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Advertisers

Reach developers at the one moment they are staring at the screen.

One sponsor line, shown only while a developer's AI coding agent is working. You pay for verified impressions and deduped human clicks, and the counter is open source, so you can audit every number transparently. Your audience is everyone who runs an AI coding agent all day: engineers, indie hackers, and the growing wave of agency and automation builders living in Claude Code.

Launch offer

Deposit $10, bid your price
per 1,000 verified impressions.

Traditional developer channels start in the four figures a month and climb fast. Here you fund a balance ($10, $25, $50, $100, or $250), bid your price per 1,000 verified impressions, and a second-price auction clears it, so you never overpay for the top spot. Starting a campaign takes a few minutes; you write your ad line, and a person reviews it before it ever serves.

  • Your balance draws down only on verified delivery: impressions on a real screen, and deduped human clicks. Nothing else.
  • Audit it yourself. The counter is open source; any gap is refunded.
  • No contract. Cancel anytime, your rate locked six months.
  • Boost included free on your first campaign.

Verified delivery only. Open-source counter. Any gap refunded. Cancel anytime.

Start a campaign

This is a brand-new channel and it is underpriced relative to what it returns. That will not last, which is why your rate is locked for six months.

Counting you can audit

Verified impressions, verified clicks

An impression bills only after five seconds on screen during a real, hook-confirmed agent session, counted server-side. Clicks are deduped, human, and gated the same way.

Second-price auction

Pricing clears on a second-price (Vickrey) auction, which removes any shill-bid suspicion. There is a published reserve floor and clicks bill at a transparent multiplier.

A published ledger

Developer payouts are posted in a public ledger. If the counter ever shows a gap, the difference is refunded.

Boost

Tip the developers who genuinely want what you sell.

Add 20% to your click price and 100% of it goes to the developer. We take no cut of tips. Developers can't see which campaigns are boosted, so you are never buying reward-chasers: every boosted click was made for the same reason a standard click was: interest. Boost doesn't buy placement or ranking. Tips pay out only on validated clicks; fraud-flagged clicks refund.

Here is what the 20% actually buys. When your campaign ends, your name appears next to the tip in each developer's earnings (“tipped you $1.40”), with an optional thank-you you choose: a perk (“Say thanks: 3 free months”) or a follow link. Your brand lands inside the payout of a developer who clicked you on merit and got paid by you, and every redemption is a developer who chose to connect. You are buying opted-in developers.

Who can advertise

Trust here is earned, and it stays revocable.

Now

Every sponsor curated

Today, every advertiser is a reputable developer-tool company reviewed personally. Self-serve setup, human approval: nothing serves without a person signing off. This is the moment of maximum scrutiny and we want zero surprises in the feed.

Next

KYC-lite self-serve

As we open self-serve, new advertisers are admitted through lightweight verification: a real business identity or an established domain, plus a verified payment method. New accounts start with lower spend caps and tighter review.

Always

Human creative review

Every creative and every landing page is reviewed by a person before it can serve, at every tier, forever. Automated scanning is a floor, not a substitute.

Creative standards

Clearly labeled

Every ad is marked Sponsored, on every impression. Non-negotiable.

No animation abuse

No flashing, blinking, or rapid motion. One tasteful line, matching the app's restraint.

The page matches the ad

What the ad promises is what the page delivers. No bait-and-switch, no cloaking, no swapping the destination after approval.

One format

The labeled sponsor line. No expanding units, no interstitials, no takeovers.

What we will never run

These categories are banned outright. No spend level, no track record, and no exception unlocks them. A published ban list gives us a clean, non-arbitrary basis to say no.

  • Malware, spyware, or potentially-unwanted programs
  • Phishing or credential harvesting
  • Adult content
  • Gambling and real-money betting
  • Crypto get-rich schemes and token pumps
  • Deceptive fake system alert creatives
  • Anything that breaks the agent vendors' own advertising rules

Every link is scanned before it can serve by an open-source safety scanner, then re-scanned continuously. Swapping a reviewed creative or landing page after approval is the one unforgivable move, and it ends the account.

Prefer a human conversation?

You can start a campaign yourself in a few minutes. Or tell us who you are and what you want developers to know, and we reply personally, write the ad line with you, and get you live. There is no contract either way.

Prefer email? sponsors@tipbar.ai. Every sponsor is reviewed by a person.