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Awesome Indie MCP Server

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Awesome Indie is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Search indie product launches, rankings and makers, and submit your own, on Awesome Indie.

Uptime history 64 days of history · worst day 92%
64 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
205 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 2 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Nov a tool description was rewritten get_launch_availability

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Awesome Indie every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

article
get_article
Read one community article (markdown body) by its author username and article slug.
categories
list_categories
Every product category in the directory, most-populated first. Product counts are a periodic snapshot, not live.
community
get_community_posts
The most recent posts from the Awesome Indie community feed.
launch
get_launch_availability
When a product submitted today would launch: the free-queue window, and the paid "Skip the Line" window that lets a launch be booked for a specific day.
maker
get_maker
A maker profile by username: bio, links, streak, followers and their launched products.
product
get_product
Fetch one product listing by its slug: tagline, description, maker, categories, upvotes and launch date.
products
search_products
Search the Awesome Indie directory of launched indie/micro-startup products by keywords. Returns matches ranked by relevance and upvote score.
todays
get_todays_launches
The products launching on Awesome Indie today (UTC), in ranking order.
top
get_top_products
The ranked products for a period. Without a slug, the current period is a rolling window (last 1/7/30/365 days), exactly like the site. With a slug, an archived calendar period: daily "2026-08-06", weekly "2026-08-03" (a Monday), monthly "2026-08", yearly "2026".

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 188 ms 5 min ago

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Awesome Indie — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Awesome Indie do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, get_community_posts, get_launch_availability, get_maker, get_product, get_todays_launches and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Awesome Indie working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 205 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Awesome Indie?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Awesome Indie need an API key?
No. Awesome Indie completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Awesome Indie?
It answers our handshake in 205 ms on average, which is faster than 68% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.