?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 ;)
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.
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Congrats guys! can this also be used as a project management tool?
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