Hey @Bill_French, always glad to see you!
I have been writing free-flow for most of this, apologies as that hasn’t helped the focus of this convo no doubt. But I thought it would be worthwhile to clarify what I meant by starting this thread and talking about “everything” that you allude to here:
What I meant are the tools I’ve found that tend to share common info such as assignees, cross-team projects, company departments, and strategic planning.
It’s the group from the original list I posted:
I will add that re: Version Control tools (what I called “repo mgmt”), what I mean is you can integrate with your tool of choice. Some stuff I’ve looked at, like Teamwork Projects for example, has no integration whatsoever here - I don’t count Zapier when it comes to integrating with Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket.
And re: the final item: Chat - Coda is not a total replacement, but I believe it can accomplish much of what Slack provides to a team. I actually use a Slack alternative, Twist.
100% with you that we are not talking about accounting, invoicing, banking, analytics, and some other stuff that we don’t have even packs for right now.
Bottom line - if I could get all that in one tool, my team’s day-to-day life is tremendously improved. And there are other competitors out there attempting to try to solve, more or less, that list in one app. I would hesitantly put AirTable as one. But nothing I’ve seen yet can do it as well as Coda! And Coda is inherently modular, even within one doc. So I think you avoid much of the growth pains you talk about:
…if you try to use Coda alone for all this. You are building on a common platform. To illustrate the point, would you want to try to integrate all those apps effectively? And to keep it precise, by “effectively” let’s just define that as two-way sync of data across them all. In other words, you’re going to be working exclusively across API’s as few have native integrations with each other. With API’s doing the integration, you will have suspect visibility about the syncing amongst your rank-and-file users. If I hook up Wrike and Aha, I can’t see either of the other app’s info within the user interface, even though I can set up event handling so when you move a linked entity in Wrike, it will transition in Aha. This is the “nightmare” solution I keep referring to that plagues tons of teams right now.
In my mind Coda as a source-of-truth for this stuff wins vs. this “other” API option hands down…