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Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by estetlinus »

rgbrgb wrote: post #16

This is cool. I was skeptical of MCP's until I made one recently. They're essentially the exact same as 1) giving your agent a CLI tool or REST API and 2) pointing it there in an AGENT.md/CLAUDE.md. Agents are great at using built-for-human CLI tools and IMO they don't need anything purpose-built for agents. The key difference, which ends up being a usability win for non-technical users, is that the MCP bundles 1 and…

I don’t like that non-technical users has to keep context bloat in mind. That should be ”solved” on the developer end. How would they now it’s bloated if they treat MCPs like regular software? I 100% agree on designing things for humans, and you’ll get the AI-agents for free. I am surprised no one seems to have figured that out yet.

Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by pzullo »

coreylane wrote: post #60

The marketplace/distribution angle is interesting to me, is ChatGPT really surfacing & reccomending random MCP apps to users based on their conversations, or this still aspirational/early days? How is discoverability in these marketplaces, are users actually browsing/searching for MCP apps and using them?

Thanks for the comment I wrote this piece that goes a bit into this https://manufact.com/blog/what-is-an-mcp-app

TLDR Claude does it today, Chat will probably start soon.

Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by orliesaurus »

freestylematt wrote: post #57

Hey Luigi & Pietro, it's Matt from MCPJam (previously). So cool seeing you guys rock the space. Congrats on the launch! Any apps you can share that are on the OpenAI apps store / Claude store that are built / hosted on Manufact?

This is a great question. I would also love to know what apps I check out on the store!

Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by dang »

Catloafdev wrote: post #14
dang wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tell me you don't understand what you're saying without telling me you don't understand what you're saying. Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Your comment would be fine without that last swipe, and even better if you had gone on to say what the two purposes are. Then we could learn something from it. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombina…

Apologies, I appreciate you posting this!

Thanks for the kind reply! I'll collapse this subthread since the GP comment is fine now.

Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by anthonyko »

This is great. I hadn't heard of MCP Apps — pulling an interface into the LLM could be really useful. I'll trying it.

Been finding some tasks are better inside Claude or ChatGPT chat window, like brainstorming names. I ended up building an MCP for domain lookups (https://namebrewery.com). It lets me go back and forth, branch on different preferences, and steer the LLM toward a name I like, and still available as a dot com.

The examples in your repo have given me some other ideas to try out.

Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by pzullo »

orliesaurus wrote: post #63
freestylematt wrote: post #57

Hey Luigi & Pietro, it's Matt from MCPJam (previously). So cool seeing you guys rock the space. Congrats on the launch! Any apps you can share that are on the OpenAI apps store / Claude store that are built / hosted on Manufact?

This is a great question. I would also love to know what apps I check out on the store!

Thanks for asking we have several! here is our own, it is both on the ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/apps/manufact/asdk_app_69cbfd610c3881919... and Claude Connector store https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/manufact

Re: Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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Post by orliesaurus »

pzullo wrote: post #66
orliesaurus wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great question. I would also love to know what apps I check out on the store!

Thanks for asking we have several! here is our own, it is both on the ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/apps/manufact/asdk_app_69cbfd610c3881919... and Claude Connector store https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/manufact

Are there any apps that weren't built by you, but you know that use your SDK that are live?
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