2023 was a big year for Tape, both as a product and company.
We reached a huge milestone: thousands of new users have joined Tape. Throughout the year, we released our biggest updates yet and shipped plenty of new features and improvements. And the best part of 2023 - the community is growing like never before.
Let’s recap the year, focusing on some highlights.
Feature releases:
- Advanced import
- Member Management
- Group permissions
- Guest permissions
- Workspace access settings
- Workspace security
- Workspace permission
- App database permissions
- Record permissions
- Share to web
- Organization switcher
- Favorites
- Shared section
- Vertical app navigation
- Manual sorting of workspace in left sidebar
- Workspace icons
- App & record icons
- Search - just find your content faster
- Action · Send API request using OAuth 2.0 · Workflow Automation
- REST API with significant improvements — making Tape the hub for all your tools
Feature releases based on top-voted webinar polls:
- 🗓️ Oct. 12th Live Demo and Q&A webinar for advanced users - #6 by Leo
— 💙 Ability to shrink/resize pictures when uploaded to an Image Field
— 💙 Show [all comments] on external page?
— 💙 Make links that are composed in calculation fields clickable in the card in the board view - 🗓️ Nov. 30th Live Demo and Q&A webinar for advanced users - #5 by Leo
— 💙 Bulk Actions in Tables
— 💙 Live changes of other users or automations in views
— 💙 Edit comments
Some of this year’s improvements:
- 🆕 Date format DD/MM/YYYY
- 🆕 Remembering user activity filter preferences
- [UPDATE 🌟] Enhanced date filter · Workflow Automation
- [UPDATE 🌟] Record templates · default values for all fields
- [UPDATE 🌟] Search of database views
- [UPDATE 🌟] View 'split by' options
- [UPDATE 🌟] 'Quick Add' button moved in the sidebar
- 💙 Use template when creating new related item
- 💙 Save and Duplicate item
- 💙 Limit Email + Phone fields to one entry
- 💙 Add indication for Category fields (if its inline, dropdown or list), in the 'Customize fields' section of the app
- 💙 Create a link to jump inside the same record
- 💙 Automation list order
Community starts growing in 2023:
As we started with Tape, we aimed to create a future home for a strong community voice, that builds a sense of belonging and support for all of us.
That’s why the highlight for us this year has been the growth of Tape’s community, attracting the best app creators, workflow automation designers, calculation enthusiasts, and API developers around the world.
Support among its members
We would like to thank all our community supporters who answer questions from other users. This gives us extra time to develop new features for everyone.
Especially we want to mention: @1F2Ns, @Jason, @Luis, @andrew.cranston, @dirk_s, @CarsonRedCliffLabs, @jacquelynmay, @shir, @tomaz, @comfreakph, @joelhall, @Hans,
for their special support and help this year! But, of course, all others who participate, ask questions or report bugs help us enormously in making Tape better every day!
Next year, we will try to direct all incoming requests across our channels to the community. This will leverage collective knowledge for better answers and help grow Tape’s content library for all of us.
Content to engage with Tape
Thank you for sharing guides, best practices, and all the resources that help us learn from each other and get more out of Tape. This is just a selection of them; there are so many brilliant pieces of knowledge created this year:
- @Jason e.g. Using Apple shortcuts to add notes to Tape
- @1F2Ns e.g. Task App and Recurring Task App
- @CarsonRedCliffLabs e.g. 🟢 Zapier integration - #9 by CarsonRedCliffLabs
- @andrew.cranston e.g. Leveraging SQL
- @dirk_s e.g. Geschäftsanwendungen mit Low-Code (Mautic&Tape)
- @Luis e.g. How to connect Google Business account email to Tape "Send Email" action
- @joelhall e.g. Overview of Automation & Workflows in “Tape”
- @samikuivalainen e.g. Simple maintenance app to develop further
- @comfreakph e.g. The power of JSON to generate your dynamic data in calculation field
- @Hanniel_Camara e.g. Filter by relation or app using the tape API
Giving us superpowers
We’re very happy to be part of this ingenious community, learning daily how Tape can make life easier. Your support and motivating comments this year have been unforgettable, driving us to improve Tape every day. Thank you!
- Let's show the Tape team some love ❤️
- 🤝 Migration deal: enjoy 6 months (until September 30th) and 3 months (October 1st to November 30th) with no license billing & more benefits
Tape’s webinar series starts
After receiving some requests, we launched our first webinar for experts in September. This was followed by October and November sessions with @Ben & @Tim, who shared deep insights into Tape’s daily operations, our current developments, and topped it off with a Q&A session. Believing in the importance of interactions with Tape’s technical founders, we warmly invite you to our upcoming event 🗓️ Jan. 25th Live Demo and Q&A webinar for advanced users
Technology partner
Tape works best when it’s connected with the other tools that power your work. Tape technology partners help build those integrations – connecting workflows, driving productivity and delighting our joint users. We’re starting collaborations with our first technology partners, and this is only the beginning – there’s much more to come in 2024:
- smrtphone integration, see updates here: Any integrated voice calling platforms?
- Migration tool to bring data into Tape: Podio Migration support - #2 by jacquelynmay
- Some more services are in touch with us and using Tape’s API - let yourself be surprised!
What’s next
All our attention is focused on developing a new technology for Tape. Think of this technology as a canvas where you can add blocks. A single building block can be fields, embeds, images, etc. This innovation is key to making dashboards and webforms outstanding and will reinvent Tape’s record from scratch, packed with a fresh, user-focused design and a groundbreaking level of customization. We will also work hard to improve our mobile app in 2024.
Join the conversation about the topics here:
At the same time, will focus even more on Tape’s ecosystem and launch the Affiliate Partner Program first. Follow for updates here → Referral Link?
Last but absolutely not least: A big, warm THANK YOU!
We’re grateful to every single user and everyone who shares our story for helping to grow Tape’s remarkable community. Thank you for making everything so enjoyable with you.
We wish you a joyful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year 2024, filled with unexpected and surprising moments, good health, satisfaction, and joy for you and your family.
Your Tape-Team.
PS: Please note that our support response times may be slower than usual until January 2 - but we’ll be here for you