mcp-use reaches 7K GitHub stars building open-source MCP infrastructure, eyes Supabase-style monetization

the stream. Nice to meet you, man. Nice to meet you. What a direct name. Let me guess. model, context, protocol, AI, something like that. What's going on? Introduce yourself. What do you do? Yeah, my name is Peter. I'm the CEO of MCPUs. We help people use MCP.

Of course, we build open source dev tools and infrastructure. I was going to say, what's the open source strategy? Yeah, open source. I mean, is a no-brainer. Strategy is to open source. Every license, everything is free. Okay. Everything's free.

And then there's probably a GitHub repo that's growing and some measured by stars or something like that. 7K stars. I know. Let's hear it for 7K stars. Congrats.

Uh and then uh at some point do you want to be more like Red Hat Linux like who are you looking to in terms of well-run is it GitLab like superbase superbase okay breakdown uh how will their business model look like yours?

Yeah because they they have a bottomup approach they get developers and then those developers introduce inside the company the tool uh and I love it and and is the goal there to sell a a non-self-hosted version long term? Yes like cloud you know. Great. Yeah. Um what else is driving adoption right now?

like who are the key uh businesses or customers that are really going all in on MCP enterprise enterprise 20% of 100 users is there any uh is there is there any like uh specific subset of enterprise that's particularly all in on AI or MCB like we saw this data point yesterday that uh when the census polls people maybe enterprises are less likely to adopt AI maybe they got over their skis but you can imagine that it's different if you're a farmer adopting AI or a large you agricultural conglomerate, a chemical plant or a widgets business versus like your Visa or you're a fintech company and like AI is it's already already a digital business.

So is there are have you noticed any trends in who your customers are?

Yeah, I think what you said makes a lot of sense like tech forward enterprise are are doubling down like PayPal these kind of companies because they have like a very software like they have a very valuable software MCP allows to expose this software to agents so they're the ones you know doubling down.

Uh how's the raise going? Very good. Very good. You raised six already. $6,000. $6,000. $6,000. Uh, how many times did you have to apply to YC to get in? Oh, three. Three of them. Three. Never give up. Never give up. I never give up. What were you doing? What were you doing?

I was I was in Zurich, you know, so far far there. And virtual tryon for e-commerce. Okay. Miserable. Oh, virtual triumph. Did you just say miserable? Yeah. Like it's very hard to sell to fashion. Don't do it founders. Totally hard. It's crazy how many companies have taken that crack yet.

It's just But no, it's getting better. You know, I think you're doing well. But yeah, I mean, you you always wonder if it's going to is that functionality going to live like at Shopify or at at an indep at an independent enterprise. What's the uh what's the AI scene like in Zurich? I there's that poaching team. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. This is great. Zurich is a great place for talent like deep research and uh yeah I think last year you had another Zurich guy in there. So we're also getting it. But you're staying in the bay. Yeah. Yeah. We're staying in the bay. Okay. America play the America Eagle. Thank you.

Uh uh we we we have a lightning round. We like to ask two questions. First uh who uh what who is your favorite entrepreneur or someone in business that you look up to? Yeah. Brian Chesy, I think. Brian Chesy. Oh, no less.

And then our second question, how did you make your first dollar online or in business converting an open source uh user? Really? Yeah. That was when MCPUs. No. So, I thought it was like an hypothetical question. No, no, no.

Literally like a lot of people they uh they sold records on eBay or they you know set up a website for a friend. Everyone has an interesting story of like their first taste of entrepreneurship. Could have just been a job. I don't know. I think it was an app where people could create picture of their kids.

I made it with a girlfriend at the time. No way. Okay, cool. Programming. Yeah. And you got your first dollar. Well, congratulations. Have a great rest of your demo day. Nice to meet you. We will talk to you soon and we will