Every Developer Will Need an MCP Server. Here's How to Build One.

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📊 Sign up to Neon (free tier - what we used in the video): https://get.neon.com/PfSUp2P 🎓 Agentic Coding Masterclass: 👉 https://masterclass.agenticcoding.cc 🚀 Agentic Labs community (live Q&A + bonus classrooms): 👉 https://www.skool.com/agentic-labs Every major SaaS is racing to ship MCP servers - and in this tutorial, you'll learn how to build one from scratch and deploy it to production with Claude Code in under 15 minutes. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard way to connect AI agents like Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, and OpenAI agents to your applications. Every developer building modern software needs to know how this works - and in this hands-on tutorial, we build a real, production-ready MCP server you can use immediately. ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 0:00 Why Every Developer Will Need an MCP Server 0:26 What Makes an App "Agent-Ready"? 1:38 Real-World MCP Server Examples (GitHub, Notion, Google) 1:56 What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? 2:22 Setting Up the Project with Claude Code 5:34 Setting Up Neon Postgres (Serverless Database) 7:30 Verifying the Build & Generating API Keys 9:14 Testing the MCP Server with MCP Inspector 10:27 Connecting the MCP Server to Claude Code 11:35 Save & Distill Demo with Claude 12:09 Deploying the MCP Server to Production 14:22 Connecting Claude to the Production MCP Server 14:44 Wrapping Up Business & sponsorship enquiries: leon.vanzyl@gmail.com #claudecode #agenticcoding #vibecoding