WebMCP clearly explained (and how to make $$)

Think about this. AI agents are about to become a new kind of visitor on the internet, and I think billions of dollars of wealth will change hands in the process. Because millions of AI agents are gonna be browsing and buying on the internet, but the internet isn't designed for them to do that. And that creates a really interesting question, which is, what does an agent-ready website or app look like, and how do you actually build one? Well, there's this l- new little thing by Google called WebMCP, and I'm honestly surprised more people aren't talking about it. The simple idea is that websites can expose cleaner actions for AI agents. So instead of an AI agent trying to figure out a page like a human being, the site can basically tell an agent, "Here's how to search, here's how to book, here's how to buy." So today, I have my friend Vinnie come on and just clearly explain what WebMCP is, how it differs from MCPs, why it matters, where the opportunities lie, and I give you two startup ideas that I think could cashflow that you can start today. Enjoy the episode. I hope it gets the creative juices flowing. And if you haven't liked, commented, subscribed, what are you doing? This stuff should be paid. We make it free. I just wanna see you win. Let's go, and I'll see you at the end of the episode. [singing] The Startup Ideas Podcast. It's sippin' time, baby. Thank the MRR gods, Vinnie is back on the pod to explain something very, very, very powerful, WebMCP. Vince, you, you actually brought it to my attention. Vinnie, by the end of this episode, what are people gonna learn?

All right. They're gonna learn how to use WebMCP, which is kind of exactly like it sounds. It's MCP, but in the UI, in the browser, and this is like a brand-new experimental feature from, um, Google and Microsoft. So I really think this is, uh, a first-mover advantage here. So if you can learn this stuff, you're really bringing-- Um, you're getting the skills that you need to bring stuff to market that is emerging, that's going to probably be, uh, the next big trend. So I think this is a really cool thing.

So Vince is gonna actually explain to you in a clear way what WebMCP is, how to use it, and at the end of the episode, I'm gonna share with you two startup ideas, cash flowing startup ideas, that I think could use WebMCP that you can build today. That'll be at the end. Vince, you start 'em off.

All right, cool. So let me start from, like, a problem I had, um, myself. Um, when I heard about WebMCP, the first thing that came to mind is this shop that I've got here. Um, it's an ex- espresso machines and gear shop. So I was buying an ex- an espresso machine, and it has, like, a lot of specifications. It's got a, a lot of gear and accessories, and figuring out which one's right for me, um, and also which accessories fit was kind of a pain. So it was a lot of back and forth, googling, also putting stuff into, um, an agent or ChatGPT or whatever, and like, "Does this fit? Will this work?" So I thought, "Oh, cool. This is a great, um, use case for something like this," where we could build a shop with WebMCP tools in it that your agent can talk to. So you can bring any agent that