{"slug": "show-hn-a-commerce-network-built-on-ucp-for-agents-to-discover-and-pay", "title": "Show HN: A commerce Network built on UCP for agents to discover and Pay", "summary": "A product manager launched Kifly, a commerce network built on the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) that enables AI agents to discover and pay for products from multiple sellers. The platform aims to help small businesses and engineers adapt to AI-driven commerce by allowing users to check out via a demo widget or connect through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).", "body_md": "I kept hearing about how e-commerce was dead and how a lot of brick-and-mortar stores and sellers will go out of business soon because of AI. I am a product manager and studied machine learning while in school. The last thing I want is for engineers to be losing their jobs 'because of AI', and also for small businesses barely getting by to see the same fate. AI is amazing tech hopefully kifly helps people use their AI assistants find things they need.\n\nThis is early and I would love your feedback.\n\n1. You can discover and checkout within the demo widget (scopped to one seller) on the homepage\n\n2. Connect to the MCP to experience the full Network wide capability\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936018](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936018)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-commerce-network-built-on-ucp-for-agents-to-discover-and-pay", "canonical_source": "https://kifly.ai", "published_at": "2026-07-16 15:37:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 15:55:16.166181+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Kifly", "UCP", "MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-commerce-network-built-on-ucp-for-agents-to-discover-and-pay", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-commerce-network-built-on-ucp-for-agents-to-discover-and-pay.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-commerce-network-built-on-ucp-for-agents-to-discover-and-pay.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-commerce-network-built-on-ucp-for-agents-to-discover-and-pay.jsonld"}}