I've tried Coda a couple times, but have always ended up at the same roadblock encountered with Airtable / Smartsheet / etc. - any "power user" type integrations require learning entirely new workflows that don't translate to any other system. Put another way, these systems should obviate the need for dedicated "Rev Ops" headcount, but the narrow scope of applicability of Coda knowledge (traditional stack knowledge translates poorly into Coda; Coda knowledge translates poorly into any other system) has always meant it's felt like more work than upside, at least in my use cases.
The other two are new. Patera is gorgeous, and the very definition of elegant, based on what I can see. I could easily see myself running proposal documents through something like this to make them much more scalable.
Grid is even more interesting, though I'll have to dig in. A huge crop of dynamic forecasting tools (effectively masks over spreadsheet backends) seem to have sprung up in the past 18mo - I'm most familiar with Causal, but this goes a meaningful step further. Will be digging into it this week.
While this seems like a relevant thread, I’ll drop in our app too. Our approach is wide enough that “reactive rich text” like Patera is a subset of our functionality. See our Twitter feed for recent examples: https://twitter.com/InflexHQ
Our documentation and discoverability is currently zero, and the rich text feature is in development, but another space to watch if you’re into this kind of thing.
I also added a bibliography page, so you can see other apps in this space: https://inflex.io/blog/bibliography (“Vaguely similar market products”)
- https://coda.io/
- https://patera.io/
- https://grid.is/