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Great Tool - geared for automation and scalability
What do you like best about the product?
It scales very well to an the whole organization
What do you dislike about the product?
some integrations are missing (datadog, parabol). Also it's not easy to onboard on API integrations for non engineers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alignement on company priorities accross the different Product and Eng teams
Huge fan!! Im running all my core information processes via Coda these days
What do you like best about the product?
Think of all the times excel was not good enough and a native app or website was an overkill. That's where it comes in perfectly! I can build what is effectivly a small web-app just using tables and simple javascript-like functions. In other words, it is super easy to start and implement a new idea/ information system to get it up and running,
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance at scale. It notably starts to struggle with large data sets and many calculations put in place.
We've had to kill Coda docs that contain multiple thousands of somwhat simple entries (10 columns, one of which an image. No advanced calculations or functions), because they started to crash on load.
End-users often complain about the UI/UX of the system when its presented as an app. On pop-ups they ask where is save & close or go-back buttons and while there are workarounds for that they are all a bit ackward.
But people tend to forget that what they are looking at is a database table, for which the UI is absolutly amazing. Unfortunately that is not how people think, they expect an amazing and inuitive UI when I give them modular pop-up views to work with.
We've had to kill Coda docs that contain multiple thousands of somwhat simple entries (10 columns, one of which an image. No advanced calculations or functions), because they started to crash on load.
End-users often complain about the UI/UX of the system when its presented as an app. On pop-ups they ask where is save & close or go-back buttons and while there are workarounds for that they are all a bit ackward.
But people tend to forget that what they are looking at is a database table, for which the UI is absolutly amazing. Unfortunately that is not how people think, they expect an amazing and inuitive UI when I give them modular pop-up views to work with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Create transparency and commitment. Able to faciliate and lock in decisions, because they can be easily recorded with a button-press sign-off, reorded in a sub-table.
So it helps to organize and structure the most important busines topics like Goals, OKRs, Programs, Portfolio.
So it helps to organize and structure the most important busines topics like Goals, OKRs, Programs, Portfolio.
Amazing in general, nevertheless unintuitive with some basic features
What do you like best about the product?
I love the balance of easiness and complexity for implementing great pages that can suit any need we have had so far. It has great connectors like Google Maps help to create complex things very easily.
Customizations are easy to use with the formulas and allow to add a granular level of user experience that makes it feel very friendly for our everyday use.
Customizations are easy to use with the formulas and allow to add a granular level of user experience that makes it feel very friendly for our everyday use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some basic features feels unintuitive, for example the tables are pretty confusing, I had to check a lot of Coda tips videos to understand how to use it at the level desired, so it was hard to integrate in some documents I created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allow us to have a single document that suits all neeeds for the different teams when working on huge global projects that require a huge level of documentation and collaboration. It really help us to integrate all of it an a single endpoint.
Great multi-purpose tool!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Coda is like LEGO. I can do most anything I want with it through a combination of formulas, relational databases, custom packs, and automations. The Coda support team is amazing and super helpful!
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some limitations in moving between rows from different tables not allowing you to go back to the previous row. Other than that, most inconveniences are minor or features that don't exist yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the issue of stale data and the spread of information.
Automate anything, keep your teams in sync
What do you like best about the product?
As a Product Manager, Coda is my most valuable daily-use internal tool. Think of it as a combination of a Google Doc, Excel Spreadsheet, Airtable, Asana, and Zapier that helps you nail collaboration and communication - especially if you are a distributed team. Some critical use cases we've used Coda for: portfolio management and project progress visibility for the entire company, design system documentation and requests for changes/bug reporting, team project management and roadmap planning, team standup/meeting facilitation and note taking. Because of the flexibility of Coda and the sheer number of "Packs" (read: integrations) with 3rd party tools, your team is limited only by your imagination. With all that power, you'd think implementation would be a beast, but it isn't! Even complex features like custom formulas are made brutally easy to configure, thanks partly to the excellent community forums and verbose documentation.
