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Get started

  • Introduction
  • Quickstart
  • Authentication & limits

MCP server

  • Install the MCP server
  • Tools overview

MCP tools

  • search_products
  • get_product
  • search_founders
  • get_founder
  • get_launches
  • get_trending_products
  • search_categories

REST API

  • Overview
  • Products
  • Founders
  • Launches & trending
  • Categories & taxonomy

AI discovery

  • llms.txt & llms-full.txt
  • Markdown mirrors & AI profile
  • Structured data
  • Get your product discovered

Reference

  • Data model
  • Rate limits & caching
  • Errors
  • Privacy & data policy
Docs/Get started/Quickstart

Quickstart

Connect an agent to the MCP server or make your first REST call in under two minutes. No API key, no signup.

Connect an agent

  1. Add the server

    The endpoint speaks Streamable HTTP at https://www.founder.best/api/mcp. It is hosted and stateless: there is nothing to install from npm and nothing to run locally.

    bash
    claude mcp add --transport http founder-best https://www.founder.best/api/mcp

    Every client is covered on Install the MCP server.

  2. Confirm the tools are there

    Ask your agent to list its tools. You should see seven, none of which need credentials:

    text
    search_products, get_product, search_founders, get_founder, get_launches, get_trending_products, search_categories
  3. Ask a discovery question

    Reads need no connection, so this works immediately:

    Prompt
    Find me 10 SaaS products for generating social media content, and tell me which ones have a free tier.

    Under the hood the agent calls search_products with { query: "generate social media content", limit: 10 }, then get_product for the ones it wants to describe in detail. Each result carries the Founder.best page URL and the product’s website for citations.

The same thing with curl

The REST API mirrors the tools one-to-one. No token, no header beyond an optional User-Agent.

Search with a pricing filter
curl "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?search=social+media+content&pricing=free,freemium&limit=10"

The response is a JSON envelope with pagination and an array of product summaries:

200 OK (trimmed)
{
  "api_version": "1",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-22T12:00:00.000Z",
  "docs": "https://www.founder.best/docs",
  "query": { "search": "social media content", "pricing": ["free", "freemium"], "sort": "relevance", "limit": 10, "page": 1 },
  "pagination": { "page": 1, "limit": 10, "total": 57, "has_more": true, "next": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?search=social+media+content&pricing=free%2Cfreemium&limit=10&page=2", "previous": null },
  "count": 10,
  "products": [
    {
      "type": "product",
      "name": "BidPage",
      "slug": "bidpage",
      "tagline": "Turn your next sponsorship into an auction.",
      "website": "https://bidpage.app",
      "url": "https://www.founder.best/products/bidpage",
      "pricing": { "type": "free", "label": "Free", "has_free_tier": true },
      "categories": [{ "name": "SaaS", "slug": "saas", "url": "https://www.founder.best/categories/saas" }],
      "use_cases": ["Social Media Automation", "Social Media Management", "Content Promotion"],
      "target_audiences": ["Solopreneurs", "Developers", "Sales Teams"],
      "metrics": { "upvotes": 12, "comments": 2, "rating_average": null, "rating_count": 0 },
      "founder": { "name": "Mustafa Sarp Yalcin", "username": "sarp", "url": "https://www.founder.best/founders/sarp" }
    }
  ]
}

Next

search_productsEvery filter, the ranking rules and a worked example.Read moreProducts APIThe REST equivalent with pagination and error handling.Read moreAuthentication & limitsWhy there is no key, and the 120/min and 60/min limits.Read moreGet your product discoveredFor founders: how a listing becomes visible to agents automatically.Read more
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Prefer plain text? Everything here is summarised in /llms.txt.

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