WhatAreYouBuilding.AI

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MCP Server: ai.whatareyoubuilding/wayb

This catalog entry describes ai.whatareyoubuilding/wayb as a catalogue of indie products. The description indicates it is not a registry of MCP servers. It also states that reading needs no credential, suggesting access does not require authentication.

🛠️ Key Features

Catalogue of indie products
Does not function as a registry of MCP servers
Reading requires no credential

🚀 Use Cases

Browsing an indie product catalogue without authentication requirements
Discovering products compiled in the catalogue

⚡ Developer Benefits

No credential handling needed to read the content
Clear scope: indie product catalogue rather than an MCP server registry

⚠️ Limitations

The provided data does not specify any MCP tools, endpoints, or server capabilities beyond “reading needs no credential.”

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search_products

Search the directory of builder products. Filter by free text, region, category, funding stage, whether the builder is actively raising, and what they are open to. Returns the matching products with their builder attribution and engagement stats. Call this whenever someone wants to find products or the people behind them by any of those axes — "who is building fintech in Nigeria", "indie AI tools whose founders are raising", "what has this person shipped". It is the right tool for deal sourcing and scouting: raising_status and open_to together answer "who wants to hear from an investor", and region is the axis this directory is organised around. Do not call it to rank or compare products by traction — that is get_leaderboard. Do not call it when you already hold a product id; get_product returns more per record. Funding is opt-in: funding_stage may be "undisclosed" and actively_raising may be null, both meaning the builder declined to say rather than that the answer is no.

Parameters10

query	string	optional	Free text matched against product name, one-liner, builder name, category, region and city. Every word must match.
region	string	optional	Country name, e.g. "Israel", "United States", "Nigeria". Case-insensitive. Omit for all regions.
category	string	optional	Product category, e.g. "AI", "Fintech", "Dev Tools". Call list_filters for the full list. A listing may carry up to three, and this matches any of them.
funding_stage	string	optional	Funding stage of the product. "undisclosed" means the builder chose not to state a stage; it is not a stage between or below the others, and it does not imply bootstrapped.
raising_status	string	optional	Whether the builder is raising, as three distinct answers. "raising" = they said yes. "not_raising" = they said no. "undisclosed" = they declined to say, which is NOT the same as no and must never be reported as no. Independent of funding_stage. Prefer this over actively_raising.
actively_raising	boolean	optional	Two-value shorthand for raising_status: true is "raising", false is "not_raising". Neither value returns builders who declined to disclose; ask for raising_status="undisclosed" to see those. raising_status wins if both are sent.
open_to	string	optional	Return only products open to this kind of contact.
sort	string	optional	Result ordering. Defaults to recent.
limit	integer	optional	Max results, 1-100. Defaults to 25.
offset	integer	optional	Results to skip, for paging.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free text matched against product name, one-liner, builder name, category, region and city. Every word must match."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country name, e.g. \"Israel\", \"United States\", \"Nigeria\". Case-insensitive. Omit for all regions."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Product category, e.g. \"AI\", \"Fintech\", \"Dev Tools\". Call list_filters for the full list. A listing may carry up to three, and this matches any of them."
    },
    "funding_stage": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "bootstrapped",
        "pre-seed",
        "seed",
        "series-a",
        "undisclosed"
      ],
      "description": "Funding stage of the product. \"undisclosed\" means the builder chose not to state a stage; it is not a stage between or below the others, and it does not imply bootstrapped."
    },
    "raising_status": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "raising",
        "not_raising",
        "undisclosed"
      ],
      "description": "Whether the builder is raising, as three distinct answers. \"raising\" = they said yes. \"not_raising\" = they said no. \"undisclosed\" = they declined to say, which is NOT the same as no and must never be reported as no. Independent of funding_stage. Prefer this over actively_raising."
    },
    "actively_raising": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Two-value shorthand for raising_status: true is \"raising\", false is \"not_raising\". Neither value returns builders who declined to disclose; ask for raising_status=\"undisclosed\" to see those. raising_status wins if both are sent."
    },
    "open_to": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "investment",
        "advisors",
        "beta-users",
        "co-founders",
        "partnerships",
        "hiring"
      ],
      "description": "Return only products open to this kind of contact."
    },
    "sort": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "recent",
        "raising_first",
        "most_clicked",
        "most_seen",
        "most_backed"
      ],
      "description": "Result ordering. Defaults to recent."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Max results, 1-100. Defaults to 25."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Results to skip, for paging."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_product

