Yes, it's an ad network in your terminal. No, it's not spyware.

Like a lot of you, I spend an embarrassing amount of time staring at my

terminal waiting for Claude Code to finish thinking. Last week I figured:

might as well get paid for that wait.

So I built Bacon — an ad network that lives inside AI coding agents.

How it works:

• While Claude thinks, ONE clearly-labeled ad renders in the spinner line.

• An advertiser pays for that moment. You keep 50%.

• Your prompt never leaves your machine — only a coarse intent signal does.

• Free, opt-in, and you can dial it to zero anytime.

[terminal screenshot — the spinner ad + "+$0.0051 · balance $41.88"]

I went in expecting the obvious reaction: "ads in my terminal? gross."

And honestly, fair. The whole bet is that ads aren't evil — non-consensual,

unlabeled, data-harvesting ads are. So Bacon is the opposite of all three:

labeled every time, opt-in, and it pays the person whose attention it uses.

Two things I'm genuinely unsure about and would love this crowd's take on:

1. The 50/50 split — too generous to survive, or the only number that makes

a dev actually turn it on?

2. Is "an ad you get paid for" a real category, or am I just describing a

worse version of something that already exists?

Roast it. I'd rather hear why it won't work now than after I've spent

another week on it.

→ geturbacon.dev · install: npx @geturbacon/wizard@latest