I Tried 4 Ways to List My MCP Server. Here's What Blocked Each One.

Last week I finished setting up an MCP server on Apify. The scraper runs, the MCP endpoint works, and I have three actors that seemed like obvious candidates for distribution: a Naver Place scraper, a Naver News aggregator, and a Melon Chart tracker. Next step: list them somewhere people can find them. I found MCPize — a marketplace for MCP servers. Reasonable-looking site, developer-friendly pitch, 85% revenue share. I made an account and tried to register my first server. Four hours later, I hadn't published anything. But I had a complete map of exactly what each path requires. The Four Registration Paths MCPize offers four ways to list a server. Here's what I found when I actually tried each one. 1. GitHub Repo (Recommended) The UI labels this as the recommended path. You give it a GitHub repository URL, MCPize installs a GitHub App on your account, and it pulls your code to handle deployment. Blocker: Requires installing the MCPize GitHub App on your GitHub account. No way around t