$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.
📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI
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