Get Paid to Code in Your IDE — Earn Money While Coding | Virdl$ virdl: Show Earnings ▌<br>Get paid<br>to code.<br>A small, quiet ad in your VS Code or IntelliJ sidebar earns you real money every minute — just for coding like you already do. Free plugin, 2-minute setup, paid out monthly.<br>Start Earning Now →How it works<br>✓ 0 bytes of your code collected<br>Already signed up? Install for VS Code or IntelliJ.

Virdl · your earnings<br>today+ $1.24<br>this week+ $7.80<br>this month+ $23.40<br>balance$47.60

impressions today: 804 · ads paused: 0

$10–$40<br>per month, typical

~2 min<br>to set up, seriously

0 bytes<br>of your code sent anywhere

Real payouts already going out every month.

the deal<br>Install the extension. Sign in with GitHub or Google. Run Virdl: Set API Key. Done.<br>After that, a small ad shows up in your editor's sidebar, the kind of thing you barely notice. A tool you might actually want, or a job listing, or a SaaS product. It rotates quietly. You see it. You earn a part of the revenue. That adds up.<br>End of the month, we pay you. ACH transfer to your bank. Minimum $10 balance. No weird cryptos. No gift cards. Actual money.<br>Full setup docs →<br>01Install<br>Search "Virdl" in the VS Code Extensions tab or the IntelliJ plugin marketplace, or use the buttons above.

02Sign in + paste your key<br>GitHub or Google OAuth on this site, grab your API key from the dashboard, drop it into your editor.

03Keep shipping<br>Nothing else changes. Ads rotate in the background. Check your balance whenever.

do the math<br>See what you'd make.<br>Drag the slider to however long you actually sit in your editor on a typical day. This is an estimate — your dashboard shows the real number once you're installed.<br>Hours coding per day6hrs<br>116<br>Earning surfaces<br>Sidebar 100% · Status bar 30%

Rotation<br>every 40s

Your CPM<br>$1.50 / 1k views

Views / day<br>1,080

estimated earnings<br>per day$1.05<br>per week$5.27<br>per month$23.17

Assumes ~5 coding days a week (22/month) and a $3.00 average CPM split 50/50 with you. The sidebar ad pays the full rate; the status bar pays 30%. Actual earnings also scale with your account standing.

what makes this different<br>We were pretty paranoid about not being annoying.<br>No ads where you're working<br>The sidebar. The status bar. That's it. We will never put an ad in the file you're editing, in a notification, in an autocomplete popup, or anywhere that actually costs you time. If we do — uninstall immediately. We mean that.

Your code stays local<br>We log impressions and clicks. That's the whole data model. No file names, no contents, no keystrokes.

Stays out of the way<br>Under 2 MB. Runs in its own process. We benchmarked it. Your editor won't slow down.

Real ads, vetted<br>Dev tools, SaaS, job boards. We approve each advertiser. No crypto schemes, no gambling, nothing sketchy.

Easy off switch<br>“Virdl: Pause Ads” from the command palette, or just uninstall. No dark patterns to keep you hooked.

questions people ask<br>Answered honestly.<br>How much will I actually make?<br>Depends on how much you code. Active developers typically see $10–$40/month. Code all day, earn more. Weekends only, earn less. Your dashboard shows your exact rate — no guessing.

When do you pay out?<br>Monthly, via ACH to your bank. Minimum $10 balance to trigger a payout. No fees on our end. Payments are done globally via Paypal, Crypto, Stripe. (Soon might add Wire)

Seriously — my code is safe?<br>Yes. We only collect ad interaction data — when you saw an ad, whether you clicked it. Source code, file paths, variable names, editor state: none of it leaves your machine. We built it this way on purpose. Accessing your code would require a level of trust we've absolutely not earned yet.

Will it slow my IDE down?<br>Shouldn't. Lightweight plugin, separate process, under 2 MB. If you notice any sluggishness, report it — that's a bug we want to fix.

Works with Copilot / Claude / Cursor?<br>Yes. No conflicts. It lives in the sidebar and status bar — completely separate from any AI features or completions.

You said beta. Should I be nervous?<br>Payouts are going out every month and the plugin is stable. “Beta” mostly means the feature set is still evolving and we might break something weird. If we do, come yell at us on Discord.

the community<br>We hang out on Discord.<br>Payout questions, feature requests, bug reports, or just seeing what other devs are earning — the fastest way to reach us is the Virdl Discord. The founders actually read it.

Join the Discord →

Your editor is open anyway.<br>Might as well get paid.<br>Free account, 2-minute setup, real monthly payouts.

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