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From 80K Views to Hacker News and Product Hunt: Desktop Commander Catches the MCP Wave
Since mid-2023, I’ve been building tools to help make LLMs more useful in real workflows. That’s been my core belief from the start:
LLMs are only as powerful as the tools they can use
At first, I was extending ChatGPT with custom bookmarklets and CustomGPT. In 2024, I was hopping between Cursor, Cline, Bolt and Windsurf, trying to find a flow I liked. They were powerful, sure — but also felt boxed-in. Heavy IDEs. API rate anxiety. Token friction.
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Then in the last quarter of 2024, Anthropic released MCP (Multi-Modal Command Protocol) support in the Claude Desktop app. That was the unlock I’d been waiting for.
Enter Desktop Commander
In December 2024, I built and released Desktop Commander — my own Claude MCP that gives Claude the ability to:
- Execute terminal commands with streaming output
- Read, search, and edit files with surgical precision
- Manage processes and directories
- Perform in-depth code analysis and generation
