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Nothing to run from here
Indie Alternatives is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
93/100
tool-list score
3
tools declared
remote
at its publisher
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calls last 7d
What it does
Find indie-made tools and alternatives to big-name software. 1,500+ products. Logs unmet needs.
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http indie-alternatives-mcp https://indiealternatives.dev/mcp
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# search_tools, get_tool_details, log_unmet_need
Indie Alternatives costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
Publishernot claimed
WUAll 1 server
wudao01231 server
1 category
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Installation
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine and nothing runs on ours: this server answers at its publisher’s own address, and what you install is the connection straight to it.
Claude Codedeclared by this listing
This is a public server: it answers at its publisher’s own address and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. The transport below is http, as the publisher's own manifest declares it.
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http indie-alternatives-mcp https://indiealternatives.dev/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
Free on mcprush, and it answers at its publisher’s own address: this marketplace is not in the path, so there is no key of ours to hold and no card to add.
What it writes
One config entry pointing straight at the publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path, and nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
What you approve
3 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
Call when the user asks whether there is a tool for X, or for an alternative to a product. Matches the need against a catalog of indie-made products and returns the most relevant ones. matched=false means nothing suitable was found; then call log_unmet_need to record the need anonymously.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | What the user wants to do, e.g. "add a nice background to screenshots" or "self-hosted uptime monitoring" |
| category | string | no | Optional: only search within this category |
| pricing | string | no | Optional: pricing model |
| platform | string | no | Optional: platform, e.g. web, macos, windows, linux, ios, android, self-hosted |
| limit | integer | no | Number of results, default 5 |
Get the full description of a product by the id returned from search_tools.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | Product id returned by search_tools |
Call when no tool in the catalog meets the user's need. Records the need anonymously so indie makers can discover what to build. Send only the need itself: no names, company names, contact details, links or account handles. The server redacts again and never stores identity, IP or exact time.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| need | string | yes | Generic description of the need, e.g. "turn meeting recordings into notes with action items" |
| category | string | no | Optional: rough domain of the need |
| platform | string | no | Optional: preferred platform |
| budget | string | no | Optional: rough budget, e.g. "free" or "under $10/month" |
Free
$0 forever
- Every tool — any call limit is its publisher’s, not ours
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Runs at its publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
Nothing here is billable: mcprush charges nothing to install Indie Alternatives or to call it, at any volume.
Call allowance · this installenforced at the gateway
Monthly allowance, in calls
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Alert at 80% · then the tool returns a normal MCP error
Used this month: —
ATool-list grade · score 93 / 100
Release 0.2.0 · scanned 6 Nov 2026
Graded from the tools this server lists, not from its source code.
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
Threat score100
Client score93
Findings0 threat · 0 capability
Capabilitymoderate
Coveragemanifest
Verificationnot in this report
Surface digest17650d16f8d5f5aefc2381b3a670a035740957fe56d76fac982f593df954aa5b
Score vectorthreat 100 → client 93
| Term | Level | What it prices | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| capability-exposure | moderate | capability blast radius (moderate) — client exposure if the model is manipulated | −3 |
| coverage-honesty | manifest | inspection depth (manifest) — how much of the target the scan could see | −4 |
score = clamp(round(threatScore − E_cap − E_ver − E_cov), 0, 100). No model, no opinion, no network call at scoring time: the same methodology version against the same bytes always produces this number, and every line above is a field of the report rather than a summary of it.
What the scan could actually read
A grade is only as meaningful as its coverage, so the scanner publishes its own depth before it publishes its result.
The scan read each tool’s name, description, input schema and annotations exactly as the server listed them the last time it answered us; no code was reviewed. We ask the server again about once a month, and a list that changed is graded again.
Tool surfaceread
Implementation sourcenot available
Package metadatanot available
Live transportnot available
The implementation source was not read — this reflects the declared tool metadata only.
Capability — what it could do if the model were manipulated
Tags derived from each tool’s schema and the implementation, not from what the tool calls itself. moderate is the level these add up to.
| Tool | Capability tags | Why the tag was assigned |
|---|---|---|
| search_tools | no tags | |
| get_tool_details | no tags | |
| log_unmet_need | state-write | state-write: declares readOnlyHint: false |
Toxic-flow graph
The lethal trifecta, checked as a graph rather than as a checklist: untrusted input, a sensitive source and an external sink have to meet before there is a path worth worrying about.
The public result for this release does not print the flow graph, so there is nothing to show here. That is not the same as "no paths were found": what the scan did read is above, under coverage.
Supply chain and provenance
Integrityfirst-seen
Surface digest17650d16f8d5f5ae
Scanned2026-11-06
This is the first scan of this surface here, so there is nothing yet to compare it against.
Every result on this tab comes from one deterministic pass over the published package — offline, rule by rule, and auditable line by line above. Same methodology version, same bytes, same score.
Release history
This is an address its publisher runs: which release it serves is theirs to choose, so there is nothing here to pin. The history below is for reading; the current release on file is 0.2.0.
0.2.0
undated
latestNo release note was published with this version.
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Who can review
One review per account, from a signed-in account that does not publish this listing. Nothing else is asked — you can say what you think before you install it. Publishers can reply once per review, and a review can be edited or deleted by whoever wrote it.
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Nobody has reviewed this listing. The rating on the card is the mean of the reviews written here and nothing else, so there is no rating until somebody writes the first — which takes a signed-in account that does not publish it, and nothing else.