Built for the tools developers reach for
The insight
Banner ads die in the terminal.
The status line doesn't.
There's no browser to render a banner, no pixel to track, nothing to scroll past. But there is a line developers stare at for seconds at a time while the model works — the most attention-dense surface in software right now. Ticker turns that wait into income for the developer and a premium placement for the advertiser. Nothing else monetizes it.
How it works
Three steps. One command.
Install
One command wires Ticker into Claude Code and mints your publisher key. It keeps your existing status line and adds the ad beneath it.
Earn while it thinks
A clean sponsored line appears next to your live earnings during the wait — relevant to what you build, never noisy.
Get paid 70%
Every dwell-validated view and click credits your balance. Watch it climb in your dashboard. Highest share in the category.
Why Ticker
The only marketplace built for the terminal.
Both surfaces, not just one
Ticker owns the status line and the spinner. Competitors grab only the spinner. More inventory, more relevance, more earnings — from the same session.
of revenue to the developer — the highest payout in the category. Your attention, your cut.
Privacy by design
Only a language label, model, and coarse region leave your machine. Never your code.
Real watch-time
Dwell-validated views and per-second watch time — attention no banner network can prove.
Never empty
A real advertiser exchange with backfill keeps the slot filled and relevant, always.
The math
Your spinner is inventory.
Cash it in.
Every hour in Claude Code is ad inventory you're currently giving away. Ticker is the only way to monetize it — at the highest developer share in the category, with the ads kept text-clean and relevant.
Estimated monthly earnings
$31Estimate only, at a $6 effective CPM and a 70% share. Real earnings depend on advertiser demand and how much your sessions actually run.
Questions
Good to know.
No. Ticker only sends a coarse language label, the model id, and a region from your IP — never code, files, prompts, or paths. The status line renders from cache instantly and fetches ads in the background, so it never blocks your prompt. It costs zero tokens.
One clean, text-only sponsored line in your status line, next to your live earnings — relevant to what you're building. No images, no autoplay, no tracking pixels in your editor.
You keep 70% of the revenue your status line earns — the highest share in the category. Earnings accrue in your dashboard; payouts run through Stripe. A typical 4-hours-a-day user lands around $20/month, scaling with advertiser demand.
Run `ticker uninstall`. It restores your previous status line exactly and removes the hook. One command, fully reversible.
Every impression is a developer staring at their terminal, waiting on the model. No banner blindness, no ad-block. You get real watch-time (not just loads) and conversion postbacks, with targeting by language and model.