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Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
#212We 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…
This. We also thought MCP was useless, but now the workflows by ChatGPT and Claude are so good; it's as good as installing an app from the App Store. We launched MCP for our SaaS and immediately found users using it. API and MCP all are just buzzwords for customers. What they care about is whether they can get tasks done in our SaaS using Claude or ChatGPT. If that happens, it's a success.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
People say that with every single model release, and every single time they're wrong. I bet you anything that it's no different this time than the last dozen times.
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?
Can I hear more?
I suspect you’re being downvoted because 500m a day (for that many days) is a bit much,
but there’s definitely plausibility, here.
If we all can’t hear more here, can I hear more by being your Executive Assistant?
Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
This (points up)! I've read many comments about how good CLIs are, and they are right. But for developers. For non-tech people, installing the CLI is a hurdle: it involves having the right dependencies installed, controlling how you handle secrets (like API keys), and handling updates (ie. npx with a private registry). But for internal tools, once you create an MCP with OAuth, the installation (in Claude) is straight…
>implementing MCP auth in an MCP server still isn't very streamlined. That's why services like https://zapier.com/mcp provide still a ton of value, because it helps non technical folks have the MCP server ready to run.
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Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Can I hear more? I suspect you’re being downvoted because 500m a day (for that many days) is a bit much, but there’s definitely plausibility, here. If we all can’t hear more here, can I hear more by being your Executive Assistant?
I'm addicted. This is the most fun I've had coding in decades. I feel like I've got superpowers and the limit is just how quickly I can prompt out my ideas.
Those 500m are for coding. Started with $20 and now I'm on the $200/mo codex plan. Resets are crazy... free tokens, why not take advantage of all that VC money? Using omp helps a lot too, the fact that it uses an LSP under the covers is a game changer.
I'm building products non-stop. I have my own business where I built that dashboard and code within our own closed source. I'm side questing on another potential business idea. I published a bunch of open source. Go look at my HN browser extension (https://oj-hn.com) and tell me it is slop, I use it every day, works great, zero bugs and trivial to maintain. I wouldn't have built any of this, without AI.
Using AI to code is a brand new 10k hour skill. I started off not believing and a combination of models just getting better (very quickly!), the tooling getting better (ie: zed acp / omp), and turned myself into a believer. My eyes are wide open.
CloudFlare and their advancements makes it really easy to just deploy things and build products on top of. I'm glad Ryan is making celld, it'll bring this tech to the masses. Durable Objects are really neat, not everything has to be giant and scalable in every way. Just get the job done, refactoring is easy now.
Lastly, I had a major accident in May. 11 days in the hospital. Almost died, but I fought back and I'll recover. I'm very thankful for this life and I want to make the most of it. Building things people want, is how I will contribute. AI is being used heavily in the hospitals now too.
The downvoters and anti-ai angry posters trying to pick apart my words can go f'ck themselves.
Re: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
#216I’m running basicmemory.com as a production cloud hosted memory. It has mcp/we ui/api/cli interfaces.
The difference between mcp/cli/api has been discussed at length but in general mcp gives agents oauth (for clients like Claude web/chatgpt) and a “more agentic” interface that can helpfully steer the agent instead of having it thrash tokens on erroneous api calls and request formats.
There are good and bad parts to both. Remote mcp is pretty good these days. The generative ui (mcp app) stuff is interesting and useful, if still immature.
Use what works for you!