The Coda Guy

Its been 8 months in the making, but its finally ready. Learn @coda_hq in just 30 days - A ridiculously extensive and dare I say FUN newsletter 1. Introduction to Course and Coda 2. Workspace Setup 3. Tables vs. Views 4. Table View Types 5. Filtering Tables 101 6. Data Types 7. Naming Conventions 8. Formula Basics & Best Practices 9. Display Column 10. Buttons Intro 11. Automations 12. Webhook Automations 13. Charts in Coda 14. ForEach() formula 15. Buttons Deep Dive 16. Using Packs 17. Developing Packs 18. Doc Performance & Speed 19. Coda’s Limits 20. Data Privacy 21. Sharing Permissions 22. Cross-doc Quirks 23. Publishing Coda Docs 24. User() Formula 25. UI / UX Design and Tips 26. Table Rows in Modal View 27. The Master Table & Its Distinctives 28. Selling Docs & Templates 29. Bonus Tips #coda #nocode #buildinpublic #automation coda.io/form/30-Days-o…

@cjpedregal Public api access (previously gated to enterprise) was the single reason we didn’t pay for a plan. Will look again at a paid plan for my team when you launch!

There are some tweets out there saying that Granola is trying to lock down access to your data. Tldr; we are actually trying to become more open, not closed. We’re launching a public API next week to complement our MCP. Read on for context. A couple months ago, we noticed that some folks had reversed engineered our local cache so they could access their meeting data. Our cache was not built for this (it can change at any point), so we launched our MCP to serve this need. The MCP gives full access to your notes and transcripts (all time for paid users, time restricted for free users). MCP usage has exploded since launch, so we felt good about it. A week ago, we updated how we store data in our cache and broke the workarounds. This is on us. Stupidly, we thought we had solved these use cases well enough with our MCP. We’ve now learned that while MCPs are great for connecting to tools like Claude or chatGPT, they don’t meet your needs for agents running locally or for data export / pipeline work. So we’re going to fix this for you ASAP. First, we’ll launch a public API next week to make it easier for you to pull your data. Second, we’ll figure out how to make Granola work better for agents running locally. Whether that’s expanding our MCP, launching a CLI, a local API, etc. The industry is moving quickly here, so we’d appreciate your suggestions. We want Granola data to be accessible and useful wherever you need it. Stay tuned.

What’s the best AI tool for logo generation, branding, assets. I have zero design skill myself. None. Help

@temnco Yes haha. Just moved Simpladocs.com

Anyone else moving their Framer/Weblfow sites to custom + Claude Code?

@kevanmacgee @Lovable Does lovable not do well with security?

@thecodaguy @Lovable Loveable is so easy to to use. I like using it to just whack something together 75% of the way in no time and then do the fine tuning and security checks in another editor.

Honest question: Why use @Lovable if Claude Code exists?

@rohitdv8 @Lovable Why not Claude to prototype?

@thecodaguy @Lovable I use both. Lovable to prototype and Claude code to build.

@kelvinhtat @Lovable Lovable is crushing it though. People must be building

@thecodaguy @Lovable I can't remember the last time I heard people create something on lovable..

@mannyugarte @Lovable Because it’s better?

@thecodaguy @Lovable same reason people use Coda when Obsidian exists

@bestbubbledev AI will be drinking coffee by then. No coffee for us

@thecodaguy Who's gonna poor coffee in your cup when you go out for lunch? 🤔

AI is going to put everyone out of business. There will be no more businesses

Why pay $1,500 for email when you can use Gmail free? I used to scoff at paying for an email client on top of Gmail. But now I pay over $1,500 for @SuperhumanMail for my whole company. Here's why. I was walking through the airport this morning and noticed something: out of 15 people working on laptops, 14 were on email. For something we use that constantly, shouldn't we demand the best experience? And *GASP* some people were actually using Outlook of all things. I had the same realization with office chairs. I used to think paying for a nice one was absurd until I did the math. If I sit in a chair 8 hours a day, I spend more time with that Chair than I do my wife. That chair is going to directly impact my health. The cost-per-hour becomes negligible. Email is identical. Everyone hates it, but we all use it constantly. The difference between a mediocre email experience and a great one compounds over thousands of hours every year. Get the best 👏

