Coda Packs - Connect your doc to the apps you use everyday.

Hey Product Hunt - Very excited for this launch. Coda has an ambitious plan to rethink the fundamentals of documents — as Shishir likes to say, "making docs as powerful as apps". A few weeks ago, Shishir came by the Figma office to preview Coda Packs and the Figma team was blown away. The number of things you can do with Coda Packs is truly awesome, and what makes me even more excited about this release is that it's the first time we've seen a bunch of the Coda building blocks start to connect into a single, powerful platform. I was super impressed with how this release lets you connect all sorts of things to Coda via the web, including sending text messages via Twilio, automating Github PRs and creating conditional formatting based on live weather forecasts. Selfishly, I'm especially excited for everyone to try the Figma pack. Figma URLs are pasted into docs all the time, and Coda has done a really nice job of building on top of our API here to help designers work more collaboratively with other members of their team. We have a bunch of shared customers with Coda who I think will find this really useful! One of our goals at Figma is to be good "web citizens" — this is why we've worked hard to open up our platform with Web APIs that let you get your data out of Figma. When you expose your platform this way, you leave yourselves open to being pleasantly surprised by what others create. Looking forward to seeing what people make with Coda Packs!

I've been following Coda for a while now–I'm a big fan of what they're doing. It's an incredibly powerful and useful product. We recently started using it heavily at Intercom across R&D for roadmap planning and tracking. Naturally, it's spreading into other parts of the business, like marketing, who are using it for launch planning. And it's spreading because it's a better fit than the mix of tools these teams were using in the past. Packs is a smart move for Coda. It's an acknowledgment that teams, particularly cross-functional teams, still need to use other tools to get work done and deliver projects. With Packs you connect all the tools you need to Coda, without investing any developer resources, to streamline workflows between them. I'm excited to see the teams at Intercom to get stuck into Packs because they'll save us a ton of time and streamline work across the company. I'm particularly excited for the new Intercom Pack. 😃

Thanks for the hunt, @zoink! Incredibly excited to see what everyone does with Packs! We like to say that Coda is as much a doc as it is a set of building blocks. Until now, those building blocks really only fit within Coda. Today, they can fit with all the other building blocks that comprise your team's stack. A table in Coda can now pull in your GitHub notifications. A button can push updates to your Slack channel or send an email to your team. You can even connect to the weather with a simple formula. The building blocks principle guides almost every product decision. Before we put any feature into Coda we vet it exhaustively: Does this feel atomic? Can it be applied in simple use cases and also complex ones? By approaching external data in a modular way, you're able to really build and customize your own integrations. So your team can continue to work in their own preferred way, with more fluidity and less copy/pasting. You can read more on our blog here: https://blog.coda.io/connecting-... Can't wait to see how this feature will transform not just your Coda docs but the way you work.

We've been using Coda on our team for roadmap planning and okr's. Using Coda we've eliminated a ton of docware (spreadsheets, presos, shared calendars, etc) in our process, but still have to copy data to/from a bunch of other sources. I'm excited to try out Packs to use Coda as a true "control center" and eliminate those manual processes as well!

I'm a big fan of Coda already and have started using it for all my docs including launch planning and goals tracking. Every time I use it, I discover something new that makes my doc even more powerful. Now, the ability to connect with other tools adds another layer of power that's going to make it easy to do even more with Coda and build really powerful apps. So cool 🙌 Thanks to the Coda team for integrating with Intercom, so excited to see how people connect and use the two together!

We've been using Coda for the past 6 months to run our company; everything from documenting customer feedback, to managing OKRs, to building business intelligence dashboards to track customer MRR. Because the data is all connected through tables, it radically reduces the amount of duplicate data entry and manual effort to keep things organized. With Packs we'll be able to integrate data directly from applications we use, like bringing our Hubspot CRM customer data into tables automatically, or tying customer feedback from Intercom directly into our product roadmap. Really excited about what the Coda team is building and would highly recommend that you give it a run.

