I Built an MCP Server to Automate Dropshipping Product Imports

The Problem That Wouldn't Go Away I've been running dropshipping stores on and off for a couple of years. If you've done it, you know the drill: find a product on AliExpress or a supplier platform, copy the title, download images, tweak the description, set your margins, push it to your Shopify store. Repeat. Fifty times. Every week. It's not hard work. It's just tedious work. And tedious work is where mistakes happen — wrong prices, missing variants, broken image links. I tried automating bits of it with scripts, browser extensions, even some Zapier flows. Nothing stuck. The workflows were too fragmented. Then MCP happened. If you haven't been following, the Model Context Protocol is Anthropic's open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data. When I first read the spec, I had one of those "wait, this is exactly what I need" moments. Instead of building a full app with a UI, authentication flows, and all that overhead, I could build a tool server that any MCP-compati