I've been building AI apps completely wrong. 🤯 Everything my app needs from users already lives in their ChatGPT or Claude: their research, their drafts, their files, their context. I spent months building onboarding flows and import UIs to collect data users had already created one tab over. 🫣 Every UI step is a drop-off point. Every form is a reason to churn. 📉 The fix: a well-written skill + an MCP server. The user's AI already has the context — you just give it a structured way to hand it over. 🚀 Shopify gets this. Every store now has an MCP endpoint by default. A merchant who researched products, wrote descriptions, and generated images with AI shouldn't re-enter any of it — the agent builds the product page. Don't build another import wizard. Build the skill.
Use MCP/skills instead of import wizards in AI apps
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