Congrats, Shishir & team on this launch! Packs was the feature that really helped me understand the true ambition of Coda's vision. Until this point, Coda always felt like an awesome and powerful doc with incredible database/table/view capabilities. Now, with Packs, the Coda has transformed from a canvas for building powerful docs to one for building powerful apps. Apps that can run entire businesses; apps that let you do almost everything from within Coda. My personal favorite is the Figma Pack. It's a simple integration, but it makes so much sense. Seeing the relevant—and up-to-date—mock inline is going to save our designers, engineers, and PMs so much time: no more traversing massive Figma canvases to find the relevant mock in question; no more exporting and copy-pasting mocks into decks that quickly get outdated. Coda has already gone viral here at Uber, but this is going to take things to the next level. I can't wait to see how this product evolves!

Massive congrats. Exciting release.

This is great! Before, I used Coda to template a weekly report to my manager but with Packs, I can just automate the email entirely! 🎉🎉🎉

Super excited for this launch. I've been following Coda since the early days and am really excited to see the vision come to fruition. Coda is just as useful for personal docs and tracking as much it is for work. I've used it for various things at home, including creating fun systems for my kids. I'm pumped about the addition of packs - it gives me the power to do things via other apps that I use in my daily life and even more excited about what we can build by connecting even more great services together.

Great progress from the Coda team! A thoughtful integration platform is a great strategic move and I recognized a lot of our favorite companies in the Packs list :)

In addition to using Coda for roadmap planning at Intercom (see Matt's comment above) we're also using it to track partnerships (like a lightweight CRM)! It's been such a big help and packs cover that last mile between your Coda docs and other systems you use without having to resort to coding against APIs. The Intercom pack in specific has allowed us to track progress of our partners and then seamlessly connect with partners via Intercom in-app messages. 😍 Congrats to the team on a fantastic launch!

This is a fantastic addition to Coda, check it out if you haven't already. Being able to centralise and sync data and not end up in a copy/paste nightmare is really useful, speeds up workflows, and places Coda at the centre for a lot of processes.

Love what Coda is doing. Very exciting news!

Congrats to the team on launching an extremely powerful tool! Packs could become the single biggest reason to use Coda. It essentially "normalizes" information across a variety of data source on the Internet, giving you the ability to do truly unique things in Coda docs that aren't just possible with basic tools.

Coda is already one of my favorite tools that enables creation of powerful app-like experiences with the familiar and simple paradigm of docs and tables.

With Packs, Coda gets supercharged by easily connecting with popular external services such as Slack, Github and Intercom. This opens up brand new use cases to create simple workflow and project management tools to better aligns teams, provide more transparency, and more easily get shi--things done. Check out the examples--you'll be impressed.

Pros:

- Extends the power of Coda w integrations to popular external services

- Elegantly designed integrations makes adding new services simple

Cons:

More packs please!

what's awesome to see is that the future of productivity tools isn't selecting a single silo'ed product but using Coda as your hub

Whoa, this looks great!

Ever find yourself opening up a hundred tabs, copying and pasting the exact right information or paragraph between tabs into your spreadsheet and then realize you got the wrong paragraph and now you need to rework the whole table?

Packs are an incredibly powerful tool, where Coda did the heavy lifting for you. Packs essentially "normalize" data from the internet and turn it into something useful that you can do something with.

One simple example.. I spent weeks building a dashboard in Google Sheets of data pulled for multiple public stocks that were relevant to our company.

With Coda Packs, I built the basics of what I had created in less than 10 minutes.

Imagine being able to do this for every type of data that you interact with. It's an extremely powerful way to create the "tools" you need to make decisions particularly when the apps you use don't quite give you the report you exactly need or when you need to combine data from multiple different apps.

Pros:

- put an end to a million tabs

- normalize data over the web

Cons:

- need more documentation on Pack APIs!

- need more Packs!

I've been waiting for Coda Packs for a long time. Thank you for making this happen! Benefits: We can start using Coda to build our own mini-applications that interact with the outside world without developing a single line of code. What I am missing: These packs: Webhooks, Webhooks, Webhooks, Stripe, Hubspot, Google Sheets.