I am once again trying Paper and once again I will tell you this is truly an example of how not to do onboarding. I mean this as constructive criticism, but hopefully everyone can learn a thing or two as this is an important investment you can make in your own products and it is _entirely in your control_.
1) for starters, there's basically no actual onboarding
2) there's a small widget to setup MCP, which I hear you basically must use to get value out of it
3) you click it, you have to install a desktop app - ok fine odd, its 2026, but whatever
4) there's then once again no onboarding, its just the web view wrapped in a desktop app
5) click a new tiny widget in the corner and get sent to docs
6) docs tell you to click a button that doesnt exist
7) be willing enough at this point to continue, create a new document or click into one, then you'll find a buried connect button (or the same button that tricked you previously) and you can finally register the MCP
there are so many ways you could improve upon this, but i really hope folks take this seriously. it doesnt matter how good your product is if you dont make it easy for new customers to use it, and thats more true now than ever with the market expanding
sorry this is ranty but i really hope people consider this stuff