BackSpin Open Attention Exchange for AI Wait Time - Showcase Project

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Rizaldy, founder of Backspin. Thanks for checking us! This started from a moment we all know too well: you send a prompt, kick off a build, or hand a task to an agent, and then you just… watch the spinner. Multiply that across a whole day and it's a huge amount of focused downtime that's worth nothing. BackSpin turns that moment into something useful for both sides of a marketplace. For developers: when your AI is working, BackSpin shows one tasteful, relevant discovery during the wait, a tool, MCP server, grant, job, or bounty, and pays you a share of the revenue for the attention. No extra clicks, no context switching, no feed to scroll. The second your AI is done, it steps aside. Two things I care about most: Privacy is a hard line, not a setting. BackSpin never reads your code, your prompts, or the AI's responses. It figures out that your AI is busy from safe, content-free signals only. It's opt-in and reversible everywhere. Every integration is off until you turn it on, and it uninstalls cleanly. It works where you already do: VS Code and forks (Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro), CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, and more), MCP hosts, and the browser. For advertisers: this is the flip side. Developer attention is scarce and hard to reach without being annoying. BackSpin places a single, relevant card in the AI wait, a real moment of downtime, so it's discovery, not interruption. Because developers opt in and get paid, the attention is given, not stolen, which makes it better inventory and a fairer deal all around. I'd genuinely love your feedback: Developers: which tool or editor should we support next? Advertisers: who are you trying to reach, and what would make this a no-brainer for you? Everyone: does the "earn during AI waits" idea click, or is anything unclear? I'll be around all day answering questions. Thank you for taking a look 🙏