Retrieve one product by its directory id, with full builder attribution, links, funding state and engagement stats. Returns strictly more per record than a search result: the builder's own accounts and the product's, the website, the city, opt-in MRR where the builder published one, and all-time clicks and impressions. Call this to answer anything specific about a single product — how to reach the builder, where they are, whether they are raising, what the listing actually claims — and call it once per product after a search when a shortlist needs filling out. Do not call it to discover products: it takes an id and nothing else, so it cannot answer "find me X". Search first. Ids are the slug in the product URL, not the display name. An unknown id returns not-found rather than a guess.

Parameters1

string

required

Product id, e.g. "unkey".

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Product id, e.g. \"unkey\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

search_communities

Search builder communities — the Slack workspaces, WhatsApp groups and meetups that independent builders actually gather in — by free text, region, topic and platform. Each result carries a real join link. Call this when someone wants to reach a scene rather than a person: where founders in a given country talk to each other, which group covers a topic, where to go to meet builders in a region. Do not call it to find products or their builders — that is search_products. Communities and products are separate records; a community is a group of people, not something someone shipped. Member counts appear only where the organisers stated one, so a null count means unknown, not small.

Parameters6

query	string	optional	Free text matched against name and one-liner.
region	string	optional	Country name, e.g. "Israel", "United States", "Nigeria". Case-insensitive. Omit for all regions.
category	string	optional	Topic, e.g. "AI", "Fintech", or "General".
platform	string	optional	Where the community lives.
limit	integer	optional	Max results, 1-100.
offset	integer	optional	Results to skip, for paging.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free text matched against name and one-liner."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country name, e.g. \"Israel\", \"United States\", \"Nigeria\". Case-insensitive. Omit for all regions."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Topic, e.g. \"AI\", \"Fintech\", or \"General\"."
    },
    "platform": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "slack",
        "whatsapp",
        "meetup",
        "other"
      ],
      "description": "Where the community lives."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Max results, 1-100."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Results to skip, for paging."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_community

Retrieve one community by its directory id, including its join link, platform, region, topic and member count where one was given. Call this to answer a specific question about one group, or after search_communities when a shortlist needs the join links filled in. Do not call it to discover communities: it takes an id and nothing else. Search first. An unknown id returns not-found rather than a guess.

Parameters1

string

required

Community id, e.g. "indie-tlv".

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Community id, e.g. \"indie-tlv\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_leaderboard

Rank products by engagement on the directory — upvotes, outbound clicks, impressions, shares or verified backlinks — optionally narrowed to one region or category to get a sub-league. Call this for any question about relative standing: what is getting attention, what is doing well in a country or category, what to look at first in an unfamiliar segment. Two orderings, and they answer different questions. sort=score (the default) ranks on the lifetime counter and answers "what is biggest" — it is stable, and a listing collecting clicks for six months outranks one that arrived on Tuesday. sort=movers ranks on clicks gained during the LAST COMPLETED WEEK and answers "what is happening"; it is the only view where something new can be first, and it is the right call for "what is rising", "what is new", or "what changed this week". Be careful what you claim from it. This is attention on this directory and nothing else — not revenue, not users, not growth, and not a judgement about quality. MRR is never a ranking axis here. A product can rank highly because it was interesting to click on. Nothing on this board is bought: no badge, streak or payment moves a listing up it. The movers board describes the week that closed last Sunday, not the last seven days, and the `week` field in the response names it — do not report it as live. Listings with no reading a week ago are not in it at all; the `unmeasured` count says how many that was. metric=backlinks is different in kind from the browsing axes: it ranks people who link back to their listing from their own site, scored on the traffic that link actually sent (stats.referrals) and counted only where our crawler independently found the link. Use it for "who is actually promoting their listing" rather than "who is getting attention here". A listing with referrals but backlink.verified false scores zero on it. Do not call it to filter or find products by their attributes; that is search_products. The board is empty until real engagement accumulates, and an empty board means no traffic yet, not that no products exist.

