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Coda 3.0 — The doc that brings it all together
With a brand new editor, an open Packs platform, and hundreds of your most requested updates, Coda 3.0 is ready to bring your team together.
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@5harath Oh many lessons!
For this release in particular, there was a tough moment 2 years ago when we realized that to get to the next level of what we wanted "all-in-one docs" to be, we had to break off a team to rewrite a foundational component (the editor) from scratch. For a product that was only a year old at the time, that's a pretty big decision to make. But if you have a clear view of where you're headed, it's easier to make the tradeoff.
Three years ago, right here on Product Hunt, we launched Coda 1.0, a new set of building blocks that would allow anyone to make docs as powerful as apps. We followed up soon after with Coda 2.0, adding new building blocks designed for all the teams we saw collaborating in Coda. We simplified common patterns with templates and introduced a customer-friendly pricing model called Maker Billing.
Even though Coda 2.0 brought teams’ workflows closer together, we found we couldn’t fully realize our vision of the all-in-one doc until we bridged a few more divides, some of which have been entrenched in documents for decades. To truly unite pages with tables, authoring with publishing, and maybe most importantly, our product team with the Coda community, we decided to take the last two years to rebuild our editor and reimagine our Pack ecosystem. And today, all that hard, important work pays off.
I’m excited to announce Coda 3.0: the doc that brings it all together: words, data, teams, and the whole maker community.
Here’s the summary.
• A new editor with (1) customizable page layouts, so you can finally have content side by side. And (2) the ability to bring the endless opportunities of a page inside a table row with canvas columns. All built with collaboration and performance in mind.
• A new Pack ecosystem. We’re inviting anyone to come make Packs that will change how docs look, work, and integrate. You can do it right in your browser with minimal coding necessary. We also kicked off a series of business investments: a marketplace for both free and paid offerings, a revenue-share based affiliate system, and a Maker Fund to kickstart a thriving ecosystem. Right now we have dozens of Packs, soon we’ll have thousands.
• And hundreds of your most requested updates: Everything from dark mode, to custom templates, to reactions. Details matter.
Feel free to read the full story on the blog. We can’t wait to see what you Coda.
/@coda @shishirmehrotra congrats on the launch! The Coda team is doing amazing work 🤗
The Block Party 4 months ago blown my mind 🤯
The possibility to create your own Packs and deeply integrate Coda with your favorite tools is a game changer that I am happy to be part of 🙌
Add the new layout editor and canvas column to the mix and now Coda delivers on its promise, a doc as powerful as an app.
Long @coda_hq
@coda_hq @leanzubrezki Thank you for the kind words and being such a great partner. 4 packs on launch day is just mindblowing.
Coda. Is. Amazing.
10x more powerful than Notion and just 10% harder to learn. 🤓👍 Biggest no brainer in no code right now.
@jasondiller Thank you Jason! Hopefully we can get that percentage down a bit more with this release.
@jasondiller Okay if I get this printed on a crewneck sweater for my team? 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@nickvalluri it's a small percentage.
I've said this before... Coda is Varsity, Notion is JV...
and whatever the f Google is trying to do with Docs looks like a Senior playing on the JV team...
@andrewstinger Yes, but let's do vneck and crew neck tshirts as well... I'll pay for them as long as my team at https://www.getbankcard.com/ can get a shirt too! Email me and I'll get it going!
?makers I must say that your intro video is one of the best I’ve ever seen. What’s the main advantage using Coda compared to Notion? Do you offer a migration tool? We have our whole company project in Notion 🤞
@galaxyx7 Coda is much more powerful, the formula language is 100x Notion plus you can use formulas everywhere in your doc. Add automations, Packs, forms and charts to the mix and you get the whole package.
You have a Notion Importer that lets you import your Notion workspace and you have also a Notion Pack (I developed it) that you can use to start testing how your project maybe look like in Coda and start using some of the features without doing the whole switch at once ;)
Congratulations on the launch! We're super excited about the new pack ecosystem and will be launching our Tally pack today! 🎉
@marie_martens super excited to have gone on the journey to launch with you all! So appreciate your feedback from the early days as we built the platform
@marie_martens Thank you Marie! I first read about Tally on PH so it's really fun to come full circle and have you be a launch partner with us today.