Given its simplicity and power, I would not be surprised if founders build entire products using Coda; it's just that flexible of a platform. And if you get stuck, their support team is ready and willing to share TONS of examples of how other product teams use Coda to solve your problems.
Given its simplicity and power, I would not be surprised if founders build entire products using Coda; it's just that flexible of a platform. And if you get stuck, their support team is ready and willing to share TONS of examples of how other product teams use Coda to solve your problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation, in general, is a tough business problem because it's only as good as the time you spend to create it and maintain it. While Coda can remove the walls between tools to truly centralize knowledge and prevent your team from recreating information to live in a different location, Coda's value to your org will depend heavily on whether your team leans into exploiting that capability. Since there are so many ways to approach solving a specific problem (like portfolio/project roadmap management) within Coda, it can be overwhelming to understand the "correct" way to do something.
Performance can also be a concern. As you continue to leverage more and more packs, integrations, two-way sync tables, and more, you'll find the experience to be a bit slower and a bit more error-prone. In fact, our team can't use Coda on our mobile devices because of our doc size and complexity. That said, if you are encountering these issues, your adoption is so significant that you are easily achieving a substantial ROI, which could be more good than bad.
Performance can also be a concern. As you continue to leverage more and more packs, integrations, two-way sync tables, and more, you'll find the experience to be a bit slower and a bit more error-prone. In fact, our team can't use Coda on our mobile devices because of our doc size and complexity. That said, if you are encountering these issues, your adoption is so significant that you are easily achieving a substantial ROI, which could be more good than bad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coda is our one-stop shop tool for solving collaboration and coordination problems as an org. Today we use Coda for a wide variety of use cases, such as:
- Portfolio Management
- Company roadmap visibility
- Design System Documentation
- Team Ritauls and Meeting Notes
- Request and Bug Reporting
- Communication automation
- Knowledge management
- Portfolio Management
- Company roadmap visibility
- Design System Documentation
- Team Ritauls and Meeting Notes
- Request and Bug Reporting
- Communication automation
- Knowledge management
Excel-like tool for streamlining complex workflows
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility to implement any set up that is required
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity of the tool, Coda is not the most intuitive system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coda is solving the problem of having my documentation and task tracking in different tools.
Better docs
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to make dynamic docs today change based on date.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacks some diagrams like funnel which can be used to provide better information
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am about to build docs with more enhanced features like cover page. It makes my docs look more interactive
Great all in one management app
What do you like best about the product?
I like the flexibility of Coda and how you can create docs and pages to show essentially anything you want. Great for large teams who need to show a lot of different information
What do you dislike about the product?
Extremely powerful but unless you have someone who is familar with coding it can be tricky to set up formulas and automations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we needed a whole knowledge management software to help organize our information best
Switched To Coda from Confluenct
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use, much more fun. Easy import from Confluence
What do you dislike about the product?
Tables editing is not so great, had times I needed to destroy the table in order to be able to delete it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A place to communicate with easy edit and referencing for knowledge sharing with technical and non-technical teams
Product Manager all-in-one tool
What do you like best about the product?
Coda is my source of truth for anything related to the product. I will mention below the exact topics:
1. High-Level OKRs table - everyone can easily write an update and has their own view for tracking progress
2. Initiatives roadmap - contains all the low-level tasks with assigned responsible people
3. Customer interviews database - contains a list of interviewed clients with their notes and the status of the interview
4. Product Requirements Documents - all the templates are stored in Coda and reuse for new tasks
5. Product Documentation - all the product description is stored in Coda
1. High-Level OKRs table - everyone can easily write an update and has their own view for tracking progress
2. Initiatives roadmap - contains all the low-level tasks with assigned responsible people
3. Customer interviews database - contains a list of interviewed clients with their notes and the status of the interview
4. Product Requirements Documents - all the templates are stored in Coda and reuse for new tasks
5. Product Documentation - all the product description is stored in Coda
What do you dislike about the product?
Since Coda is a powerful tool with a lot of customization some colleagues refuse to adopt it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coda helps me keep all the information in one place. Moreover, it allows for cascading high-level strategy initiatives into low-level roadmaps & tasks that are easy to track.
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