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Turn APIs into MCP servers without code

Details

External ID
46151579
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Turn APIs into MCP servers without code
Website domain
zalor.ai
Launched
Dec. 4, 2025
Cohort
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Upvotes
15
Upvotes percentile
0.6040076335877863
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hi HN! We built Zalor. It turns an OpenAPI spec into an MCP server, so you can make your APIs callable by Claude or ChatGPT without writing any code. Here's a list of specs you can try: https://github.com/ZalorAI/test-data/tree/main/openapi, but feel free to use your own.For background, MCP is a protocol that standardizes how you connect tools to AI assistants. We're both engineers at large software companies, and when we worked on MCP integrations we saw how long setup took and how often the spec was changing. So we built a platform to handle the MCP infrastructure, letting you keep doing normal API work and expose it to AI when you're ready.Right now we're creating a 1:1 mapping from APIs to MCP tools, but we're working on improving tool discovery so the AI doesn't get overwhelmed by 100 endpoints at the start of every conversation.Still early. Would love feedback!

Enrichment

Theme
Model Context Protocol developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
api to mcp server converter
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Translating OpenAPI specification schemas into Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool definitions is straightforward JSON schema mapping and API forwarding.

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