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260 searches/mo+46% ↑rising

Confluence bulk admin contact tool that lets admins query all non-personal spaces with their admins and emails in one export, with one-click email draft generation

Every mid-to-large Confluence instance has this exact problem and Atlassian has never shipped it, so even a simple tool is a 10x improvement over 400 manual clicks

Built for Confluence instance administrators managing 100+ spaces who need to audit or communicate with space admins at scale..

The angle

Solve the single most painful Confluence admin task that Atlassian's own UI ignores: cross-space bulk communication, making it a recurring governance utility not a one-off script

“I need to send an email to all Space Admins letting them know about new Automation programs that impact all Spaces in our instance. How do I get a list of all n…”

The receipts — real demand

“I need to send an email to all Space Admins letting them know about new Automation programs that impact all Spaces in our instance. How do I get a list of all non-personal Spaces and all the Admin's names (every Space has multiple Admins) and their email addresses? The only way I can see right now is to go to Space details for each of our 400 Spaces and pull the list of names manually, and then try to do a mail …”
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6 / 10 · idea quality

demand score 6.5 — the receipts are below

Pain 8
Willingness to pay 4
Feasibility 7
Specificity 9
Audience 8
Competition 6

Why this is a gap

Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.

The market

Confluence instance administrators managing 100+ spaces who need to audit permissions and communicate with space admins at scale. ~260 monthly searches shows focused, recurring demand from people with a specific admin pain.

Competition & the opening

Wedge play crowded — win on a narrow angle Moat 3/10 · thin angle Market 4/10 · small niche
Crowded market · 6/10 vs Atlassian Confluence native admin UI (Space Directory + permissions export)ScriptRunner for Confluence (Adaptavist) — REST API scripting for bulk admin tasksBotron Space Permission Manager — bulk space permission reporting and managementRefined for Confluence — admin governance and reporting add-onAtlassian Marketplace: 'Bulk Space Permissions' category apps (e.g. Midori apps)Custom REST API scripts (Atlassian REST API is public; admins self-serve this in Python/Postman)

Few competitors in this niche (2/10 crowded). Most admins write one-off scripts or use Atlassian's limited UI exports. The gap is a simple report exporter: list all spaces, all admins, mail list, one click.

What's hard to build

Confluence's API requires admin-level OAuth and handles pagination and custom field schema inconsistently. Building a bulletproof exporter that works across 100+ spaces with nested permissions hierarchies requires careful API design. The friction is low-level: Atlassian deprecates endpoints and changes response structures without warning.

Why now

Confluence admins manage multi-space governance but have no native bulk reporting; compliance and comms remain manual.

How you'd monetize

$199-499/mo per-instance or one-time $99 tool