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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?

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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 buildi…

Second-to-last paragraph has me non-jokingly interested in talking about working on something together. Interested in chatting about a bigger swing, following the same user-first design mentality? I have a great niche staked out, have operated in it previously for somebody else, personally elicited most if not all of the pain points of the underserved users in mind. I saw ridecontrol a day or so ago - very sleek UX,…

thank you. i built https://ridecontrol.xyz because of that accident. dr said to get on a trainer and strengthen my leg/butt muscles, i didn't want to write in a cartoon (zwift) and i couldn't find any other free software that i liked, so i used AI to build my own.

read the source, it isn't slop. i spent a lot of time carefully refining the UX to be something i enjoyed, clean and simple. the focus is on the data and there is even a whole physics engine under the covers to make the riding resistance as similar to the road as possible. i used the developer skills i already knew, to build something in record time. i ride an hour a day now and the exercise has been magical in my recovery. i would have never done something this complete and solid without ai and it would have taken me months instead of days.

absolutely reach out. let's build something. username at gmail.

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

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MCP is great for attaching chat interfaces with it. It's so good it's slightly detrimental, people start trying to build dashboards with it only to find out you can't make deterministic dashboards with a non-deterministic workflow. The number of people who want API access, now that they've been properly exposed to the data, has doubled month over month since we put in the MCP back in April.

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?

It tells an agent what tools are available and the scenarios when they should be called. This does a ton of work when working with agents
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