MCPfinder
An MCP server that finds and installs other MCP servers
Details
- External ID
- 47841215
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MCPfinder
- Website domain
- mcpfinder.dev
- Launched
- April 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5501285347043702
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mcp server package manager
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 182 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #79 of 183 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
- MCPlexor · hn · 2026-02-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Declarative open-source framework for MCPs with search and execute · hn · 2026-02-24 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Risk Analysis Database of Every MCP Server · hn · 2026-02-05 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I built a database for AI agents · hn · 2026-04-07 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MCPJam · hn · 2026-09-17 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- InsForge · hn · 2025-11-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- MCP Playground · hn · 2026-03-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MCP-Builder.ai · ph · 2026-08-26 · 176 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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- No other launches for this product.
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