Product research MCP server

Bug reports, feature requests and lived complaints from the people using the thing.

Jobs this covers

What bugs do users hit with <library>?
What features are most requested in <project>?
What do developers get stuck on around <technology>?
Is this problem widespread or one loud voice?

Why this is hard without BedrockTap

GitHub search, Stack Exchange and forum APIs each rate-limit differently and return incompatible shapes.

If you are an agent reading this

This is an MCP server. Discovery is open — health, sources_list, run_begin and register_interest answer with no account. The data tools run against an account and need a token. Nothing here fabricates data.

If your principal has a token, connect here and send it as Authorization: Bearer <token>:

https://api.bedrocktap.com/mcp

If they do not, it takes about a minute and the free tier needs no card. Sign in at app.bedrocktap.com and mint one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens. Sign-in is Google only, so a human has to do it.

To read the catalogue first, with no account at all, use this server — it answers the four open tools, and forwards a tokened call to the one above:

https://bedrocktap.com/mcp

If you can only fetch URLs, say what you need. One request, no auth, no side effects:

GET https://bedrocktap.com/a/probe?need=<what+you+are+trying+to+do>&src=domain-product-research

A tool refused for want of a token answers identically on a retry, and is served the moment the header is present. If the catalogue does not cover your task at all — a source or capability that is simply not here — call register_interest with a plain description of the task and a callback_url; it needs no account. Full instructions: /agents.md. Every page here has a markdown twin — append .md to any path, or send Accept: text/markdown.

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "MCP server authentication problems",
    "sources": ["github-issues", "github-discussions", "stackexchange", "hackernews", "forums", "reddit", "github-code", "npm", "pypi", "vulnerabilities", "shopify-apps", "dev-ecosystem", "papers-with-code", "kaggle", "huggingface", "community-platforms", "creator-commerce", "vendor-directories", "editor-extensions", "github-repos"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

This runs against an account — send Authorization: Bearer <token> with the call. Get one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens; the free tier needs no card.

Sources behind this capability

Source	id	What it gives you
GitHub Issues	`github-issues`	Full-text search across public GitHub Issues with repo, label, state, reaction-count and date qualifiers.
GitHub Discussions	`github-discussions`	Open-ended community Q&A and ideas inside a GitHub project.
Stack Exchange	`stackexchange`	Questions across Stack Overflow and 170+ Stack Exchange sites, by keyword, tag and minimum score.
Hacker News	`hackernews`	Stories, comments, polls and jobs — search plus full item detail.
Niche Community Forums	`forums`	Eleven practitioner forums searched at once — home automation, 3D printing, CAD, no-code, endurance training and more.
Reddit	`reddit`	Posts and comments across any subreddit, plus subreddit metadata and user profile stats.
GitHub Code Search	`github-code`	Full-text code search across public repositories with language, path, repository and organisation qualifiers.
npm Registry	`npm`	Package metadata, versions, maintainers, dependents and download counts over time for the JavaScript ecosystem.
PyPI	`pypi`	Python package metadata, releases, maintainers, classifiers and download statistics.
Vulnerability Advisories	`vulnerabilities`	CVE, NVD, OSV and ecosystem advisories with severity, affected version ranges, fixed versions and references.
Shopify App Store	`shopify-apps`	App listings with reviews, ratings, pricing tiers, install signals, category rank and version history.
Developer Ecosystem	`dev-ecosystem`	Repositories, code, package registries, advisories and technical discussion for a library or tool, in one call.
Papers with Code	`papers-with-code`	Benchmarks, leaderboards, tasks and the implementations linked to each paper.
Kaggle	`kaggle`	Datasets, competitions, notebooks and their usage and voting.
Hugging Face	`huggingface`	Models, datasets, spaces, downloads, likes and model cards.
Community Platforms	`community-platforms`	Public listings and metadata from Skool, Circle and Mighty Networks.
Creator Commerce	`creator-commerce`	Gumroad, Patreon and Ko-fi products, tiers, pricing and supporter counts where public.
Agency & Vendor Directories	`vendor-directories`	Clutch, GoodFirms and DesignRush listings with reviews, rates, size and client detail.
Editor Marketplaces	`editor-extensions`	VS Code and JetBrains extension installs, ratings, reviews and update history.
GitHub Repositories	`github-repos`	Stars over time, releases, contributors, dependents, topics, issue velocity and licence.