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by young_mete·4mo ago·view on hn ↗
I don’t think so. Your product / tool has to be extremely specialized and deeply necessary to pull of a walled garden MCP. The more likely alternatives are that someone else comes along with a better (open) integration, the model internalizes your tool’s capabilities, or the AI labs themselves build 1st party competitors.
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Figma has demonstrated that kind of aggressive lock-in many times. For example, they couldn't get enough companies to subscribe to FigJam and Slides, so they simply increased Figma's subscription price by that amount, and then said those apps are included for free.

BTW: that's usually illegal, but with the current administration, it's a Tuesday.

You need leverage to do that (I.e we don’t have alternatives), which they’re losing quickly.