vending-bench
An open source vending machine benchmark: a long-horizon agentic business simulation served over MCP, shipped as a Harbor task.
Details
- External ID
- 1370517164
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- vending-bench
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agents for business operations
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- agentic business simulation benchmark served over mcp
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a benchmark environment simulating a vending machine business exposed via Model Context Protocol (MCP), which consists of state machine logic and standard API schemas easily vibe-coded.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1171 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #834 of 1172 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Maingen: Simulations of real industrial operations, so agents can run the physical world · yc · 2026-08-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Studio: The simulation engine for market behavior · yc · 2026-08-21 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Veris · hn · 2026-05-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- OJCP · hn · 2026-08-11 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- BLINDSPOT · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Async - Specialized AI agents, that automate costly work for small businesses. · yc · 2026-08-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Silverlake: The Java-native agentic AI operating system for enterprise · yc · 2026-05-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- OpenMRP · hn · 2026-08-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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