
I Built an AI That Tells You If Your Idea Already Exists — And Syncs Results to Notion
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge What I Built Idea Reality Tracker — a dual-MCP pipeline that validates software ideas against 5 live platforms and automatically syncs structured results to a Notion database. Instead of googling "has anyone built this?" and drowning in 10 tabs of noise, you describe your idea in one sentence. In 15 seconds you get: A Reality Score (0–100) measuring how crowded the space is Market momentum analysis (accelerating / stable / declining) Competitor counts from GitHub, npm, PyPI, Hacker News, and Product Hunt A Build / Pivot / Kill recommendation All automatically saved to your Notion workspace as a searchable decision log. The Story Behind It Six months ago, I asked ChatGPT if my idea for an AI trading memory system was original. It said "This is a unique and innovative concept!" I believed it and spent weeks building. Then I built idea-reality-mcp — a tool that scans actual platforms instead of relying on LLM knowledge. I ran my own idea t
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