Jess Lee

for The DEV Team

Posted on Mar 4 • Edited on Mar 9

Join the Notion MCP Challenge: $1,500 in Prizes!

#notionchallenge #devchallenge #mcp #ai

We're excited to announce our newest challenge in partnership with Major League Hacking (MLH) and Notion!

Running through March 29, the Notion MCP Challenge welcomes you to centralize your workflow with AI-powered docs, projects, and notes. Scale side hustles or empires with "human-in-the-loop" systems that run globally without ever hitting snooze!

Whether you're an engineer, a founder, or someone who just likes to build cool things, this is your chance to show the world what AI-powered workflows can accomplish.

We hope you give it a try!

Our Prompt

Your mandate is to build the most impressive system or process using Notion MCP.

It can be across any field — engineering, sales, finance, creative work, you name it. We want to see your sick integrations!

Hear more about the challenge from Ivan Zhao, Co-Founder and CEO of Notion:

We can't wait to see the workflow that gives you superpowers!

Judging Criteria

All qualified entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges on the following criteria:

Originality & Creativity
Technical Complexity
Practical Implementation

Prizes

One winner will receive:

An invitation to chat with Ivan Zhao, Co-Founder and CEO of Notion
$500 USD
DEV++ Subscription
Exclusive DEV Winner Badge

Two 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.

How To Participate

All participants must publish a post using the submission template below. Your project must use Notion MCP as a core part of the build.

Notion MCP Challenge Submission Template

Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.

Notion Resources

Everything you need to hit the ground running:

Notion MCP Documentation — Get started with Notion MCP
Notion MCP Help Center — FAQs and troubleshooting
Notion API Reference — Full API documentation
Notion Integrations Gallery — Connect Notion to your other tools
Notion Academy — Learn Notion and validate your skills with badges
The Ultimate Hackathon Team Hub — A ready-to-use Notion workspace built for hackathon teams

Special For Students 🎓

Students can get a free Notion Plus Plan when they sign up with a qualified .edu email.

Project Ideas 💡

Build an iMessage assistant that has access to your Notion workspace
Automate a task in your browser using a Notion page
Track your feature backlog in Notion and let an agent take the first pass at it

Important Dates

March 4: Notion MCP Challenge begins!
March 29: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PST
April 9: Winners Announced

We can't wait to see the workflows you build. Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.

Good luck and happy building!

Top comments (18)

Juan Isidoro García Cifuentes • Mar 5

If I have time, I want to participate! I'm so excited!! Good luck to all the participants!

Lawrence.io • Mar 5

Interesting

Lucas • Mar 4

Might have to join

Daniel Nwaneri • Mar 16

Built a knowledge evaluator that uses Workers AI to score conversation excerpts and routes them to Notion based on confidence — high signal items auto-promote, ambiguous ones wait in a Review Queue for human judgment, and Claude Desktop reads them back via MCP. The bidirectional loop was the interesting part to build.
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