Ask HN: Are you building agents? What do they need access to?
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by asim
19 hours ago
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I'm curious to know who our building agents and what are they building them for and what kind of external access do you need to different kinds of data or apis?

I previously built an API platform that tried to aggregate a lot of the main needs for app development or web development. The idea you know to build some MVP you need authentication and a database and maybe email, SMS that kind of stuff. And I'm starting to see the same kind of thing with agents. Where past certain prototyping you do start to need access to external information or data. A lot of it. You can just develop straight on the machine but otherwise you know you got to go get API keys and do integration and whatever else. So I'm just curious to know what people are doing or using.

kdqed
14 minutes ago
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I want to build an SEO agent with access to SERP and keyword volume data
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TZubiri
18 hours ago
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I don't want to be mean, but you sound confused.

Are you building agents? or building apps? Or building an API platform that has everything from databases and auth and coffee making capabilities?

Sorry for meandering, but this is a common issue, way more people build builders and sell shovels than there is a demand for, and it's usually a way to escape actually building an application.

Try building something concrete, and asking concrete questions about that.

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asim
17 hours ago
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I'm not confused. I was highlighting my past experiences and was curious to know what APIs/MCP servers or external resource people are using for Agents. That's it.
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