Hi Coda Community
I’m Lane, and I lead product here at Coda. You haven’t heard from us in a while, and I know silence can feel uncertain.
Over the last few months, we’ve been deep in the work of bringing the teams together. That work is going very well and will be ongoing. In the meantime, I wanted to respond to the feedback directly with a look at some of what we have planned. What I’ll talk about below is not comprehensive, but it’s what we’re able to talk about at this moment.
It’s also worth saying one thing up front since we’ve heard concerns about resourcing. The teams working on Coda today are now larger than they were pre-merger. That’s great news for customers! As someone who is very invested in this product, I’m also excited to share that Grammarly has closed $1 billion in financing to deepen our product investments. We’ve added more Engineers lately and many of them are getting up to speed fast and writing code to accelerate delivery of our roadmap. For those of you who are engineers, you know that an upfront investment in hiring and ramping new engineers comes with a velocity cost at first, and then an acceleration.
Onto our plans. The acquisition gave us a really unique moment to reflect and rethink the core parts of Coda. Not just small tweaks and improvements, but also bigger changes that respond directly to some of the larger and more difficult feedback from the community and our customers. We previewed some of those changes in the webinar at the beginning of the year and have been deep in design, implementation and iteration.
I asked a few PMs and Engineers to jump in and share a bit more on this thread, but here’s a preview of *some updates we are working on in the next 6 months:
- Significant upgrades to the table experience, starting with Table Locking (in Beta now!)
- A refreshed UI that makes docs feel faster, cleaner, and more powerful to use every day
- A new dedicated data layer that gives makers more control and protects important data from accidental edits by collaborators (sets us up to do things like hide data from search, which we’ve heard the community loud and clear on)
- Performance improvements that make Coda faster and scalable - big docs that will load quicker, use less memory, and support databases with millions of rows
- A self-serve version of Coda Brain
Our ambition is for Coda to be the best AI-native work surface for teams and agents to collaborate and get work done. We’re investing more deeply in the platform than ever before, not just building new features but strengthening the core experience so we can grow with you for the long haul!
I’ll let some of our PMs and Engineers chime in with more.
Thank you for all your feedback and support of Coda, including the constructive parts, it means a lot to the team!