I added an MCP server to my image host — here's everything that bit me

Description and use

<p>A while back I wrote about <a href="https://dev.to/kishanx08/why-i-built-an-image-hostingx02-4a8d">why I built x02</a> — I needed somewhere to host images for my own projects and reuse them across sites, and over time I added only what I needed.</p> <p>It's still that. But the biggest change this year is that you can now connect x02 to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok and just ask for your files:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>"Find the screenshot I uploaded last Tuesday and tell me what's in it."</em></p> </blockquote> <p>That's an MCP server. Building it taught me more about the protocol than the spec di

Problem

<p>A while back I wrote about <a href="https://dev.to/kishanx08/why-i-built-an-image-hostingx02-4a8d">why I built x02</a> — I needed somewhere to host images for my own projects and reuse them across sites, and over time I added only what I needed.</p> <p>It's still that. But the biggest change this year is that you can now connect x02 to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok and just ask for your files:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>"Find the screenshot I uploaded last Tuesday and tell me what's in it."</em></p> </blockquote> <p>That's an MCP server. Building it taught me more about the protocol than the spec di

Outcome

<p>A while back I wrote about <a href="https://dev.to/kishanx08/why-i-built-an-image-hostingx02-4a8d">why I built x02</a> — I needed somewhere to host images for my own projects and reuse them across sites, and over time I added only what I needed.</p> <p>It's still that. But the biggest change this year is that you can now connect x02 to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok and just ask for your files:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>"Find the screenshot I uploaded last Tuesday and tell me what's in it."</em></p> </blockquote> <p>That's an MCP server. Building it taught me more about the protocol than the spec di

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I added an MCP server to my image host — here's everything that bit me

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