Build an AI Automation You Can Actually Trust: Free Workshop, Oct 20
Autumn with No-Code: NYC means AI Automations, Full-Stack Apps, and our community Show & Tell
October 2026 Edition
Hey NYC No-Coders! 👋
You spent the summer building. Inbox automations, lead routers, half-finished apps duct-taped together at midnight. The community has shared it all. This fall is about two things: leveling up how you build, and getting what you built in front of people who’ll appreciate how much work it took.
📋 In This Edition
🎯 Next Up: Build AI Automations You Can Rely On (Tue, Oct 20)
🤖 Coming Soon: Ship Yourself an Assistant with Base44 (Tue, Oct 27)
🥯 Save the Date: AI Builds Show & Tell (Sat, Nov 21)
🙏 Sponsor Love: Barndoor Automations, XRay.Tech, and Base44
🤝 Friends of the Community: Horizons NYC and All Day AI
🗓️ Next Up: Build AI Automations You Can Rely On
When: Tuesday, October 20, 6 to 8pm
Where: Nomadworks Times Square, 240 W 40th St, 2nd Floor
What to Expect: Plain English in, a working AI automation out, in about 10 minutes.
You’ve got a process you want AI to handle. So you write a long prompt, and it drifts. You try a skill file, and it’s hard to control. You open a drag-and-drop workflow tool, and it was never built for AI judgment in the first place. This session is about the version that actually holds up once your team depends on it.
What’s happening:
- Why prompts, skill files, and legacy workflow tools break down at the team level
- A live build with the Barndoor team, from a plain-English description to a working automation
- Hands-on build time with help in the room
- Show what you built, then network over food and drinks
Who should come: Ops leads, CS and rev ops folks, program managers, and anyone with a process they wish the whole team could hand off to AI. No technical background needed. Bring your laptop.
🎁 Bonus: Barndoor is giving every attendee 3 free months of the starter package, redeemable in the room.
Spots are limited and approval-based so we can keep the room hands-on.
🤖 Coming Soon: Ship Yourself an Assistant
When: Tuesday, October 27, 6pm
Where: Nomadworks Times Square, 240 W 40th St, 2nd Floor
Cost: Free
You’ve built landing pages. Pretty pages that forget you the second you close the tab. This one’s different. We’re kicking off a three-part series with Base44, and night one is about building a personal tool that remembers: a habit tracker, an expense logger, a research assistant. Your problem, your call. We’ll help you get it built.
What’s brewing:
- Live intro to Base44 and what sets it apart from landing-page tools
- Hands-on build time with a real database behind your app
- Group show-and-tell to see what everyone shipped
🥯 Save the Date: AI Builds Show & Tell + Morning Workshop
When: Saturday, November 21, 10am to 12pm
Where: Nomadworks Times Square (address on RSVP)
Cost: Free. Seriously.
This one’s for you. Bagels, a quick build-together session, and then we hand you the floor for an hour of demos, experiments, and works in progress. Polished or half-broken, we want to see it.
🙌 A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
Barndoor Automations: The Automation That Does the Same Thing Twice
Most AI automations ace the demo and then do something slightly different on Thursday. Barndoor builds from plain English and runs the same way every time, with guardrails on your data. Build it once and the whole team can use it. Try Barndoor → (3 months free if you come Oct 20)
XRay.Tech: For When the Duct Tape Runs Out
XRay is who we send people to when a workflow outgrows “I’ll figure it out.” They wire automation and AI through the tools you already use, no rip-and-replace. Meet XRay.Tech →
Base44: Past the Landing Page
Our go-to when someone says “I have an idea for a tool.” Describe it in plain English, get a real app with a database, logins, and logic, shareable by link. Build with Base44 →
🤝 Friends of the Community
All Day AI (Thu, Oct 22, online, free)
A full-day virtual conference with four tracks: Build, Lead, Secure, and Ship. The rule they run on: no vendor pitches, just practitioners talking about what shipped and what broke. Starts at 6am ET, so dip in when you can. There’s a hackathon too. Register →
BrainStation Horizons New York (Thu, Oct 29, 3 to 7pm, SoHo)
An afternoon summit on AI and digital innovation with speakers from Google, NVIDIA, BNY, Citi, Mastercard, and Morgan Stanley, plus a networking reception. Curated, senior-leader room with a ticket to match ($475), so best for anyone driving AI adoption inside a bigger org. Request Tickets →
Until Next Time...
October is for learning, November is for showing off. Come build something you’ll actually use, then bring it back on the 21st to show the room.
Stay connected:
- See all our events on Luma
- Join our LinkedIn group
- Got a build you want to demo on Nov 21? Hit reply and tell us about it
Keep building,
Erik
No-Code: NYC
Forward this newsletter to fellow builders! The summer was for building. Fall is for bragging.
This newsletter is made possible by our amazing sponsors, Barndoor Automations, XRay.Tech, and Base44. Thank you for supporting our community! 🙏