Hey @GJ_Roelofs, very cool to have you chime in here. I was in fact thinking earlier of including one of your quotes in this post, which I think is one of the best summaries I’ve ever seen of the appeal of Coda, here it is:
So I’m glad to see you appear on your own!
It seems there is a big task ahead of Coda to lick these performance issues. From my experience though, these are can be less challenging than fundamental design and architecture of a team management app that can potentially solve the problem I feel has become huge - proliferation of apps to manage a business. Hundreds of apps out there are trying to solve this, I think none is as close as Coda.
I think most agree that Notion is not that app.
Airtable is very thin on team-friendly elements. For example, there is no “Rich Text” field type, let alone one you can pop out and write into like a doc. I consider Airtable a modern database, but Coda offers so much more to create a complete solution.
Zenkit is way too inflexible.
Trying to mold the likes of Jira, Wrike, Asana, Clickup, etc. to meet varying needs of teams is extremely painful.
And I would not allow “low code” solutions like Quickbase or Appian into this comparison.
In other words, is there anything else out there that is leading the way towards solving this problem better than Coda? In my extensive research, the answer today is “no.”
@Bill_French, I guess this is what I am “drunk” on with Coda!
Every time I give up with Coda, and there have been many, I try another solution, as I am desperate to solve this problem. And when I get to another solution, I invariably find myself saying “oh wait, I could accomplish this thing I can’t do here with Coda!” and come right back here.