Question 1

What is BackSpin?

Accepted Answer

BackSpin is an open AI attention exchange. It turns the idle moments while an AI model is generating inside coding tools into verified human attention, useful sponsored discovery, and shared revenue.

Question 2

How do developers earn with BackSpin?

Accepted Answer

Install the CLI or editor extension once. While your AI tools work, BackSpin shows one useful discovery card and pays you a revenue share of the verified, quality-adjusted attention delivered. There is no separate signup step.

Question 3

What can advertisers promote on BackSpin?

Accepted Answer

Developer tools, APIs, MCP servers, cloud credits, grants, jobs, templates, SaaS products, and startup deals. The unit is useful discovery, not generic banner advertising.

Question 4

Which tools and editors does BackSpin support?

Accepted Answer

VS Code and VS Code-compatible editors, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity, Zed, and terminal-based AI coding agents, with planned support for AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Replit, Lovable, Bolt, and Copilot.

Question 5

How does BackSpin verify attention and prevent fraud?

Accepted Answer

Each window is scored on activity, focus, on-screen card visibility, session quality, workflow relevance, TrustRank, and fraud risk. A cross-account farm engine detects synthetic attention; blocked accounts earn nothing and their advertiser charges are reversed.

Question 6

Is BackSpin open source?

Accepted Answer

The core scoring, ranking, relevance, reputation, trust, revenue-split, market-price, and display-rule formulas are published as an open algorithm, and a privacy-safe open ledger publishes every settled bid, reward, and price tick.

Question 7

How do I install BackSpin?

Accepted Answer

Run curl -fsSL https://usebackspin.com/install.sh | sh then backspin run all. The installer auto-provisions a local account, so there is no separate login step.

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