One small thing I LOVE about @coda_hq is the ability to quickly grab any information across our company Whats our EIN? Oh, just search in Coda and it shows up WITH a blue "Copy to clipboard" button. Fantastic

Moving from Chat > Action is really an interesting space. Transparently Im really excited for GO In the past I've seen things like @coda_hq blending structured and unstructured data Now I imagine those same minds are blending Chat and Action. . .

Really been loving the updates to Claude. Small things make a huge difference like this. Clickable options inside an "email editor" interface. Moving from Chat > App Can we still call "chat" apps just Chat?

Why do dinosaurs and AI have so much common? I’m sure you all have noticed the similarities. Both are fantastic Both are otherworldly And my 8 year old son can’t stop talking to me about either of them. The correlation between dinosaurs and AI that has got me thinking today is mass extinction-level events. How likely is it that the AI will cause a similar type of mass extinction event amongst existing companies and organizations? Will many of the businesses and SaaS that we know today be gone in five years?

If you don't know what an MCP is and arent building Custom agents you're falling behind... But are you? The AI hype is exhausting "Replace your entire workforce!" "Build software with no code!" "AGI is 6 months away!" Meanwhile, there's low-hanging fruit everywhere and no one's picking it. Really, I see this daily with the companies we work with Here's what I mean: Most companies have teams spending hours each week doing the same research, answering the same questions, looking up the same information. Connect Claude to your company's data. Train your team for 30 minutes on how to use it. Watch what happens. That's it. No fancy agent. No complex tech stack. No replacing humans. Just smart configuration and proper change management. The ROI is sitting right there. It's not sexy. It's not going to make headlines. But your finance team will notice when they're getting answers in seconds instead of sending 12 Slack messages to find the right spreadsheet. AI doesn't need to be revolutionary to be valuable. Sometimes boring implementation beats exciting promises.

@WealthEmpireHQ Nothing else? What about time/investment/testing and banging the keyboard really hard when something doesn’t work

This is all you need to fully master Claude Code. Nothing else.

The hype over AI is ridiculous. ClawdBot? Agents? OpenClaw? Don’t get me wrong - these technologies are going to change everything about business and work as we know it And we leverage clawdBot, custom agents, and AI in almost every facet of our business. But you don’t need to be technical and you don’t need to be on the cutting edge of AI to have it provide a ridiculous amount of ROI to your team now. Tell me about your business and I’ll tell you one quick way you can implement AI easily this week 👇

Wait. What is @claudeai ?

Most teams aren’t getting leverage from AI. They’re just using it. There’s a difference. A lever gives you more output with less effort. That’s the whole point of the metaphor, at least that’s what I learned in 8th grade science with Mr Johnson But when I see how most companies deploy AI, people are just working differently. Not better. Not smarter. Just . . . different. They’re copy-pasting into ChatGPT instead of Google. Same amount of effort. Same level of chaos. Just a new tool in the mix. In working with over 200 companies, and many among theFortune 500, real leverage looks and can be as simple as: 👌🏼 Your team spends 30 minutes training on a properly configured system 👌🏼 That system connects to your actual company data 👌🏼 Now they get answers in 10 seconds instead of 10 emails That’s leverage. More output, less effort. The gap isn’t the technology. Claude exists. Your data exists. In a lot of ways I think the gap is change management. Even if you happen to have enough technical skills internally to set up these systems in a responsible and connected way, is your team actually using it? Is your team actually trained besides a 30-minute all-hands meeting? Most companies skip the boring stuff (configuration, training, rollout) and wonder why AI isn’t delivering ROI.