Ben Stocks

There is no real competition for this. Everything else promising in the space either falls short for dev experience or gets acquired by a bigger fish and disappears (see the sad story of Visly)

Best in class systems modeling tool. I've been using it for over a year and it has transformed the way I brainstorm, plan, document, and communicate complex ideas and processes. I no longer need to bend my mind to fit the parameters of my visualization software, thanks to a brilliant core design philosophy that underpins every feature decision.

Coda is the clearest vision of the future of business operations. What I thought would be “just a fun test” became a critical tool in record time. There was no migration, I simply started using it to solve one off problems quickly...and now it runs everything. This product outshines many other tools with similar goals (Podio, Airtable, Smartsheet, Notion, etc). I have tried nearly all of...