alt Hacker NewsMCP might be one of the few technology pieces where more articles have been written about it than the actual use-cases being built.
It is like the ERC20 era all over again.
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__loam • 04/23/2025
It's very funny to see people talking about an extremely thin protocol like this.
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atonse • 04/23/2025
I don't feel that way. Maybe the first examples have all been related to what software people do, but I think an MCP for a travel site would be a game changer.
There are so many things I want to tell a travel site that just doesn't fit into filters, so then end up spending more time searching all kinds of permutations.
These could be done with an MCP-augmented agent.
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3np • 04/23/2025
ERC20 stood the test of time and is ubiquitous today.
Who knows what MCP looks like in a decade?
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mootptr • 04/23/2025
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This particular way of seeing MCP that the article describes came up a lot during the early voice assistant ways - and I guess amazon did kind of attempt an app store approach to giving alexa more capabilities. In theory I like it! But in practice most people won't be using any one integration enough to buy it - like why go through the hoops to buy a "plane ticket purchasing app" when you do it maybe 4 times a year. I just don't see it playing out the way the author describes