MCP Flow Detection
Details
- External ID
- 45995884
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
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- Website domain
- —
- Launched
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5447598253275109
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Complete MCP traffic analysis tool with desktop app for Mac, Windows. GitHub: https://github.com/mcp-shark/mcp-shark Visit the website for desktop apps: Web: https://www.mcpshark.sh/
Enrichment
- Theme
- Model Context Protocol developer tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mcp flow detection
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop GUI (Electron/Tauri) that intercepts or proxies MCP (Model Context Protocol) JSON-RPC traffic and inspects payloads is standard protocol tooling easily built with AI assistance.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 16 days after the earliest competitor.
- MCP Traffic Analysis Tool · hn · 2025-11-17 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- MCPShark Viewer (VS Code/Cursor extension)- view MCP traffic in-editor · hn · 2025-12-17 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MCPShark · hn · 2025-12-10 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MCP Local Traffic Analysis · hn · 2025-11-18 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MCP Traffic Analyze with NPM · hn · 2025-12-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Tool for Testing MCP Servers · hn · 2026-01-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MCP Playground · hn · 2026-03-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- PingStalker · hn · 2025-11-04 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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