Idlen
Earn while you work with AI in any IDE or browser
Details
- External ID
- 1240181
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Idlen
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 86
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9815319649347872
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Advertising, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Developers wait on AI all day. That wait is an ad slot. One network, three doors. If you code: install the VS Code, Cursor or Chrome extension. A native ad while the model thinks. You keep 70%. We don't read your prompts. If you sell a developer tool: you show up in the IDE and the browser, targeted by the stack they actually use (React, Python, AWS). Pay €200, get €400 this week. If you shipped a chat app: npm i @idlen/chat-sdk. Three lines. Ads optional. No key, no ads. You keep 70%.
Enrichment
- Theme
- task-specific ai agents and assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- monetization tool for developers using ai
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the IDE and browser extensions displaying a widget during wait times are straightforward, building an ad network ad server with bidding, fraud detection, attribution, and payout ledgers is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: Requires an ad-serving exchange capable of low-latency contextual bidding and targeting, secure extension hooks into IDEs (VS Code Language Server / extension APIs) and browser DOMs to detect AI query lifecycle events, and a double-entry accounting ledger to manage ad revenue tracking and automated developer payouts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 65 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 66 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- ADCode · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Freebuff Ads · ph · 2026-09-22 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Kickbacks.ai · ph · 2026-06-15 · 307 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- The 7-Day AI Income Challenge · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- UCD Ads Network · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- uwait · ph · 2026-06-22 · 180 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop · hn · 2026-02-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MakersClaw · ph · 2026-06-16 · 424 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.