Your AI is working.
You're getting paid.
The waiting time — the spinner, the "working…" message — is the most-watched space in dev. Advertisers bid on it. You keep 60%, plus up to 15% from your referral tree.
Start earning Advertise herecurl -fsSL https://loiter.dev/install | sh
of every ad you see is yours, paid out from $5.
more from referrals — 8 / 4 / 3% across three levels, for life.
surfaces: the big AI CLIs plus Telegram, Discord and Slack bots.
payouts — monthly for the first month, weekly after.
Three steps, thirty seconds
One command finds every AI tool you use and plugs ads into each one's official settings. Originals are backed up; one command reverses everything.
Ads ride the waiting moments you already stare at. Only real, on-screen sessions count — background agents earn nothing, and we never read your code.
Cash out from $5. Share your link: your tree pays you 8/4/3% across three levels, forever.
Works where you work
Claude Code
Your ad is the spinner line — on screen every second the agent thinks. Attention verified by official hooks.
Qwen Code
Your ad is the loading phrase, with live token counters, shown while the model works.
Codex, OpenCode + 10 more
A slim sponsor bar stays pinned at the bottom of the screen for the whole session — codex, opencode, aider, goose, amp, crush & more.
Telegram & Discord bots
Community bots and personal AI bridges alike: three lines of code monetize every "working…" message.
Slack agents
Agents posting progress to Slack carry a clean sponsored footer in native Slack formatting.
Your own stack
Plain HTTP API underneath — if your tool has a waiting state, it can loiter.
Your link builds a money tree
You invite Alice
You earn 8% of the value of every ad Alice ever sees — every day she codes, for as long as she uses Loiter.
Alice invites Bob
Never met Bob? Doesn't matter. 4% of everything he sees is yours, while Alice earns her own 8% on him.
Bob invites Carol
Three levels deep, your link is still paying you while you sleep.
In real money
A link that brings 100 active developers (~2 hours of ads a day each) earns roughly $500/month, passive, at our $1.50-per-1,000-views floor — before their own invites, and before bidding pushes rates up. Illustrative, not a guarantee.
All paid from our share — the people you invite lose nothing. Get your link on the dashboard.
Run a bot? It can loiter too
Community bot with an audience, or a personal bot you use to talk to your own AI from your phone — either way, its "working…" messages are inventory.
Telegram · Python
Grab loiter_tg.py → python3 loiter_tg.py register → show sb.line() in your status message, call sb.report(seconds) when done.
Discord · Node
Grab loiter-discord.js → node loiter-discord.js register → await sb.line() into your embed footer, then sb.report(seconds).
Slack · Python
Grab loiter_slack.py → register → sb.decorate_blocks(blocks) on your status posts. Native formatting included.
Every plugin is fail-safe: if Loiter is unreachable, your bot behaves exactly as before. Bot earnings are a separate account from your personal install.
Honest answers
Do I need to restart anything after installing?
Claude Code and Qwen: just start them — ads are live immediately. The wrapped tools (Codex, OpenCode, Aider…) need a fresh terminal once (or exec bash -l).
How do I uninstall?
One command: python3 ~/.loiter/loiter_client.py uninstall. Every original setting is restored from backup; your account and balance survive a reinstall. Open a new terminal afterwards.
Is this safe? Can it break my tools?
We only write the official, documented customization settings each CLI exposes — never the tools themselves. Everything is backed up and reversible.
Do you see my code?
No. The client sends ad-view counts and active-time totals. No code, no prompts, no file names.
Will ads pollute my AI's answers?
Never. Ads go to your eyes only — we refuse on principle to inject anything into model context or tool results.
How much can I earn?
It scales with the hours you actually spend working alongside your agents, your audience if you run a bot, and what advertisers bid. We only count attention: interactive sessions only, max one impression per 5 seconds, capped at 8 hours a day. Heavy users with a referral tree earn the most.
I don't use a CLI — I talk to my AI through a Telegram/Discord bot. Covered?
Fully. Add the plugin to your bridge bot and you earn from your own waiting time, same rates. That's how we run it ourselves.