Meanwhile

Meanwhile wires into Claude Code and Copilot CLI's status line. Most of the time it shows a real tip. Sometimes it shows a disclosed "(sponsored)" line instead, and when that happens you get half of what the sponsor actually paid, tracked live and paid out via PayPal once you cross $25.

It never reads your code or your prompts -- only that a line was shown, and for how long. Billing requires real, moving session evidence (cost/tokens actually increasing), so a script pinging the endpoint on a timer can't fake payouts.

Install with: npx trymeanwhile

Built by a 14-year-old solo developer. Real advertiser demand is still small, so today's payouts are modest, but the billing math is fully real and auditable via a public /network-stats page.