He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.
One engineer sold the loading line developers stare at inside Claude Code and served 100 million ads on a surface he does not own. Six networks copied him in a month, two are already dead, and the wait they sell is shrinking.
Featuring: Andrew McCalip, Kickbacks, Anthropic, Claude Code, Codebacks, Idlen, Idle Dev, AdGuard, Gravity, Perplexity, Time, Ally Bank, Ramp, Linear, Varda Space
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Chapters:
(00:00) A founding engineer calls the Claude Code spinner the most watched line on Earth
(00:35) Kickbacks sells the wait: $2 per thousand, half to the developer
(02:14) Six copycat networks in a month, and two already shut down
(02:35) AdGuard reads the code and prices a developer's data at $75 a year
(03:29) Anthropic's Super Bowl ad said no ads in Claude, and its answer so far is a setting
(04:11) The wait itself is shrinking as Claude Code moves to the cloud
(05:47) Sell the line you own, without a network
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