Spinyield

Spinyield turns your AI coding agent's idle thinking time into a passive income stream. When tools like Claude Code pause to reason, Spinyield inserts a tiny, non-intrusive sponsored line into the status bar — generating revenue for you without ever reading your code, files, or prompts.

How It Works

Install in under a minute. Run a single terminal command or click once in VS Code. The extension does nothing until you explicitly enable it. When your agent starts a long task, one small ad line appears in the spinner — no banners, no popups, and never inside your code or output. Advertisers pay per verified impression, and you keep 70% of every dollar they spend.

Key Features

• Zero-trust privacy: The client only requests a line of text and reports whether it was seen. Your code, prompts, and files never leave your machine.

• Live real-time ad auction: Businesses bid for the next available slot in your spinner. The highest bid serves first — 70% of every bid lands in your earnings ledger.

• Multiple revenue pools: Earn $0.035 per impression, $0.175 per click, and $1.75 per verified signup. Click rates pay 50x the impression rate, capped per session.

• Low cash-out threshold: Withdraw earnings starting at just $10 via Stripe, with accrual beginning day one.

• Opt-in and reversible: Nothing renders until you consent, and you can disable it instantly. Uninstall is one command with zero residue.

Compatibility & Trust

Spinyield works with Claude Code (CLI + VS Code), with Codex and OpenCode on the roadmap. It never modifies vendor extensions, never places ads inside agent context, and fails silently — if the API is down, the line simply doesn't appear. Every impression is auditable through a double-entry ledger, and the team is transparent about the experimental nature of the project.

Who It's For

Built for the 20M+ developers using AI coding agents daily. Heavy agent users earn more, while advertisers reach a highly engaged technical audience during their most attentive moments. Whether you're offsetting API costs or funding your tools, Spinyield turns waiting time into real earnings.