I built my first MCP to manage Google Ads
Details
- External ID
- 49548962
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built my first MCP to manage Google Ads
- Website domain
- adchestra.com
- Launched
- Sept. 3, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6842105263157895
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
My co-founder and I tried running Google Ads for our Shopify store, but we could not get a positive ROAS (we spent 150USD on a single conversion).As we also could not afford an agency, we turned to AI (IMO Codex >>> Claude Code).We found that Google’s Ads MCP could only read data, but it could not make changes. So we built our own hosted MCP with read and write access.It can inspect performance, find wasted spend, create or update campaigns, and work with Google Analytics and Tag Manager.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Model Context Protocol developer tools
- Vertical
- Marketing
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mcp agent for google ads
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an Model Context Protocol (MCP) server written in TypeScript/Python that wraps Google Ads, Analytics, and Tag Manager REST APIs with standard OAuth2 authentication.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AdLoop MCP server (open-source alternative)
Concerns raised: Slow traction on Product Hunt, Campaign naming conventions depend on AI agent quality, Requires basic ad knowledge to use effectively, Agent execution boundaries for write operations unclear
Feature requests: Scheduled tasks (e.g., weekly performance reports), Marketing best practices built into MCP, Automatic campaign organization with proper naming conventions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 78 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.