Scratching His Own Itch: Dev Turns Unreliable Social APIs Into ReachSocial.dev
FewScarcity6957 · reddit · 2026-10-31
A developer building an MCP tool for processing social posts and profiles found platform APIs too unreliable, spending more time fixing integrations than building his service. He built his own backend for fetching social data, which grew into a standalone product, ReachSocial.dev. A classic scratch-your-own-itch side project story; he asks whether other MCP tool builders face the same integration drag.
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