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Product updates and the story behind building BOOTH.
BOOTHmcp Confirmed Live in Production
Resolved a dependency version mismatch in the build pipeline and verified BOOTHmcp end to end. It's live and answering real availability searches at www.boothapp.co/api/mcp.
MCP Tools No Longer Flagged "Destructive"
Claude and ChatGPT were labeling our read-only availability checks as "Public Write" / "Destructive" because we never told them otherwise. All three tools now correctly declare themselves read-only, so the warning a barber sees actually matches what the tool does.
MCP Shows Total Booths, Not Just Open Ones
Ask an AI assistant about a shop and you now get both numbers together — "11-Booth Shop — 2 Available Booths" — instead of a bare open count with no sense of shop size.
MCP Points Barbers Toward an Account
Every MCP result now carries a signup link alongside the listing link, and the tool descriptions spell out that a free BOOTH account is what actually lets a barber request a booth — not just how to browse.
MCP Guards Against Manipulated Shop Listings
Shop owners control their own description and plan text. Added a filter that keeps a listing out of AI search results if its content looks like it's trying to instruct the assistant rather than describe the shop.
Owner Landing: Post an Opening, Not Manage Barbers
The owner hero button used to send you to a raw barber list. It now says "Post an opening" and prompts sign in/up first — hiring starts with your account, not a browse page.
Listings Page No Longer Shows the Wrong Nav Link
A logged-out visitor on a shop listing page was stuck seeing "Find Barbers" — an owner action that made no sense there. It now shows Articles, and the language switcher (which had nothing to do on a single listing) is gone.
Landing Page Visual Pass
Card backgrounds moved from a flat gray wash to a black-tinted glass look with a proper highlight, the footer is now true black instead of blending into the page above it, and the hero's shop photo is more visible in both light and dark mode.
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