Solo-And-Sub-Five-Person Atlassian Marketplace ISV Connect-To-Forge Concierge Migration Before Connect Local Installs Lock In Q4 2026

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Atlassian Connect reaches end of support December 2026. Marketplace stopped accepting new Connect apps September 2025, existing Connect apps stopped getting updates March 2026, and local installs lock down through Q4. Solo and sub-5-person Marketplace ISVs are sunsetting whole portfolios because Forge rewrites are too big — CollabSoft already retired 20 of their apps. A concierge migration shop that brings shared Forge scaffolding, auth-and-storage patterns, and a fixed-price-per-app rewrite would save dozens of micro-vendors.

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The wedge is a public OSS Forge starter that ports the 80% of Connect apps that are 'iframe panel + REST + storage.' Sell the rewrite for a 30-day fixed price ($3-5k) above that scaffold. You're racing a deadline — December is hard. Build the starter first, then bag the work.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Big partners migrate big apps. Atlassian's own tooling covers the data move, not the rewrite. The hundreds of solo and 2-3-person Marketplace vendors with one or two niche apps face a binary choice: sunset or invest more in the rewrite than the app earns in two years.

Atlassian Forge automated migration platform Tooling exists for the data side but the app rewrite itself is on the vendor. No turnkey scaffolding for the Connect-iframe-and-REST patterns most micro-vendors use.

Forge Apps (third-party vendor) Targets larger ISVs with budgets to do it themselves. No fixed-price-per-app sub-$5k offer that solo vendors can stomach.

Praecipio / Tempo and other Atlassian Solution Partners Enterprise consulting rates. A solo vendor with a $50/mo Marketplace app cannot justify $30k of consulting to keep it alive.

sources (4)

other https://www.collabsoft.com/blog/forge-update "Migrated one app to Forge while sunsetting 20 others due to effort" 2026-04-15

other https://www.atlassian.com/blog/developer/announcing-connect-... "Connect end of support Q4 2026, local installs locked from March 2026" 2025-09-17

other https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/... "Give Connect App a new life on Forge before Connect sunset" 2026-03-10

other https://www.forge-apps.com/blog/deprecation-of-atlassian-con... "Apps that haven't migrated may lose Jira Cloud compatibility" 2026-02-05

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