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.
Hmmm... In the code (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
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
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