# How I Improved My Productivity with Cursor and the Heroku MCP Server

DevFeed: [How I Improved My Productivity with Cursor and the Heroku MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-i-improved-my-productivity-with-cursor-and-the-heroku-mcp-server-26451.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/improved-my-productivity-cursor-and-heroku-mcp-server/>)

Author: Julián Duque

Published: 2025-05-05T08:00:12Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>), [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol-mcp.md>), [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Heroku AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku-ai.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [front-end](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/front-end.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [heroku-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku-ai.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [mcp-on-heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-on-heroku.md>), [model-context-protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model-context-protocol.md>), [model-context-protocol-mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model-context-protocol-mcp.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how the author uses Cursor with the Heroku MCP Server to deploy and scale applications from within the code editor. It explains MCP's client-server model and how it connects AI assistants to external tools and data sources.

## Source excerpt

Generative AI has been one incredible tool to improve my productivity not only for work but for personal projects too. I use it every day, from generating stories and images for my online role playing games to solving code and engineering problems and building awesome demos. Lately I've leaned into Cursor as my go-to AI [...] The post How I Improved My Productivity with Cursor and the Heroku MCP Server appeared first on Heroku.