MCPfinder
An MCP server that finds and installs other MCP servers
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I’ve been building and using agents heavily lately. The Model Context Protocol ecosystem is growing insanely fast, but discovering and configuring new tools is still highly manual. Every time I needed to connect an agent to a new service, I had to browse registries, figure out the transport type, identify required env vars, and manually update "mcp.json" files.So I built MCPfinder. It aggregates servers from the official MCP registry, Glama, and Smithery (around 25,000 combined entries) into a deduplicated, ranked catalog.But the real twist is the DX: MCPfinder is itself an MCP server :DYou only install it once as your "base capability" via standard stdio: npx -y @mcpfinder/serverFrom then on, when you tell your AI, "I need to query my PostgreSQL database," the magic happens autonomously.It's completely free, AGPL-3.0 licensed, and built purely to optimize AI-tool surface discovery.I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or edge cases where JSON generation for specific platforms is acting up.
HN · launched Apr 20, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 45%) · 0 views
Niche: model context protocol tools · 465 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) server wrapping registry search APIs (Smithery, Glama, official MCP registry) to query and format configuration payloads.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: vital-stack.com (supplement safety MCP server), standard registries
Concerns raised: discovery friction for domain-specific MCPs, health/supplement MCPs are invisible in current registries, unclear if MCPfinder supports non-dev-tooling domains well
Feature requests: better discovery/visibility for domain-specific MCPs beyond dev tooling, improved categorization for health and supplement space MCPs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 386 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #169 of 387 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I built a database for AI agents · hn · 2026-04-07 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- multi-database-mcp-server · github · 2026-10-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MCPJam · hn · 2026-09-17 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MCPify · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- InsForge · hn · 2025-11-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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