Coda is fantastic.
I discovered Coda due to Product Hunt a few years ago. It immediately captured my heart as a low-code superdocs platform where I could build any sort of a workflow I could imagine. And when I say any it's not an exaggeration. In my almost three years with Coda I built all sorts of things for business and fun: from task trackers for the whole team and pizza delivery sites to games like Snake and Poker. These alone should prove it to you how powerful Coda is and how far away it is from the competitors like Airtable, Monday, Clickup, and the PH darling Notion.
I wholeheartedly hope that this 3.0 milestone release makes it even more enticing for all the low-code / no-code / productivity / management and the other maker folks, as well as all the Clickup / Asana / Notion / etc diehard fans to give Coda a try. Sure, some struggle will be required to learn to use it properly. But once you do, this will be the superpower you could never dream of.
And if you need someone to be your guide, follow yours truly on Twitter CodaTricks 🙂 I'm going to launch some courses soon, for which I partnered up with Coda to make.
@paul_danyliuk Thank you for providing feedback to so many aspects of this launch, and super excited for your courses!
One of the best products.... like ever. The pricing is Sweeeeet for indies and teams. Shout out to the whole team. You rock.
Congrats Coda team! Loved using Coda at Zapier and my startup cocoNFT uses it for everything. Excited to see this next stage of the journey!
@reid_robinson Excited for what you can cook up with all that's launched now! Our users keep impressing us with what they figure out Coda can do to help their teams
This has probably been the most exciting thing I've worked on in my career. With the Packs SDK, the Maker Fund, and revenue sharing, I'm so excited by all the ways Makers can build a business on Coda and the amazing opportunities that will unlock for our customers. If you're interested in building on Coda, please get in touch with us via coda.io/partners!
Amazing! Love to see the new packs ecosystem and how Coda will allow makers build incredible businesses with Coda!
Coda has been growing a lot and the version 3.0 has is mature enough to put it's related competition in the shadow.
And this is just the beginning of a joyful ride, I would say, "give it a shot" and start to develop the 🏗️ Maker🏗️ in you
Coda has been out ahead of the other workflow apps for a while now, but these updates unlock so many possibilities. With the Packs Studio ecosystem in particular, we're going to see an explosion of functionality really quickly.
@nhe You're proof positive of that explosion already - the Copper pack is next level!
Congrats @shishirmehrotra and the Coda team! My co-founder Aaron Veale and I have been fortunate enough to be a part of the early adopters of the new Pack ecosystem with our Blossom pack for user researchers. https://coda.io/packs/blossom-10138
I've never seen a company invest into its platform like Coda has with their new Pack ecosystem. They really figured out a way to provide a killer developer experience while also making entrepreneurs feel that Coda's platform is worth betting the future of their businesses on.
Based on my personal experience, the noteworthy elements are:
1. Build and deploy your entire Pack completely in Coda's web based dev environment, and iterate on it inside of Coda directly while you are building. The online IDE feels like VSCode that you essentially plug into your live Coda doc. I've done most of my development in this environment because I like to quickly iterate with my real Coda docs as I'm playing with ideas.
2. You can also download Coda's CLI tools to run your Pack code against a simulated Coda doc environment locally, which means you can fully support best practices like test automation and mocking. I've done this as well and written tests for our pack using Mocha.
3. The SDK is built with typescript with very extensive types defined with code linting that saved me so many hours of bug hunting.
4. Your Pack's formulas and actions run in Coda's own backend environment, not client side. This eliminates the need to spin up your own backend for a whole class of projects that just need API credentials to be off of the client. Coda also has first class support for many types of authentication, and the Pack's authentication is deeply integrated with Coda's existing auth system, so for many projects you don't even need a backend at all.
5. (coming soon) First class support for Makers to charge a price for their own Packs!
The platform is still in beta, so it does have some rough edges, and you'll run into the occasional bug. But it's the perfect time for forward thinking entrepreneurs to dive in and establish themselves on a brand new marketplace in its early days.
Super product. I find it to be highly fast, responsive and beautiful. I wish they could icrease the document limit for free users like notion made it unlimited .
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