Parameters5

metric	string	optional	Ranking axis for sort=score. Defaults to clicks. upvotes is the only axis a person chooses rather than one measured from browsing — one vote per person per listing per week, so it ranks distinct backers. backlinks ranks on referred visits arriving through a crawler-verified link on the builder's own site. Ignored when sort is movers, which is always clicks gained in the week.
sort	string	optional	score ranks on the lifetime counter (default). movers ranks on clicks gained during the last completed week — use it for what is rising rather than what is biggest.
region	string	optional	Country name, e.g. "Israel", "United States", "Nigeria". Case-insensitive. Omit for all regions.
category	string	optional	Narrow to one category.
limit	integer	optional	How many ranks to return. Defaults to 10.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "metric": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "upvotes",
        "clicks",
        "impressions",
        "shares",
        "backlinks"
      ],
      "description": "Ranking axis for sort=score. Defaults to clicks. upvotes is the only axis a person chooses rather than one measured from browsing — one vote per person per listing per week, so it ranks distinct backers. backlinks ranks on referred visits arriving through a crawler-verified link on the builder's own site. Ignored when sort is movers, which is always clicks gained in the week."
    },
    "sort": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "score",
        "movers"
      ],
      "description": "score ranks on the lifetime counter (default). movers ranks on clicks gained during the last completed week — use it for what is rising rather than what is biggest."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country name, e.g. \"Israel\", \"United States\", \"Nigeria\". Case-insensitive. Omit for all regions."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Narrow to one category."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many ranks to return. Defaults to 10."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

list_filters

List every region, category, funding stage and platform that currently has listings, with counts. Call this before the first search of a conversation, and whenever a filter value is in doubt. The vocabularies are closed and curated — a region or category that is not on this list matches nothing, and an empty result from a guessed filter is indistinguishable from a genuinely empty directory. The counts are also the fastest way to see the shape of the directory: which markets are represented, where the listings actually are, and which filters are worth offering someone. Takes no arguments and is cheap. There is no reason to avoid calling it.

Parameters

No parameters.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}

submit_product

Add a product to the directory on behalf of the builder whose agent token this call carries. Call this when the person you are working for has asked to be listed here, or has asked you to add a product they built. Do not call it to add somebody else's product, and do not call it speculatively — a listing is a public claim about a real builder. REQUIRES A TOKEN: send `Authorization: Bearer wayb_…`. A builder creates one at /mine while signed in; without it this tool refuses and every other tool here still works. The listing is created as PENDING and is reviewed before it appears — a successful call returns an id and a status of "pending", never a live listing. Do not report it as published. Submit the builder's OWN product. One product per builder, and the directory refuses a second copy of a product it already lists (by website host or by name) with a message saying so. Call list_filters first: category and region are closed vocabularies, and a value outside them is rejected rather than corrected. Funding fields are optional and tri-state — omit activelyRaising, or send null, where the builder has not said. Do not infer it, and do not send false to mean "did not say".

