[noodletheworld]

An, the dream, a cross platform App Store you can install apps into any client application that supports MCP, but is open, free and agentic.

It’s basically a “web App Store” and we side step the existing app stores (and their content guidelines, security restrictions and billing requirements) because it’s all done via a mega app (the MCP client).

How could it go wrong?

If only someone had done this before, we wouldnt be stuck in Apples, etc’s walled gardens…

Seriously though; honest question: this is literally circumventing platform requirements to use the platform app stores. How do you imagine this is going to be allowed?

Is ChatGPT really big enough they can pull the “we’re gonna do it, watcha gonna do?” to Apple?

Who’s going to curate this app store so non technical users (the explicitly stated audience) can discover these MCP apps?

It feels like MCP itself; half baked. Overly ambitious. “We’ll figure the details out later”

[ivape]

The apps are LLM agnostic, so all MCP apps will be portable. Economically, this means developers don’t have convince users to pay $20 a month, these users are already paying that. Devs just have to convince users to buy the app on the platform.

I don’t see this being the future state. We’d be talking about a world where any and all apps exist inside of fucking ChatGPT and that just sounds ridiculous.