Codegeist 2024 is your chance to shape the future of work! This year’s hackathon revolves around Atlassian’s system of work—a philosophy that empowers teams across the globe to collaborate, plan, track, and deliver greater impact. This is your opportunity to create impactful apps that transform how teams get things done.
Join a global community of developers and innovators to build apps that solve real-world problems and shape the future of teamwork. No matter your experience, this is the platform to unleash your creativity and make your mark on the Atlassian ecosystem.
What is Codegeist
Codegeist is Atlassian’s annual hackathon where developers come to unleash their potential by building custom apps and integrations on Atlassian’s serverless app development platform — Forge. Developers from around the globe showcase their creativity through apps that extend Atlassian products including Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Compass.
Why Join 
- Learn how to build with Forge and create custom actions for the new Rovo AI Agents
- Extend Atlassian products to build the workflows and features you’ve always wanted
- Make connections within the Atlassian global developer community
- Compete for $170,000 in prizes
Get Started 
- Register for the hackathon
- Set up your Forge development environment
- Learn about the Forge platform
- Start Brainstorming
We can’t wait to see what you build!
Requirements
What to Build
Build an app using Atlassian’s Forge platform in one of the following 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.
Bonus Prizes
- 4 Best Runs on Atlassian Apps. $1,000 to 4 projects that do not egress to any external domains or services and exclusively store data using Forge Hosted storage.
- 3 Best Connect to Forge Apps. $1,000 to 3 projects that successfully migrate an existing Connect App to Forge. To be eligible for the Connect to Forge Apps category, the Entrant must provide a summary explaining how they approached adopting Forge capabilities from their Connect app.
- 3 Best Rovo Apps. $1,000 to 3 projects that utilize Rovo, Atlassian’s AI-powered knowledge discovery system.
What to Submit
Access. Provide access to an installation link for the judges and review team to test your application. To create an installation link, follow the instructions to Start sharing your app.
Demo Video. Include a video (under 5 minutes) that demonstrates your project and any relevant bonus prize specifics. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo, and made public.
Category. Identify which category and bonus prizes you are submitting to. Provide any necessary materials for the bonus prizes (ex. Connect to Forge, Runs on Atlassian, Rovo ).
Submit. Before the deadline, complete the entire submission form on Devpost and include your App ID located in the Developer Console.
Forge + AWS
The Forge platform is powered by AWS, leveraging services like Lambda to provide scalability, reliability, and performance. We are proud to feature AWS as our Codegeist 2024 sponsor.
Prizes
First Place
• $20,000 in USD
• 4 tickets to Team 2025 (does not include travel and accommodation)
• Meeting with Atlassian developers (virtual)
• Atlassian blog post featuring winner"
Second Place
• $12,000 in USD
• Atlassian blog post featuring winner
Third Place
• $8,000 in USD
• Atlassian blog post featuring winner
Bonus Prize | Best Runs on Atlassian Apps
• $1,000 in USD
Bonus Prize | Best Connect to Forge App
• $1,000 in USD
Bonus Prize | Best Rovo Apps
• $1,000 in USD
Participation Prize
Atlassian Developer Swag Pack
** Awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis to Entrants of Eligible Submissions, including participating members of a Team or Organization, while supplies last (max 4 per Submission)
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
A panel of qualified judges
Judging Criteria
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Quality of the Idea
Includes creativity and originality of the idea. -
Implementation of the Idea
Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer. -
Potential Impact
Includes the extent to which the solution can help the most Atlassian users.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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