Dan Rowden
@dr
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Writing docs by day. Building https://t.co/Srcsnykk8t by night. DX Engineer at https://t.co/hZjmutDzwa
Brit in Finland
Joined September 2006
It's time to reveal what I've been working on for the past two weeks. It's called Pocket. A new platform for creating MCP servers. Why MCP? Well, MCP brings APIs (something I love working on) into LLMs so you can do cool things with AI. "The future of your API" ⚡️
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I actually love this UI. Keep the article native and layer on the social actions
We're testing a new link experience, starting on iOS -- to make it easier for your followers to engage with your post while browsing links. For creators, a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and
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Opening up for early users soon! You can join the waitlist to build your own MCP servers (for any API) at
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Breakthrough! Got the first ever production Pocket MCP server running beautifully in ChatGPT
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Built this recently at @loops! Now you can trigger an action in thousands of other platforms when something happens in your Loops account 👌
Loops can now act as a trigger in Zapier. You can now easily sync user and sending data between apps with Loops as the source of truth.
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Another year has passed. Still wondering the same about copying (yet I can't stop building "new" things)
I’ve been making things online for 15 years now. New things I thought others would find useful or fun. Nothing has ever taken off. 15 years is a long time. I’m 38. Wondering if it’s easier to just build a copy of an existing thing rather than make new things every time
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Building an MCP server host is probably the most complex thing I've built. Some days I wonder if I should have started on a different problem
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Setting up a new MacBook from scratch, which means lots of my usual shortcuts and things are missing. I've had these these hot corners set up since 2007.
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Auth for MCPs is a fun one. It's been by far the biggest challenge when building @PocketMCP so far. You can use AI to build, but unless you read the docs and understand the systems/specs yourself you will never really build the thing
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Dreamt about playing tennis for the first time last night. I was playing the most beautiful drop shots 🤌
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This is the mindset we should all have as builders, especially with AI helping more and more people create products. The "seriously" part is important
The market is so big that I think if you just take any idea and SERIOUSLY build + market it, you'll have a chance to get $5k/month on almost any idea.
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Played my first game tonight after hurting my ankle badly in a tackle in mid June. Only one game left of the season now 😅 Wrote this year off already so I’m super happy to have played again. (We won 8-0 and have secured at least 4th place in the league 💪)
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* add 25% outside the US
iPhone 17 (base) is $799 MacBook Air M4 is $799 Mac Mini M4 is $499 All best value in their own categories right now. Upgrades are not necessary cheap, but the value you get from their hardware is unmatched. Now their software... has been total shit recently.
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I'm building this so people can get their app's features and data into LLMs, making them a lot more useful for their users. It only takes minutes to create a server and get it online. Excited to see where this goes.
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It's not quite ready yet but you can sign up for news and early access now. →
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I chose a new name for my next startup. ChatGPT likes it: "{name} is a bold, brandable name that adds energy and metaphor, while still having a subtle technical undertone. It might skew more toward a “developer experience / product company” name than a deep-infra one — which
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