bidmylid
8 zones · peel any day

Your lidis primerealestate

Startups bid on the 8 sticker zones on your laptop. You approve every decal and earn $12 to $80 a zone.

free to join · free to refuse · you are never charged

Example lid

Zone 07$12/moopen, and yours to claim

illustrative brands and rates, not live bids. every zone still needs its owner's yes.

The board

273 zones open · ranked by total committed

These brands want your lid

Ranked by what each has committed across every campaign they have run. The top 10 sit on this page, and the place cannot be bought: the only way up is to put more into the market, which is the same money that raises what your 8 zones pay you.

  1. #1cmux$5001 campaign
  2. #2Monid$5001 campaign
  3. #3XTrace$5001 campaign
  4. #4Focus Lab Blocker$2001 campaign
  5. #5Open. Run a campaign and take it.Get on the board

a place on this board is free and cannot be bought · it is earned with campaign spend · every campaign still needs a lid owner's yes

Two doors

Which side of the lid are you on?

Owners rent out space on a laptop they already carry. Brands buy that space by the company, the city or the region. Same sign-in either way, and you can be both.

For lid owners

Money for a laptop you already own

List your lid, prove where you work with a one-time code, and rent out the zones you are not using. You stay anonymous: brands buy segments, not people.

  • 8 zones, let one at a time, $4 to $80 each a month
  • You approve every decal and can block whole categories
  • Peel a sticker off any day, payout prorated to the day
  • You keep 80% and are never charged, for anything
For brands

Reach engineers at the companies you name

Bid on a segment: everyone with a verified work email at a company, everyone in a city, or a whole region. Your decal rides into their office every morning.

  • Target by company, city or region, never a named person
  • From $5 a zone a month, and the price you see is all in
  • You send the die-cut vinyl: mail it in, or drop it off in SF
  • Monthly billing per live placement, pause any time
The rate card

Every zone has a floor it earns

A lid's tier comes from the employer its owner proved with a one-time code. These are floors, not fixed rates: when a tier runs out of open zones, what a new placement earns climbs.

What a lid owner earns per zone and across all 8 zones, by tier, at the floor price
Frontierwork email proved at a frontier AI labYou earn$80/moAll 8$640/mo
Big techproved at a household-name tech companyYou earn$40/moAll 8$320/mo
Startupproved at any other company inboxYou earn$12/moAll 8$96/mo
Explorerclaimed, no work email proved yetYou earn$4/moAll 8$32/mo

rates shown are what the owner receives · a lid can also take lower-tier work at that tier's rate

What a brand pays, broken down
How it works

From work email to paid

Nothing reaches a laptop without a yes from the person carrying it, and nothing is billed for a sticker nobody photographed.

  1. 01

    Prove where you work

    Sign in, then verify your work email with a one-time code. The domain you prove sets your lid's tier, which sets what its 8 zones are worth.

  2. 02

    Approve what you like

    Brands bid on segments, never on people. Every offer arrives with the brand, the artwork, the category and the rate on screen. Nothing lands without your yes.

  3. 03

    Stick it on

    The brand supplies die-cut vinyl and we mail it to you. It goes on the zone you agreed to, and you photograph the lid with that cycle's code in shot.

  4. 04

    Get paid monthly

    Stripe pays out once the 30-day cycle closes and your photo is approved. Peel it off any day you like: the payout prorates to the day.

in-house sticker printing is on the list, not in the product yet · brands supply their own die-cut vinyl today · we ship to us addresses only for now

The catch, up front

What you are actually agreeing to

Is this permanent?

No. Every placement is removable die-cut vinyl sized to one of your 8 zones. Peel it off any day: the zone reopens and your payout prorates to the day it came off. The centre of the lid is always left alone for your laptop's own logo.

Will you sell my data?

Brands buy segments: a company's verified employees, a city, a region. Nobody bids on you as an individual, and while they are shopping they see nothing about you at all.

What ends up on my laptop?

Only what you approve, with the brand, the artwork, the category and the rate on screen first. You can block whole categories up front, from crypto to gambling to political, so those offers never reach you.

When do I get paid?

Monthly, through Stripe, once a full cycle closes and you have sent a fresh photo with that cycle's code visible. The platform fee comes out of what the brand pays, so owners are never charged for anything.

Early access · US shipping

Stick it.Ship it.Get paid.

8 zones are sitting idle on the back of your laptop. Listing them takes a work email and about two minutes.

owners are never charged · brands fund campaigns up front