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Earn passive money for adding an extension on VS Code! Virdl shows small, non-intrusive ads in your VS Code sidebar, status bar, and Explorer panel while Copilot, Claude, or your build runs. Never interrupts. Never in your way. You earn real $ for every ad you see.
Want to pay bills for Claude? Spotify? FOR FREEEE?? Install Virdl on VS code and start earning passive money for doing your daily routine work. Virdl shows you small, non-intrusive sponsored content shown during natural waiting moments in your editor. You get paid for it!
Developers are expected to earn 10$-40$ per month just by installing a single extension.
How do you make sure the ad placements don't slow down the editor when something heavy like a Copilot request or a build is already running?
I built Virdl. A VS Code extension that shows small, non-intrusive sponsored ads on the status bar and side bar, and pays you for seeing them. Not clicks, not surveys, not referrals. Just passive income for time you were already coding.
How it works:
Install the extension from the VS Code Marketplace
Sign in with GitHub, grab your API key
That's it. Ads rotate quietly in your sidebar. Your balance grows.
Most developers earn $10–$40/month without changing a single thing about how they code.
What makes this different:
Ads never interrupt your flow — sidebar and status bar only
Your code never leaves your machine (we only see ad interaction data)
Advertisers are vetted tech companies — dev tools, SaaS, job boards
Anti-fraud is baked in server-side, so earnings are always fair
We're in beta right now and I'm personally onboarding every advertiser. If you're a dev tool or SaaS company that wants to reach developers in the most contextual place possible, their IDE, shoot me an email at .
Happy to answer anything in the comments. Would love your honest feedback 🙏
Virdl was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #90 on the daily leaderboard. Earn passive money for adding an extension on VS Code! Virdl shows small, non-intrusive ads in your VS Code sidebar, status bar, and Explorer panel while Copilot, Claude, or your build runs. Never interrupts. Never in your way. You earn real $ for every ad you see.
Virdl was featured in Marketing (465.8k followers), Developer Tools (515.4k followers) and Monetization (1.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 151.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Virdl?
Virdl was hunted by Malay Patel. 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.
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Malay Patel
Want to pay bills for Claude? Spotify? FOR FREEEE??
Install Virdl on VS code and start earning passive money for doing your daily routine work. Virdl shows you small, non-intrusive sponsored content shown during natural waiting moments in your editor. You get paid for it!
Developers are expected to earn 10$-40$ per month just by installing a single extension.