Some time ago our team published three Python packages on PyPI: graphql-mcp-server, nife-restapi-mcp-server, nife-mcp-server. MCP servers - bridges that let AI models talk to GraphQL and REST APIs. We pushed them and got back to work. No launch post. No dashboard. Nobody checked the numbers.

This week I finally did. Last 30 days, per pepy.tech:

graphql-mcp-server: 381 downloads - https://pypi.org/project/graphql-mcp-server/

nife-restapi-mcp-server: 338 downloads - https://pypi.org/project/nife-restapi-mcp-server/

nife-mcp-server: 353 downloads - https://pypi.org/project/nife-mcp-server/

1,072 installs in a month on packages nobody was marketing. The five repos behind them sit at 59 stars.

Small numbers. But a pip install is the most honest metric in software. No signup form, no email captured, no demo call. Someone had a problem, typed install, and left. You never find out who.…