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your agent thinks. you get paid.

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day one — built and shipped by one person
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Get paid while your agent thinks.

Your status line, but it pays you. Half of everything it earns — yours.

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One small, labeled (sponsored) line in your terminal while your agent works. We split what it earns 50/50, straight to PayPal. It never reads your code, your prompts, or your conversations. Never. That's it.

npx trymeanwhile

Free, forever. This pays you — it never charges you. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows, same command. One line to remove if you ever want out.

Everywhere else
Your attention, taken. Nobody ever sends you anything for it.
→→→
Meanwhile
Same time. Half the money actually reaches you. $0.00

Just for effect — your real number's below ↓.

100%
sponsor lines disclosed
$0
to install, ever
source, on GitHub
network stats, no login needed
1

Install

One command. Nothing hidden, nothing patched.

2

Work like you always do

Tips fill the wait. Sometimes a sponsor does — always labeled, never hidden.

3

Get paid, automatically

Cross $25, PayPal sends it. That's it.

We're not going to pretend they're bad.

Kickbacks.ai does basically the same thing. Genuinely, no shade — here's what's actually different, not a sales pitch. Tap a card to flip it.

• Kickbacks.ai
Install a VS Code extension — even to get the terminal line
tap to flip
✓ Meanwhile
npx trymeanwhile — no extension, ever
• Kickbacks.ai
Live auction pricing — a low bid can take a long time to deliver
tap to flip
✓ Meanwhile
Flat rate — same CPM for every campaign, no bidding
• Kickbacks.ai
Sponsor line is labeled "WITH KICKBACKS.AI"
tap to flip
✓ Meanwhile
Sponsor line is labeled "(sponsored)"

Somewhere, right now.

Every gold flare below is real — a sponsor line landing on a real developer's screen, somewhere on the network, this second.

poke it

Not a static ad. Watch it happen.

Not a mockup. This is the real server, live, right now.

live, from the real server — not a mockup

Every other thing in your life wants your money.

This one gives you money instead.

works with

Zero cold ads.

What could you earn?

Real math, not a guess. Based on 160 impressions per 30 min of agent work.

Time spent coding with an AI agent per day0.5 hrs
$28.80
estimated / month
at today's rate, assuming 80% of that time has a sponsor to show

30 minutes a day covers your Claude Pro subscription. What are you waiting for?

Nobody's earned this yet. Could be you first.

No. Only a random ID and which line was shown — never your code, never your conversation.

Automatically. The moment you install, your dashboard opens on its own — register your PayPal there. Cross $25, it's sent, once a day. See what it looks like →

You get a quiet tip instead. We never force an ad just to fill space.

No, and it never will. The only money that moves is sponsor money — flowing to you.