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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%.
PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 86 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: alternative advertising marketplaces · 168 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Advertising
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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More like this: all 168 launches in alternative advertising marketplaces →
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 : 218 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 219 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- ADCode · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MusedIn · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- FirstUser · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Freebuff Ads · ph · 2026-09-22 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Kickbacks.ai · ph · 2026-06-15 · 307 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AIRewards · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- The 7-Day AI Income Challenge · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Prompt & Circumstance · ph · 2026-11-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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