the ad company you don't block
stads
Your terminal pays rent now.
stads rents one line of your terminal status bar, sells it to advertisers, and pays you a flat rate per view. The ad company developers don't block - built by people who block ads, for people who block ads.
npm i -g stadscc && stadscc initDevs - copy the command, sign in once, your slot is live.
Advertisers - prepay, submit one line, pay only for validated views.
Dim segments are the developer's own statusline. The orange, FTC-labelled slot is the rented line - composed in, never replacing.
- billed only for validated impressions
- invalid traffic credited back
- double-entry money ledger
- no images · no tracking · code never leaves your machine
- real money via Stripe Connect
Two doors. One honest ledger.
Whether you write the code or fund the ad, the loop is short and the math is visible. Pick your door.
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Turn it on in a minute
Paste one command, sign in once, and your status bar starts earning. Nothing to configure, nothing to babysit - and you can turn it off just as fast.
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It just sits in your status bar
A single labelled line of plain text shows while you work. No images, no tracking pixels, no background process phoning home - and your code never leaves your machine.
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A flat rate per view
Real money, not points - stads buys your line at a fixed rate per 1,000 validated views, set independently of what advertisers pay. We only count impressions once we've checked they're genuine; withdrawals to your bank carry a small payout fee (0.25% + $0.25).
See what a line of your terminal pays.
A line of terminal text won't make rent on its own - but it's real money, paid at a flat rate stads sets for every validated impression, no matter what the advertiser bid. Here it is at typical volume; open the assumptions to use your own.
Your earning ceiling
up to$21.60/ month
at stads's fixed $2.0000 · 6 h/day · 30 days, at full sell-through
Adjust the assumptions
Every µ$ is on the receipt - your take is the fixed rate stads pays, times your validated impressions, in whole integer µ$ (no floats, no hidden rounding).
A flat rate for every validated impression. Real money, not points.
stads buys your line at a fixed rate per 1,000 validated impressions - set by stads, independent of what the advertiser bid - in integer micro-dollars, paid to your bank in real money (less a small payout fee, 0.25% + $0.25, charged once per withdrawal), and never touches it with a float. No expiring points, no house edge hidden in the rounding - just a small $1 payout minimum so card-transfer fees never eat a tiny balance.
- stads pays you
- a fixed rate / view
- paid in
- real money, to your bank
- counted
- server-validated only
- rounding
- integer µ$, on the receipt
A payload you can read line by line.
To pay you fairly the client reports a coarse, pseudonymous heartbeat - enough to credit the right account, and not one byte of your code. The server, never your client, decides an impression is real.
SENDSwhat the client sends
- tokensUsedcoarse token count, a number
- costMicrossession cost in µ$, as your CLI reports it
- sessionDurationSecondshow long the CLI ran
- linesChangeda count - never the lines themselves
- modelIde.g. "claude-opus-4-8"
- interactedRecentlytrue/false: at the keyboard, or idle
Coarse, non-identifying, GDPR-minimised - the whole payload, not a sample. Tied to a device id so the right account gets paid: pseudonymous, not anonymous.
NEVERwhat it never sends
- your codenot its contents, ever
- file pathsor filenames, or repo names
- your promptsor the model's replies
- your clockwe time impressions on our own server
The payload schema is .strict() - any extra field is rejected, not stored. The source is open; read it line by line.
Where your money is - a label, never colour alone
Your CLI can't mint money - it only reports the coarse activity on the left. The server checks the traffic is real, so earnings start pending for about 30 days, then turn into available cash you can withdraw. When you cash out it's briefly reserved while the transfer clears, then paid to your bank. Anything that turns out to be fake is reversed - credited back - and every move is double-booked, so the numbers always reconcile.
Reach developers who run AI coding tools - and block everything else.
A curated, text-only channel into the highest-dwell surface a developer looks at all day. You set a max bid; a second-price auction charges you the clearing price - never more - and you pay only for impressions that pass server-side validation. Invalid traffic is credited back, automatically. No images. No retargeting. No dark patterns. Advertising is offered to businesses only (B2B).
The math: bid $4 CPM, the runner-up bids $3, you pay $3 per 1,000 validated views - you never pay more than you need to.
- you set
- your max bid (CPM)
- you pay
- clearing price ≤ your bid
- billed on
- validated impressions
- invalid traffic
- credited back
- who can advertise
- businesses (B2B)
- audience
- AI-CLI developers
- ad format
- one line of text