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Portlane
Deploy, test and submit MCP servers from GitHub, with usage analytics
- Score
- 50
- confidence 59
- Evidence
- 12
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2025
- New market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Engineers deploy from repos, run tests, submit to stores, and review analytics—all sustained developer work at a desk. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Deployments
Deployed 2 min agoLive
About this appAI proposal
Portlane is a hosting and release platform for teams that build MCP servers. Connect a GitHub repo and every push deploys to a hosted endpoint with auth configured, so your product can appear inside AI chat apps.
Before you ship, Portlane runs your server against several MCP clients and flags where they behave differently, especially around authentication. A pre-submission checklist covers what stores ask for, so submitting is less guesswork.
Once live, you see which tools get called, where calls fail and which client sent them. Design notes point out when a server is only a 1:1 API proxy and suggest task-shaped tools and interactive UI.
- Tagline
- Ship your MCP server to every chat app, without the guesswork.
- Voice
- ClearPracticalCalm
- Why this name
- A port is where things get connected and shipped out; a lane is a clear route. Portlane suggests a clear route from code to the stores.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Deploy from GitHub
Push to a branch and get a hosted MCP endpoint, with preview URLs per pull request and one-click rollback.
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Multi-client test runs
Run scripted conversations against different MCP clients and compare tool calls, auth flows and errors side by side.
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Pre-submission checks
A checklist for store submission: metadata, auth, tool descriptions and spec version. Fix items before review.
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MCP usage analytics
See calls per tool, failures, latency and client mix, so you know what people actually use.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Ship your MCP server to every chat app, without the guesswork.
PricingAI proposal
Verified: Vercel lists a free plan, one paid plan at $20 a month and prices on request for larger customers. Tiers follow that shape; limits are a starting point to test. Usage-based add-ons are a claim to test.
Free
Free
- 1 hosted server
- Test credits each month
- Basic usage analytics
Team
$20 a month
- Several servers
- Multi-client test runs
- Store submission checks
- Full analytics history
- Spec change alerts
Scale
Contact us
- Priority submission support
- Custom limits
- Shared team access
Would you pay Team · $20 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Visible inside customers’ products. Hosted endpoints and store listings can carry a small 'Hosted on Portlane' mark on free plans, and public status pages show the name to developers at partner companies.
- Do they become customers?
- Viewers are mostly end users of chat apps, not builders. Test whether engineers at partner companies click through and start their own server.
- First customers
- Engineering teams of 5 to 50 at B2B SaaS companies publishing their first MCP server for AI chat apps.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and dev forums: Post a walkthrough of a failed client test and a store checklist, then invite readers to try it.
- MCP community Discords: Offer free test runs to builders and collect which checks they value.
- Direct outreach: Contact product engineers at SaaS firms that announced an MCP, offering a free audit.
- First milestone
- Ten teams run tests on a real server and five pay for the Team plan within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedHacker News post received 111 points and 70 comments
- Public claimMajor AI clients report 15%+ of their usage comes from MCPs already
- Public claimAn Amplitude engineer reported 2x increase in retention after adding UI to their MCP
- Public claimMCP stores are now open and accepting submissions for one-click installation
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Server runtimeContainer or isolate hosting for customer codeCustomers' MCP servers need long-lived, isolated runtimes that Vercel functions may not suit.
- This app · Build pipelineGitHub app and sandboxed build runnersDeploy on push needs repo access and safe builds of untrusted code.
RisksAI inference
- PlatformAI clients and stores may change MCP behaviour, auth or submission rules, or ship their own hosting and testing, making checks outdated.
- TechnicalRunning customers' code safely, with isolation, secrets and cost control, is hard and a security risk if done badly.
- CommercialThe open source SDK team positions a cloud platform for its own SDKs; a framework-agnostic product must show value beyond them.
- TechnicalTesting against real clients may depend on unofficial automation that breaks or violates terms.
- CommercialDemand rests on public claims from one forum thread; teams may not pay for MCP-specific tooling yet.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.