Building your own MCPs: developers share why they backed off
AaGho_ · reddit · 2026-10-30
A developer who has used Claude connectors asks whether others tried building their own MCP servers and then gave up — and what problems drove them away. Before starting a hobby project of custom MCPs, they want real-world insight on what works, what doesn't, and how those who persisted handled debugging and maintenance.
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