$950 MRR in 4 Months Building an MCP Server for Claude Code Intel

A developer on r/ClaudeAI shared transparent stats from 4 months of building an MCP server for codebase intelligence for Claude. The product reached $950 MRR (mostly recurring) with 54 users, entirely bootstrapped while holding a full-time job.

Key Numbers

• Launched late December 2024
• First paying user around week 4
• "Profitable" by week 4 (excluding cost of their own time)
• $950 MRR, ~30 min/week on marketing
• Marketing channels: Reddit (1-2 posts/week) + Medium (1 article/week)
• 0 paid ads, 0 cold DMs, no growth hacking, no Twitter automation

What Worked

• One Reddit post per week (sometimes two)
• One Medium article per week (less if being honest)
• Fast replies when something hits
• The product solves a real problem the founder had themselves

What Didn't

• Free-to-paid conversion is rough
• Some users churn after a month — reasons not yet identifiable
• Some "users" are tire-kickers from launch posts
• Scaling from 54 to 100 to 500 will be much harder than 0 to 54

The founder works 8-10 hours after their day job, often until 3-4am. They note that if you're at $0 MRR right now, this is what 4 months of evenings looks like — and it's enough.

The post is not selling a course — just sharing real numbers because nobody was being honest when the founder was at $0.