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.

How do developers earn with BackSpin?

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.

What can advertisers promote on BackSpin?

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

Which tools and editors does BackSpin support?

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.

How does BackSpin verify attention and prevent fraud?

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.

Is BackSpin open source?

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.

How do I install BackSpin?

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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July 8, 2026

What is AI wait-state monetization?

A plain-English explainer of AI wait-state monetization: what a wait state is, why it is valuable attention, and how an open attention exchange prices it fairly.

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AI wait-state monetization means turning the idle seconds while an AI model generates into value, without interrupting the developer. It is a new category because the old ad primitive, impression to click, does not fit a moment when the user often cannot click.

The unit is attention, not the impression

BackSpin measures quality-adjusted attention-seconds: real, focused, human attention during a wait, scored and discounted by quality. Advertisers bid a CPAS price and are billed only as verified attention is delivered.

Where the terms are defined

If a term here is unfamiliar, the BackSpin glossary defines every concept, from attention windows and TrustRank to share of voice and sponsored MCP, in plain language.