• Steps for success
1. Set up your dev environment
2. Brainstorm what project you want to build
3. Bootstrap your project with sample apps
• Forge Resources and API Documentation
Documentation
Videos
Useful Links for Bonus Prize Categories
• Getting Help
• Atlassian Marketplace
Steps for success
1. Set up your dev environment
- Codegeist Quickstart Video: Learn everything you’ll need to get started in less than 5 minutes.
- Atlassian Cloud Developer License: Sign up for free development and testing instances of Jira, Confluence, and more.
- Getting Started with Forge documentation: Follow step-by-step instructions for everything you’ll need to start building with Forge, including Node.js and the Forge CLI.
2. Brainstorm what project you want to build
Draw inspiration from challenges that you and your team are facing today, and frame them against the prize categories.
Prize Categories:
- Apps for Teamwork foundations - Equipping all teams to align their work to goals, track work, and allow knowledge to flow across an organization
- Apps for World-class software development - Helping product and development teams build great software by discovering the right ideas, building the right thing, and improving developer experience.
- Apps for High-velocity service management - Driving high-velocity IT service management that helps you run services and support employees and customers.
- Apps for Executive strategy and planning - Delivering capabilities to help leadership set strategy, manage their portfolio, and optimize customer value.
Looking at apps across various categories in the Atlassian Marketplace can also be helpful for inspiration and refining your ideas.
Apps in the Atlassian Marketplace:
- DevOps: Apps that support every stage of the DevOps loop, from planning, building, testing, deployment, to observability
- ITSM apps: Apps that help improve support SLAs, asset management, and the customer experience
- Business apps: Apps that help business teams work better together, from product launches, managing marketing campaigns, employee on-boarding, to forecasting results
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Artificial Intelligence apps: Apps powered by AI and ML to help boost efficiency and delivery.
3. Bootstrap your project with sample apps
Sample apps and tutorials by product, published in the developer docs:
- Jira
- Jira Service Management
- Confluence
- Bitbucket
- Compass
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Rovo (AI-powered virtual agents)
Other useful sample apps/tutorials:
- Jira Content Summarizer
- Confluence page summarizer and space index organizer
- Confluence keyword extractor
Forge Resources and API Documentation
Documentation
- Getting Started with Forge: First time building a Forge app? Build your first hello worldfor Jira.
- Tutorials and Guides: A collection of useful tutorials that dive deeper into various Forge features and capabilities
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developer.atlassian.com: The home page for all Atlassian platform and product API docs
Videos
- Codegeist Quickstart Video: The essential steps needed to quickly set up your dev environment.
- Atlassian Developer YouTube Channel: From 5-minute tutorials that break down the fundamentals of Forge, deep-dives with coding demos, to the latest news roundups for everything happening with Forge.
- Customizing Confluence Cloud with Forge: Beginner level training session
- Customizing Jira with Forge: Beginner level training session
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Webinar Recording: Building Rovo Agents with Forge: YouTube video that dives into building Rovo custom virtual agents with Forge
Useful Links for Bonus Prize Categories
- Best “Runs on Atlassian” apps
- Best Connect to Forge apps
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Best Rovo AI Agent apps
- Unlock enterprise knowledge with Rovo (blog)
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Rovo resources (dev community post)
Getting Help
If you run into any technical challenges and need a helping hand, join the Atlassian Developer Community. Be sure to use the tag codegeist-2024 on your questions so that it is easy for other participants to see them.
Atlassian Marketplace
If you’re interested in learning more about the Marketplace, including how to become a partner and the requirements to list and sell apps to Atlassian customers, here are some useful links:
NOTE: Not required for the hackathon

