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Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

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We do at our company (in the ecommerce sector). I set up a way for internal users to connect an agent to our data. We used to spend a lot of time building reports for non-technical users. It's been a fantastic way to free up our time, and allows them to "query" the system using natural language.

"How many of these shirts sold in 2024" "Build me a chart that displays revenue over time for product XYZ"

Things like that. They love it, and we get to spend time on more pressing things.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

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MCP is not just a rest api its a layer on top

A layer than honestly doesn't do much, as I understand it. What does MCP as a protocol actually solve? Is it more than a bandwagon?

My company uses MCP in production to connect different AI products together that were developed by different teams. It makes the connections very easy, where a REST interface often has quirks and features that you have to understand.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

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Incredibly useful for our SaaS. We are a niche CRM and it's very useful for our non-technical users to be able to connect our platform's data to Claude/Copilot which they then combine with other MCPs.

Advantages over our normal API: - Much easier to provide LLM-specific explanations and descriptions to all of the tools and parameters - None of our clients know what a CLI is - We re-use our MCP for our own platform's agent which gives it a neatly defined list - It handles the full OAuth flow in the application

I'll admit though it is VERY similar to a REST API, and I could see them merging at some point.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A layer than honestly doesn't do much, as I understand it. What does MCP as a protocol actually solve? Is it more than a bandwagon?

My company uses MCP in production to connect different AI products together that were developed by different teams. It makes the connections very easy, where a REST interface often has quirks and features that you have to understand.

That's fair. REST isn't much of a standard. MCP can be just as badly designed and documented as REST, but at least there's a standard for authenticating and listing the options. Reading through other top-level comments, this seems to be the theme. MCP usage is mostly driven by ease of connection.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

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Incredibly useful for our SaaS. We are a niche CRM and it's very useful for our non-technical users to be able to connect our platform's data to Claude/Copilot which they then combine with other MCPs. Advantages over our normal API: - Much easier to provide LLM-specific explanations and descriptions to all of the tools and parameters - None of our clients know what a CLI is - We re-use our MCP for our own platform's…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

#157

We use MCP in production since March 26 for user-facing endurance sports analytics and planning that integrates directly with the MCP host, in this case the chat interfaces of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Perplexity.ai, Mistral, you name it. All of those let users add either custom MCP servers, which users can do with a simple explanation. To connect Claude for example: https://www.tredict.com/faq/connect-claude-web-with-t…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

#159
MCP's are great for adoption of your service outside of developer circles. Non Technical users can click a link, trigger an OAuth flow and authenticate. You can't do that with API. API still is better for developers using a AI via a CLI but MCP is easier adoption for web or desktop based clients.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

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i'm burning 500m tokens a day "writing code" for 83 days straight. one of those projects i'm building integrates netbox, stripe, quickbooks, mercury and deel all together via api. i wrote zero lines of code and read zero api docs. it does exactly what i want and gives me a 360 degree view of every aspect of my multi million dollar arr biz. how about you?

360°? That's weak. The real experts have a 720° FoV with multiverse time travel.

lol!
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