The results are in!
We're thrilled to announce our winners for the Notion MCP Challenge! From dynamic creative journals to meal planning assistants and resume tailoring tools, the range of submissions was impressive.
The creativity and technical depth on display made judging genuinely difficult. Every entry showed real thought about how to leverage Notion MCP in meaningful ways. While we wish we could recognize every submission, here are the three that stood out the most.
Congrats to our winners!
🏆 First Place: NoteRunway
@georgekobaidze built an AI-powered workspace management tool that feels like having a flight control tower for Notion. The hybrid architecture was impressive: direct API access for speed on bulk reads, and Notion MCP as a safety layer for all destructive writes. For anyone drowning in hundreds of orphaned pages and forgotten API keys, this one's for you.
🏅 Runner Ups: DevNotion & Relay
@yashksaini solved a problem we all know too well: Monday standup amnesia. DevNotion is a 3-agent pipeline that automatically harvests a week of GitHub activity every Sunday, narrates it into a first-person blog post, and publishes a planner-style page to Notion and a draft article to DEV. Cool, well-written, and the kind of automation you'd actually run every week.
@caposto tackled a high-stakes real-world problem with Relay: an incident management assistant that handles all the documentation in real-time. A tool like this would be genuinely invaluable at enterprise scale. By letting the agent decide how to interact with the workspace rather than hardcoding specific tool calls, Relay takes full advantage of what MCP makes possible.
Prizes
Our winner will receive:
- An invitation to chat with Ivan Zhao, Co-Founder and CEO of Notion
- $500 USD
- DEV++ Subscription
- Exclusive DEV Winner Badge
Both runner-ups will each receive:
- $500 USD
- DEV++ Subscription
- Exclusive DEV Winner Badge
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Our Sponsor
A huge thank you to Notion for partnering with us on this challenge. Seeing what the community built with Notion MCP is a testament to how powerful AI-native workflows can be when developers get creative with the right tools.
What's Next?
Our second DEV Weekend Challenge is happening now! With Earth Day just around the corner, we welcome you to build something inspired by the planet. Submissions are due April 20, 2026 6:59 AM UTC.
The OpenClaw Challenge is running through April 26 with a $1,200 prize pool across two prompts: build something with OpenClaw, or publish a post that educates and inspires. Six winners total, each taking home $200 and a DEV++ Membership.
Thank you to everyone who participated. We hope you had fun, pushed your skills, and maybe even gave your Notion workspace a much-needed checkup along the way.
See you next time!
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