Jon Radoff is not a typical MCP contributor. He created Game of Thrones Ascent (the first GoT social game), Star Trek Timelines (licensed from CBS), founded Beamable (acquired by Skillz in January 2026), and writes Metavert Meditations — a Substack with 38,000 subscribers covering games, AI agents, and the metaverse.
He registered two MCP servers this week. Both were built entirely through conversation with Claude Code.
LastSaaS — The Free SaaS Boilerplate
LastSaaS (43 stars) is a production-ready SaaS boilerplate — Go backend, React 19 frontend, MongoDB, Stripe billing — that positions itself against paid competitors like ShipFast ($169), MakerKit ($199–599), and Supastarter ($299+). It is free and MIT-licensed.
The feature list is extensive: email/OAuth/magic link/MFA auth, multi-tenant RBAC with three permission tiers, Stripe subscriptions with per-seat pricing and dual credit buckets, white-label branding with custom CSS/HTML injection, scoped API keys with SHA-256 hashing, 19 webhook event types with HMAC-SHA256 signing, and a system health monitoring dashboard with 8 real-time charts.
The differentiator: 26 MCP tools let an AI assistant query ARR trends, search user logs, check system health, and manage the admin dashboard through conversation. None of the paid competitors offer this. The MCP server is not an afterthought — it is positioned as the primary way you administer the platform.
LightCMS — The AI-Native CMS
LightCMS (5 stars) takes the concept further. It is a lightweight CMS with 43 MCP tools — and the design intent is that the MCP server is how you manage your website. Create pages, edit content, manage templates, search and replace across the site, version control with diffs and reverts, and static site generation — all through natural language. A traditional admin panel exists, but the architecture is optimized for agentic interaction.
~5,000 lines of Go, deliberately lean so Claude Code can understand and extend the entire codebase through conversation. OAuth 2.1 with PKCE for secure remote access from sandboxed applications.
The Thesis
Radoff wrote in his State of AI Agents in 2026 essay that "imagination, not engineering capacity, is the bottleneck." Both projects are demonstrations of that belief: a single person with vision directing AI tools to ship production-grade software that competes with funded teams.
The MCP angle is strategic, not incidental. By building MCP interfaces as first-class citizens, Radoff is designing for a world where the admin is an AI agent — not a human clicking through a dashboard.
LastSaaS score: 55. LightCMS score: 51. No flags. Both MIT.
Sources: Jon Radoff — Wikipedia · Substack · LastSaaS — repo · project page · LightCMS — repo · project page · Scorecard: io.github.jonradoff (score 55)