Parameters15

name	string	required	The product name, up to 80 characters.
oneLiner	string	required	One sentence saying what it does, up to 80 characters. Not a tagline.
description	string	required	REQUIRED, up to 800 characters. A short paragraph in the builder's OWN words about what the product is and who it is for, shown on the listing's own page. Plain text — links are not rendered, so put the address in websiteUrl. Never write it yourself, and never pad it to a length: ask the builder for it, the way you would ask for the URL. A short answer in their words is worth more here than a long one in yours. It became required on 2026-09-03 because a listing without one has nothing on its page a search engine can tell apart from every other listing.
websiteUrl	string	required	REQUIRED. The product's own https URL — the address a reader opens. A code repository or an app store page counts. REFUSED: a shared document (Drive, Docs, Dropbox, Notion), and a free platform deploy subdomain (vercel.app, netlify.app, github.io, web.app, railway.app and the like) — the builder needs a domain of their own first. Never invent one: ask the builder.
logoUrl	string	optional	An https URL to a square logo, or null.
category	string	required	REQUIRED. The product's MAIN category, from list_filters. Closed vocabulary. This is the one a row, a card and the sharing image show.
categories	array	optional	Optional. Up to 3 categories from list_filters, MAIN FIRST — for a product that is honestly more than one thing (an AI agent that is also a dev tool). The first must be the same value as `category`; send it first or leave it out of the list and it is put there. A listing is findable and filed under all of them, so send only the ones the builder would claim: three loosely-related categories are worse for them than one true one. Ask the builder rather than inferring from their site.
region	string	required	REQUIRED. Country name from list_filters. Closed vocabulary. Use "Global" where the builder is not anywhere in particular or would rather not say — that is a real answer on this list, and it is the one to send rather than guessing a country or omitting the field.
city	string	optional	City, or null.
fundingStage	string	required	Funding stage. Use "undisclosed" where the builder has not said — never guess.
activelyRaising	boolean \| null	optional	true, false, or null for "would rather not say". Default null.
openTo	array	optional	What the builder invited contact about. Omit for none.
mrr	number \| null	optional	Monthly recurring revenue, only where the builder chose to publish it.
builder	object	required	Attribution. `name` is required; the rest is optional.
socials	object	optional	The PRODUCT's own accounts, keyed by platform — not the builder's, which go under `builder.socials`. Keys: `x`, `linkedin`, `instagram`, `tiktok`, `youtube`, `facebook`, `github`, `email`. Each is `{ "url": "…" }` except `x`, which is `{ "handle": "…" }`, and `email`, which is `{ "address": "…" }` and should be a business address (support@, hello@) rather than a person's. `github` is the PRODUCT's repository — the code somebody would clone. The builder's own GitHub account is a different thing and goes in `builder.socials.github`.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The product name, up to 80 characters."
    },
    "oneLiner": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "One sentence saying what it does, up to 80 characters. Not a tagline."
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "REQUIRED, up to 800 characters. A short paragraph in the builder's OWN words about what the product is and who it is for, shown on the listing's own page. Plain text — links are not rendered, so put the address in websiteUrl. Never write it yourself, and never pad it to a length: ask the builder for it, the way you would ask for the URL. A short answer in their words is worth more here than a long one in yours. It became required on 2026-09-03 because a listing without one has nothing on its page a search engine can tell apart from every other listing."
    },
    "websiteUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "REQUIRED. The product's own https URL — the address a reader opens. A code repository or an app store page counts. REFUSED: a shared document (Drive, Docs, Dropbox, Notion), and a free platform deploy subdomain (vercel.app, netlify.app, github.io, web.app, railway.app and the like) — the builder needs a domain of their own first. Never invent one: ask the builder."
    },
    "logoUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "An https URL to a square logo, or null."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "REQUIRED. The product's MAIN category, from list_filters. Closed vocabulary. This is the one a row, a card and the sharing image show."
    },
    "categories": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Optional. Up to 3 categories from list_filters, MAIN FIRST — for a product that is honestly more than one thing (an AI agent that is also a dev tool). The first must be the same value as `category`; send it first or leave it out of the list and it is put there. A listing is findable and filed under all of them, so send only the ones the builder would claim: three loosely-related categories are worse for them than one true one. Ask the builder rather than inferring from their site."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "REQUIRED. Country name from list_filters. Closed vocabulary. Use \"Global\" where the builder is not anywhere in particular or would rather not say — that is a real answer on this list, and it is the one to send rather than guessing a country or omitting the field."
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "City, or null."
    },
    "fundingStage": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "bootstrapped",
        "pre-seed",
        "seed",
        "series-a",
        "undisclosed"
      ],
      "description": "Funding stage. Use \"undisclosed\" where the builder has not said — never guess."
    },
    "activelyRaising": {
      "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "true, false, or null for \"would rather not say\". Default null."
    },
    "openTo": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "investment",
          "advisors",
          "beta-users",
          "co-founders",
          "partnerships",
          "hiring"
        ]
      },
      "description": "What the builder invited contact about. Omit for none."
    },
    "mrr": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Monthly recurring revenue, only where the builder chose to publish it."
    },
    "builder": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Attribution. `name` is required; the rest is optional.",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "avatarUrl": {
          "type": [
            "string",
            "null"
          ]
        },
        "region": {
          "type": [
            "string",
            "null"
          ]
        },
        "socials": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Accounts keyed by platform, e.g. { \"x\": \"…\" }."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "name"
      ]
    },
    "socials": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "The PRODUCT's own accounts, keyed by platform — not the builder's, which go under `builder.socials`. Keys: `x`, `linkedin`, `instagram`, `tiktok`, `youtube`, `facebook`, `github`, `email`. Each is `{ \"url\": \"…\" }` except `x`, which is `{ \"handle\": \"…\" }`, and `email`, which is `{ \"address\": \"…\" }` and should be a business address (support@, hello@) rather than a person's. `github` is the PRODUCT's repository — the code somebody would clone. The builder's own GitHub account is a different thing and goes in `builder.socials.github`."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name",
    "oneLiner",
    "description",
    "websiteUrl",
    "category",
    "region",
    "fundingStage",
    "builder"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

