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.
@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
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
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@leanzubrezki Thanks for all you've done to make this launch great (with FOUR packs!!) 🎊
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.
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.
Congrats on the launch @shishirmehrotra and team! 3.0 looks really cool! What was your journey like going from 1.0 to 3.0, any key lessons you learned along the way?
@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.
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!
@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
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