verified server-side, the editor is never patched, and the CLI never sees your code or prompts. Not here to make a killing, here to push some money back to the people paying for all these tokens.
It's early — happy to answer anything.
What is the payout method? And is it possible to install it on VSCode or it must be on CLI?
have you guys started paying out yet?
is this real?