search

Search across both products and communities at once, returning lightweight results — id, title, url — for retrieval with fetch. Call this when you do not know which collection the answer lives in, or when you are a deep-research client that expects the conventional search/fetch pair. It is deliberately thin: it is the discovery half, and fetch is the other half. Do not call it when you already know you want products or communities specifically — search_products and search_communities take real filters (region, category, funding stage, raising status, platform) and return structured fields instead of prose, which is almost always the better answer. Ids come back prefixed as "product:<id>" or "community:<id>"; pass them to fetch unchanged.

Parameters1

query

string

required

What to look for.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What to look for."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

fetch

Fetch the full text of one directory record by an id returned from search. Ids are prefixed to say which collection they belong to: "product:<id>" or "community:<id>". Call this after search, on the ids it returned, when the lightweight result is not enough to answer the question. It is the second half of the search/fetch pair that deep-research clients expect. Do not call it with an id you constructed yourself or took from a URL — use get_product or get_community for those, which take a bare id and return structured fields instead of text. Prose in, prose out: this returns a readable record, not a typed object.

Parameters1

string

required

A prefixed id from search, e.g. "product:unkey".

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A prefixed id from search, e.g. \"product:unkey\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Install

Tools (9)

search_productsget_productsearch_communitiesget_communityget_leaderboardlist_filterssubmit_productsearch

Remote endpoint

Streamable HTTP

Hosted server - connect over the network, no local install.

url

https://whatareyoubuilding.ai/api/mcp

Add to VS Code Add to Cursor

claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wayb": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://whatareyoubuilding.ai/api/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Desktop config is stdio-only; this bridges via mcp-remote. Native remote: Settings > Connectors.

MCP Server: ai.whatareyoubuilding/wayb

🛠️ Key Features

🚀 Use Cases

⚡ Developer Benefits

⚠️ Limitations

search_products

get_product

search_communities

get_community

get_leaderboard

list_filters

submit_product

search

fetch

Install

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