Every time you use ChatGPT or Claude, you wait. Usually 3 to 8 seconds. That's it. That's the idea. uwait is a Chrome extension that shows a curated ad during that loading screen. You get a small cut. The publishers whose content trained the AI get a cut too. The advertiser gets your attention at a moment when you're actually paying attention. The split: 50% to users, 30% to publishers, 20% to us. We're picky about advertisers. Just brands that make sense in that context.
I built uwait because I got tired of staring at a loading screen every time I asked ChatGPT something.
That's it. That's the whole origin story.
Three seconds. Five seconds. Sometimes more. Multiplied by every query I do in a day, every day. At some point I thought, that's a lot of attention going nowhere. And attention is worth something.
So I built a Chrome extension that shows a small ad during that wait. You earn from it. Publishers whose content trained the AI you're using earn from it too. We take 20%.
No account to create. No surveys. No referral schemes. You install it, use AI like you normally would, and money accumulates in the background.
I've been running it myself for a few weeks now. It's not life-changing money. But it's real money, for time you were already spending doing nothing.
The extension is live at uwait.co. There are already a few advertisers running so you'll actually see ads from day one.
Curious what you think. Happy to answer anything below.
About uwait on Product Hunt
“Get paid while AI thinks”
uwait launched on Product Hunt on June 22nd, 2026 and earned 145 upvotes and 27 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Every time you use ChatGPT or Claude, you wait. Usually 3 to 8 seconds. That's it. That's the idea. uwait is a Chrome extension that shows a curated ad during that loading screen. You get a small cut. The publishers whose content trained the AI get a cut too. The advertiser gets your attention at a moment when you're actually paying attention. The split: 50% to users, 30% to publishers, 20% to us. We're picky about advertisers. Just brands that make sense in that context.
On the analytics side, uwait competes within Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and Search — topics that collectively have 519.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how uwait performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted uwait?
uwait was hunted by Tristan Berguer. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of uwait including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Tristan Berguer
Hey Product Hunt, Tristan here.
I built uwait because I got tired of staring at a loading screen every time I asked ChatGPT something.
That's it. That's the whole origin story.
Three seconds. Five seconds. Sometimes more. Multiplied by every query I do in a day, every day. At some point I thought, that's a lot of attention going nowhere. And attention is worth something.
So I built a Chrome extension that shows a small ad during that wait. You earn from it. Publishers whose content trained the AI you're using earn from it too. We take 20%.
No account to create. No surveys. No referral schemes. You install it, use AI like you normally would, and money accumulates in the background.
I've been running it myself for a few weeks now. It's not life-changing money. But it's real money, for time you were already spending doing nothing.
The extension is live at uwait.co. There are already a few advertisers running so you'll actually see ads from day one.
Curious what you think. Happy to answer anything below.