Kickbacks finally launches in India - it pays you to use Claude Code

Kickbacks is finally in India, and the model is genuinely interesting: it pays you to use Claude Code.

The pitch: while your agent runs, the normal "thinking..." / "ruminating..." spinner - the dead time where nothing happens - becomes a sponsored text ad slot. And you get a cut of the revenue.

How it works

• You code -> the agent thinks -> ads pay you.
• Only for Claude Code - not OpenCode, not Hermes (yet).
• Boosted vs Private mode - you use the same agent, just with a text ad in the thinking slot.

The honest bit from the reel: I do not use it much yet. But it is there, and it is real.

The money flow

Advertisers -> kickbacks.ai -> you, 50% back. It was US-only before - now it is in India with one-click withdrawal.

Best part: your dev experience is zero change. The agent still works exactly as before - there's just a useful text ad where the spinner used to be.

Bottom line

Free to install, works while you work. If ads pay you to run the same LLM you already pay for, that is a meaningful chunk of your cost back.

Drop "KICKBACKS" if you try it.