New Alpha Test Opportunity: Magic Pages

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We’re building something new and would like your help to shape it.

This is so early in beta that we don’t even have a name for it yet. We alternate between Magic Views, Magic Pages, Magic Mike, and a few other contenders, so consider this your hardhat tour.

Imagine building custom applications from your Coda data, without the constraints of traditional tables and views. Design interfaces that match your exact vision, control how interactions work, integrate AI where you need it, and deploy instantly to your team or clients.

This first wave is very small (less than 10 people), so we can learn what breaks, what delights, and what needs improvement. If you don’t get in this time, we hope you’ll join us for v2 of testing.

What we’re asking:
You’ll need bandwidth for weekly feedback sessions over 3-4 weeks, plus some additional feedback loops along the way (think quick surveys, written thoughts, maybe a form or two). We want to hear from you often while you’re building.

What we’re testing:

  • Build custom views using natural language — Describe what you want (a kanban board, custom dashboard, specialized form) and watch it generate. No formulas, no coding.

  • Create custom applications from your data — Build interactive interfaces that work exactly how you need, with full read/write access to your tables.

  • Iterate instantly with AI — Don’t like something? Describe the change and it updates immediately.

Why you:
You already push Coda to its limits. We want to see what you build when there are none, and learn from your experience before we open this up more widely.

Ready to grab a hardhat?
We’re looking for people who love to build, aren’t afraid of rough edges, and want to help shape something from the ground up. If that sounds like you, we’d love to have you.

Apply here

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SIGN ME UP :saluting_face: :sweat_smile: :rofl:

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Hola Ruggy,

Me encantaría formar parte de esta versión beta. Actualmente usamos Coda para el 90 % de los flujos de trabajo internos de nuestra empresa y también lo hemos implementado para más de 100 clientes de todos los tamaños y tipos. Lo que propones suena excelente.

Sin embargo, nos enfrentamos a un obstáculo importante: la barrera del idioma. Si bien podemos comunicarnos por escrito sin problemas, nos resultaría imposible participar en reuniones en línea en vivo.

Muchas gracias por la invitación. Espero poder ser de ayuda en el futuro.

Atentamente,

Ximo Escamilla
www.onnadigital.com

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Could you elaborate on what you mean by this? For example for forms, would you be able to show and hide fields based on logic while users are filling it out?

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That’s me, but my dance card is full this quarter. I will sit this one out to give someone a deeper focus on this obviously really cool feature.

This sounds pretty awesome. Lean into what Max always says about apps. This is Magic Apps.

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Count me in! I just completed the form. Thank you!

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This “beta” is about a possible interface/app builder that works with the underlying data you keep in Coda and should help us expose it in nicer ways than we can now with “published docs,” I think.

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This is definitely exciting! Count me in for v2 because next month is already supper packed!

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@Cristian_Nichifor may be onto something :slight_smile:

@Samuel_Langford to your question, I think you’ll be able to do pretty much anything you could imagine with forms logic.

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All I’ll say is that this project is starting to fulfill some of my wilder dreams when I joined Coda 9 years ago. Very excited for y’all to try it and help us shape it.

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Hi @Jeremy_Olson ,

Welcome to the community, lovely to see more Codans join and engage :heart:

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say what you’ve built is this:

The existing block editor that powers the canvas Is the new interface builder. Individual cells of a table row get broken into independent editor blocks that can be moved around and resized just like of rest of the canvas building blocks. Each building block now gets its own “Disable If” and “Hide If” formulas. Bonus points if we are so getting some container type blocks.

I too joined Coda almost 9 years ago, albeit as a mere user :sweat_smile:. This above is how I always thought app building should work in Coda. That we are stuck using the very clunky and limited layout editor for forms always struck me as a missed opportunity.

How far off the mark am I :slight_smile: ?

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Hey @Nad, thank you! You’ll be able to accomplish a similar result to what you are saying but the technique is a bit different. Bit more of a paradigm shift.

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I’m intrigued, and very much rooting for this project!

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Hi @Ruggy-Joesten,

Utility manager from a research university here. I would truly love to get pulled in to this beta. I have long been struggling to find the perfect solution for my industry’s needs, and I have used Coda off n on at a variety of companies. I am specifically not using it right now due to fail of failure, potential limitations around large datasets, limited visualization/charting, and for want of better customer-facing portals for my internal and external clients.

Form is filled out - again, would love to get involved here, prove the business/industry need, and prove the value of Coda.

Cheers!

Evan

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Hey Evan! Welcome! Really glad you found your way here.

The first cohort for the beta is intentionally small, but we’ll run additional waves soon, when we can open things up a bit more broadly.

If you haven’t already, I’d recommend dropping your info into the form here so we can keep you in the loop for this round or any upcoming ones.

Also appreciate you sharing the context around your use case. Large datasets, visualization, and customer-facing portals are exactly the kinds of workflows we’re hoping to learn more about through this beta.

Glad to have you in the community, and looking forward to hearing more about what you’re working on.

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Hi Ruggy, sorry for the delay in response and thank you for inviting me to this opportunity.

I was delayed because while I’d love to try out this new feature, my current schedule makes me concerned I won’t be able to test it sufficiently or provide enough feedback given our company’s current priorities.

So I must decline, but I wish you and your team luck on this feature and I am interested in trying similar new features in the future.

Best,
Edward

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Thank you, @Ruggy-Joesten ! Understood re: the first beta cohort.

I filled out the form earlier this AM, but let me know if I need to re-fill for any reason.

Look forward to (fingers crossed) collaborating on this use case in the near future!

Cheers,

E

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Kind of interested by what your testing here - because Replit/Loveable/Convex… these are direct competitors with Coda now- spreadsheets as competitor, no longer selling against. So like, what is a Doc in this picture? A dedicated EVM?? Because if so, we would need more resource management tooling for what you are testing - a ton of devil in the details right there - also version control, preferable git.

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Also whilst I have a bid of ‘whinge’ - why no Claude integration? Cause Claude CoWork has Cron jobs now and I would appreciate leveraging that like I’m doing with Google Workspace, AirTable.

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I LOVE to build - I’m the Director of IT at the Five College Consortium in Western MA, fivecolleges.edu - we are actively using lowcode no code tools - like Airtable and WeWeb.io/supabase - but we also use Coda - and would love to try this beta for some other use cases we have that we’re considering Quickbase for - can I get in no this? :folded_hands:

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