modelcontextprotocol / modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps

💡 Idea: Growth strategy for MCP extension ecosystem

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Description

Love the MCP extensions work! Quick thought on ecosystem growth:

For an MCP extensions registry like this, developer discovery is the #1 challenge. We ran growth for AFFiNE from 0 to 33k stars and found these channels work best:

  1. GitHub README SEO — Repos with titles matching search terms (e.g., "mcp server examples", "mcp integration template") get 200-500 organic views/month
  2. MCP community posts — Share on dev.to, Hashnode with MCP tags
  3. Newsletter features — Get listed in MCP-related newsletters

Happy to elaborate on any of these. We documented the full open source growth playbook here: https://github.com/Gingiris/gingiris-opensource

Would love to hear what growth channels you are exploring!

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No file, test, or implementation entry point is identified. Start by reviewing the issue and the linked open-source growth playbook, then check the repository’s existing README and MCP ecosystem materials. Done would require a concrete, maintainer-approved growth task with defined channels and success criteria.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github
Domain
content, developer-experience
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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