I got tired of having to open/look at Visual Code to see how much I was earning on @Kickbacks.ai so I built a CLI and Mac Menu bar tool to easily see how much I was making, the ads I saw, and which days, weeks, and months I earned the most.
Feel free to leave feedback and hope folks enjoy :)
the menu bar integration is such a clean touch, especially for creators who already live in the terminal all day
love that you brought live earnings and ad history into the terminal and menu bar instead of forcing a dashboard login. the mac menu bar presence especially is a small touch that makes checking numbers feel frictionless.
Gabe, this is such a builder move :))
Getting tired of opening VS Code just to check earnings, then casually shipping a CLI and menu bar app for it... honestly very on-brand. I really like how focused it is too: status, live earnings, ad history, and simple trends without adding unnecessary complexity. The Mac menu bar version is probably what I'd end up checking way too often :)
The compact two-line earnings view that lives in the terminal is a genuinely nice touch — one less dashboard tab to babysit. On the plumbing: does the CLI keep your Kickbacks token in the macOS Keychain or a plaintext dotfile, and does the menu bar app poll the API on an interval or hold a live connection for the real-time earnings?
Love that the menu bar app stays in sync with the CLI without a clunky refresh button, and the fact that I can pipe live earnings into other tools without copy-pasting from a dashboard. The little touches like a compact earnings view that fits in two lines of terminal real estate is a nice nod to people who actually live in their shell.
About Kickbacks CLI on Product Hunt
“The terminal and Mac menu bar companion for Kickbacks.ai”
Kickbacks CLI launched on Product Hunt on July 11th, 2026 and earned 153 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. See your Kickbacks.ai status, live earnings, and ad history in the terminal and Mac menu bar.
Kickbacks CLI was featured in Advertising (29.7k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.2k followers), GitHub (41.3k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 137.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Gabe Perez
I got tired of having to open/look at Visual Code to see how much I was earning on @Kickbacks.ai so I built a CLI and Mac Menu bar tool to easily see how much I was making, the ads I saw, and which days, weeks, and months I earned the most.
Feel free to leave feedback and hope folks enjoy :)