I Built a Notion MCP Job Alert Bot to Help My Designer Brother Find Work online from a developing country
(I made this post intially for the Notion MCP challenge but since it is more storydriven I prepared another version to submit and use this one to share to the community, with my back story for buil...

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(I made this post intially for the Notion MCP challenge but since it is more storydriven I prepared another version to submit and use this one to share to the community, with my back story for building my tool Nancy. Sorry in advance if at some point it sounds like an ad for Notion MCP) - Read the short version here There's a version of this story where I talk about architecture patterns and API design. I'll get there. But first, let me tell you why this project exists. My brother is one of the most talented designers I know. We live in Cameroon, work together at a startup that doesn't pay enough yet, and needed side gigs to survive. We tried Upwork but payments aren't supported in our country, so your earnings just sit there, locked, visible but untouchable. We tried Fiverr but my brother's account got blocked immediately after we landed our first client, no warning, no reason given. He tried to verify his identity with his national ID card and couldn't, because Fiverr only accepted p