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Coda 2.0 — A new doc for teams.
Coda 2.0 introduces a new set of building blocks for team collaborationーlike workspaces, locking, and cross-docーand three paid plans for teams of all sizes.
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So cool; I've loved this product ever since I tried it in beta. Unfortunately I can't use it for real as a Google account is required... @shishirmehrotra is that changing anytime soon?
Excited to bring Coda 2.0 to Product Hunt!
We launched Coda 1.0 on Product Hunt about a year ago, and have been blown away by the response. Since then, Coda makers have continually amazed us with their "docs as powerful as apps"—like this fresh take on 1-1s from Jenny Emick (a Design Lead at Square), to this Packs-enabled Prioritized Productivity Guide from Des Traynor (Intercom co-founder). We've seen docs spread through thousands of teams, each with their own patterns, and the community has brought us an endless stream of insightful ideas, constructive critiques, and "can I 🙏 get..." requests. We took everything we heard, brainstormed and ranked, and picked a clear theme for where we wanted to focus: Teams.
Coda 2.0 is a simpler, cleaner, and faster doc for teams—with drag-and-drop templates, a new model for filters, and a visual refresh to give your team a more beautiful and efficient space to make. It comes with a new set of building blocks designed for team collaboration: like workspaces and folders, a space for teams to more easily share and organize their docs, locking and permissions to give you greater control and confidence over information in Coda, and (at last!), by popular demand, cross-docーa way to bring data from one doc into another. Finally, this release includes three paid plans, with a broad free tier, plans for teams of all sizes, and a new approach to pricing called Maker Billing.
We like to say that if Coda 1.0 was for makers, Coda 2.0 is for the whole team. What will your team Coda? :)
Hi! Love Coda - just to confirm, Coda now requires $10 a month for someone to create new Coda docs. Is that correct?
@godsgotvision Hey Justin, Coda still has a very usable free tier so whether you pay or not really depends on your needs. If you are using Coda a lot by yourself and are hitting some of the free plan limits, I'd recommend the Pro tier, which is $10 / month per doc maker. And as you mentioned, a doc maker is someone who can create docs. We are trying to align the value that users get out of Coda with what they pay, which is why we created the Maker Billing model. You pay for the users on a team who are getting the most value out of Coda, versus those who just edit or view docs. Guessing you saw it already, but there are more details here: https://coda.io/pricing
Happy to answer any other questions.
I've been using Coda since it launched and it's been a fine experience, but recently I went on a trip where I knew I would have unreliable internet or no internet, and unfortunately Coda has no offline option. Not an option to download everything before hand and not an option to download specific documents. I had to move all the documents for that trip to google drive... since then I've slowly moved back to google drive. Drive does not have some cool UI, but it works offline and I find that to be more important.
This is fantastic! Congrats on 2.0!
When I first discovered Coda during the PH Makers Fest earlier this year, I never thought I would become so excited about someone else’s product. Coda is brilliantly ingenious in how it approaches structured-data-driven docs. It's simpler than spreadsheets, yet it allows building really complicated connections and workflows. It's a no-code tool that can be used casually by anyone — but the versatility of its tables-columns-actions system pretty much transcends it into the software engineering realm. E.g., did you know that it was Turing complete? Check out the Snake game I built on Coda with just the basic tools it provides and no hacks — how crazy is that? 🤯
However, it’s not just maker shenanigans and personal use. As I was getting more involved with the community, I started seeing Coda being used as a staple of people's businesses. Small and large companies alike were running their back offices in Coda docs. In fact (and it’s a shameless plug 🙊) some started hiring me to help them with more complex calculations. That’s how I started freelancing as a Coda consultant, and this now pays my bills. So I’m twice as excited now to see Coda advancing into the teams and mid- and large businesses realm — сould also mean more work for me 😄
Lastly, there’s one thing I've been willing to do for a while now. I’m going to start Coda Tricks — a blog about Coda. I’ve been working for the clients, helping in the community, and building my own docs for quite a while now — and collected some expertise that I believe will help every Coda maker out there. The blog will focus on handy tricks and best practices for making Coda docs a joy to build and use. I’m currently writing my first articles for it — follow the link above and subscribe to the mailing list to be notified when it goes live later this week.
@paul_danyliuk Your Coda creations are often the talk of the team here. Really excited to see your new blog as well!
Congrats on coda 2.0 :) I have been eagerly waiting for cross doc... I am ready to use it in calibrations/talent management for the entire team at every level..
@peeyush_ranjan Hi Peeyush, Thanks for using Coda. Really excited for your scenario. It's a great use of Cross-doc. Keep the feedback coming! -Jaime
@peeyush_ranjan That's a great use case for cross-doc, would love to see how you end up using it. Btw, if you want a starting point, you might enjoy this template: Shishir's Practical Guide to Performance Calibration Meetings
@shishirmehrotra Thanks, I was wondering about that exactly, if there is a template.. will check it out..
Coda is great! The pricing structure really confuses me however - https://coda.io/pricing
@tails hey Dan, thanks for the feedback. I'm one of the folks who worked on the pricing stuff so would love to hear more about which pieces were unclear. Mind sending a message to support@coda.io?
Working on pricing has been an interesting project. One of my observations has been that there are two important levers (among others): fairness and simplicity. The two are often opposed because the more fair you try to make something, the less simple it often becomes. For example, it is easy to understand that you pay for everyone on your team. That's simple. But it can also be really expensive. The way people use Coda, you often start out with just a few people really digging in and making docs, and others observe or edit them. To try to align the value that folks get out of Coda with what we charge, we decided to base our pricing around the folks who are making docs. So we traded some simplicity for some fairness.
But we do want to make sure that our pricing is as understandable as possible, so would love your feedback.
Coda 2.0 is an awesome product. I never thought a doc could be so exciting to use! What excites me the most is the flexibility to build something that fits for you and your team, with formulas and packs that cover all the use cases you can think of.
It's also sooo much faster to do even do some basic data manipulation and visualization in Coda, too. Sometimes I throw stuff in there just to use Coda, because it brings me so much more joy than Excel/Sheets 😍
@jeffrey_withington it's always great to hear that Coda gives someone joy. Thanks for the kind words.
Coda has been improving super fast over the last few months, really outstanding work by the team. I use it for work, I use it for play, I am a bit obsessed with it.
I can see Coda becoming a future default doc type, there's certainly no need for spreadsheets for me anymore. But it's more than that, Coda makes me feel empowered to solve problems. In the past I would google for an app that fits my needs, now I fire up a Coda doc and get solving! It's just fun to have so much easy power in your fingers.
We are a small team of 6 and we use about a dozen specialised apps. Some mini, single-use affairs, some more complex like a product management monster with many features. We're ditching our CRM and moving to Coda soon. We're just scratching the surface, can't wait for more.
Great product that keeps getting better. Love that I'll have more ways to organize info through workspaces. Big congrats on the launch!
@jennifer_emick Your 1-1 doc is one of my favorite examples - I adapted my own 1-1 docs to match. Very insightful and creative!
@cmoebis Hehe, I thought the same. I wondered if Panic did some weird versioning stunt on a new release 😂 - it is also interesting to see that Panic does not seem to have filed for a trademark.
@cmoebis We're big fans of Panic! They were ready to transition to a new name (Nova) for their big new release, and we worked out naming with them awhile back -- see https://panic.com/nova/march-2019/
@shishirmehrotra ah very cool then! You get to inherit some of the branding aura around Coda then! ;-)
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