Skill Economy: How Developers Will Make Money on MCP

2/24/2026

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Feb 23, 2026 23:10

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Рынок Telegram-ботов и простых GPT-оберток перенасыщен. Сделать очередного бота для пересказа новостей может каждый школьник. Но где лежат настоящие деньги в эпоху AI?

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💰 The end of the era of “just bots”

The market for Telegram bots and simple GPT wrappers is oversaturated. Every schoolchild can make another bot to retell the news. But where is the real money in the age of AI?

The answer is simple: in tools.

🛠 From SaaS to MaaS (Model-as-a-Service)

Businesses don't need another chatbot. Businesses need AI to be able to work with their data: 1C, CRM, warehouse balances, bank accounts.

Developers who start writing MCP servers (integration gateways) will become the new "gold diggers".

💎 How can mcpcat.ru help you make money?

We are implementing a single wallet model.

Currently, to use 10 different paid APIs, you need 10 subscriptions. It's inconvenient.

In the future via mcpcat.ru:

The user (or his AI agent) pays for a subscription to the catalog.

The MCP server developer receives payment for each call to his tool (Pay-per-use).

Have you written a cool connector to Notion or Jira? You receive a royalty every time someone's neural network uses it.

This creates a skill economy where what is valued is not a beautiful interface (AI doesn't need one), but rather reliable and fast logic.