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Right, that is why I said it makes sense for existing products. I mentioned desktop apps, but it would apply to any existing project. Like JIRA, or HubSpot, Wordpress, or Figma, etc.

But there is hype around MCP as if independent devs could do something with it. And some will just for fun, some will for open source cred. But it is my experience that longevity is usually the result of stable revenue.

I guess what I predict happening here is a few people will build some useful MCPs, realize there is no way to monetize despite generating a lot of interest and the most useful/popular MCPs will be integrated directly into the offerings of the foundational AI companies. And in a few years we won't even remember the acronym unless you happen to work for some big corp that wants to integrate your existing service into LLMs.




The revenue plan for hosted services is that every user with an MCP client will count as a billable user.




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