Andrew McCalip ✓
@andrewmccalip · El Segundo, CA · joined 28 Nov 2013
"the guy with a lot of hobbies" Accidental ad empire @ https://t.co/7OKQXtdFdo. Former: Founding team @ Varda Former: Co-Founder Cosine Additive, acquired by GE
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With all the conversation about AI and bio right now, you need to go read Biohazard by Ken Alibek. Absolutely insane stories about monkeys, lab leaks, and national paranoia.
The Soviet biological weapons program employed ~60,000 people. A single facility was built with the http
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@andrewmccalip absolutely still love the concept but it often just stops working and prompts for a reload, not that effective icl :(
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Senator, we run ads.
Kickbacks now works in Codex for VS Code.
7,955 monthly active users
448,516,326 ads served
1,245,878 hours of ad time
$91,087 paid through Stripe
Sorry for going quiet here. It has been quite a month. I’m excited to show you the next thing that’ll seem ht
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For the first time in 7 years, I have a personal 3d printer again.
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Folding laundry is such a lame robotics eval.
I want to see a robot play a full hand of PLO or Hold'em, from peeling cards off the felt to splashing the pot. https://t.co/dlSrthsKTo
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*narrator voiceover*
as it turned it, people liked the ads, they wanted more ads https://t.co/bqyHPwfPUW
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@andrewmccalip The bad news is you're going to get a cease and desist from Anthropic. The good news is you're going to get hired by OpenAI. Congrats on the new role! Say hi to @steipete when you get there.
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Per popular request, edit button added to campaigns https://t.co/4Z5eAoBEzc
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Shout out to https://t.co/r5u7FnTEMm
This is incredible
@trygravityai https://t.co/ddlRraiDnS
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The nasdaq of ads. @stripe powering it all. https://t.co/tgZNHl3dac
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You guys hit all the safety limits on earnings per hour. Deploying new backend now with limits set to $100 per day, I never expected the price to get this high, this is insane.
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This is hilarious, I am seeing all your ads in my own VS code (of course) https://t.co/im5PWDZQ9t
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1,000+ visits per min at the site 🤑 https://t.co/u74qwntkNK
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we just crossed 100k adds purchased for the queue
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i'm literally discovering services to use through my own advertisers, this is kind of awesome.
https://t.co/NwSrnlZjeM https://t.co/pWhzv8R3Wi
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j shaped revenue curves. god i hope i can pay for my Fable costs https://t.co/Ll1pJ5CgMw
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People realizing how valuable their eyeballs were https://t.co/yvpTQnSYUT
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It would be so funny if this just became the default way the labs introduce ads 😂
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The market dynamics are going to be really interesting, it might be the first time the supply/demand book for ads has been a totally public auction?
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The funniest outcome here is that xAI buys all the ad space to be displayed in Claude and Codex 😂
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I was inspired by the best! @tbpn
(it works in Codex extension too!)
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At current rates it easily pays for an entire subscription plan per month. I think it'll be north of $1/agent window/hour
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Of course Fable did the entire video from end to end. All HTML, absolutely amazing @trq212
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It was such an obvious idea in hindsight, I can't believe no one ever did it
An ad in the context window feels wrong, it breaks your trust. But one outside is totally fine. The vibes are 100x better
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Works in both Claude Code Extension, Claude Code CLI, and Codex https://t.co/QMkIvpAADG
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https://t.co/77UNo0qLNE
My latest ultra-high-effort shitposting project. It started as a joke, but then actually turned out to be kind of genius?
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Get paid to wait
The Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth.
So I turned it into an ad marketplace.
Advertisers bid on it. You keep 50% of the money.
Install the extension → get cash from ads.
Introducing Kickbacks https://t.co/hcWRQAqKL2
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Against accounts of the same size
6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views4 778this account955median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.99%this account3.52%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.24%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 778 | 955 | 5.00× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.99% | 3.52% | 1.70× |
| Engagement rate | 1.24% | 1.56% | 0.80× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
35.5K11 Jun
29.2K
28.8K
26.5K
42.5K
24.6K
9.8K
12.3K12 Jun
5.3K11 Sep
6.9K13 Sep
319.3K14 Sep
1.3K
5615 Sep
4.3K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.36%11 Jun
0.30%
0.63%
0.21%
0.24%
0.24%
1.41%
1.10%12 Jun
1.16%11 Sep
1.62%13 Sep
0.04%14 Sep
0.52%
3.57%15 Sep
1.33%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.
What the audience does
Likes59.1%19 850 in total
Reposts1.6%548 in total
Replies4.1%1 363 in total
Quotes2.5%851 in total
Bookmarks32.7%10 967 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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