The best MCP servers for developers at startups

There are tens of thousands of MCP servers in the wild as of writing this article – Glama lists over 22,000, PulseMCP tracks 14,000+, and mcp.so and other registries add thousands more. Plugins and connectors have let you use different tools inside an editor for years. The leap with MCP is composability: an agent can pull a Linear issue, find the related PR in GitHub, check the deploy in Vercel, and verify the fix in PostHog in a single prompt.A handful of well-chosen MCP servers, composed thoughtfully, will get you further than a stack full of them.