Shipping an MCP Server: Desktop App vs Hosted Web App
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We ship two Model Context Protocol servers. One runs inside a desktop application, on the machine where the data already lives. The other runs as a hosted service behind an account, in front of a multi-tenant database. They speak the same protocol and share almost none of the same decisions. Most w…
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- 2026-09-26 02:29 · DEV Community — AI
Shipping an MCP Server: Desktop App vs Hosted Web App