Andrew McCalip

Andrew McCalip, a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, launched Kickbacks, a platform that inserts ads into AI agent prompts and shares 50% of revenue with users. The service, which works with…

Oscar built Bacon, a terminal-native ad network that shows ads during Claude Code sessions and gives developers a 50% revenue share. The system features five ad surfaces, a server-set pricing model, a…

A browser extension called Kickbacks pays users $1 per agent per hour to view ads during Claude Code processing delays, with Varda Space Industries' Andrew McCalip reporting $250,000 in ad spend in si…