🗽Ship Your First Build of 2026 (This Thursday)
Late January 2026 Edition
Hey NYC No-Coders! ⚡
This Thursday we're shipping. Base44's offices, 6-8pm, and you're building the tool you need to actually crush your 2026 goals. But first, we need your help shaping the future of this community. Survey below. Less than 1o minutes. Your answers will build our 2026 calendar.
📋 In This Edition
🚀 This Thursday: Ship It in a Night with Base44 - Jan 29th
📊 We Need You: Community Survey (under 10 minutes, shapes everything)
🙏 Sponsor Love: Make + XRay.Tech
🔮 What's Next: February = Agents, March = Show & Tell
🚀 This Thursday: Ship Your First Build of '26
When: Thursday, January 29th, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Base44/Wix Office, 100 Gansevoort St, Manhattan
The Mission: Build and ship a working app before 8pm
Got goals for 2026? Build the tool you need to achieve them. Habit tracker, project planner, content calendar, workout log, or that MVP you've been putting off—you pick the goal, we'll help you ship the tool.
What's happening:
- Hands-on building with Base44's no-code platform
- The Base44 team on-site to help you troubleshoot and ship
- A room full of builders all focused on shipping together
- A working tool you can start using Friday morning
Try the platform before you come: We built our event page using Base44—give it a test drive and RSVP here: https://base-build-night.base44.app/
Or RSVP the usual way: Luma link
What to bring:
- Your laptop
- A clear goal you want to tackle in 2026
- Ideas for what would help you stay accountable
No fluff. No endless tutorials. Just focused building and shipping something real.
See you Thursday!
📊 Help Us Build the Best 2026 Possible
We want to make this year incredible for you, so let us know what you actually want.
Take a few minutes to fill out our community survey. Tell us what topics excite you, what formats work best, what speakers you want to hear from, and how we can serve you better in 2026.
Every answer directly shapes our calendar. The workshops we run. The speakers we invite. The tools we explore together.
Your voice matters. Make it heard.
🙌 A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
The events that help you ship, from hands-on building nights to deep-dive workshops, exist because of partners who believe in this community.
Make.com - Where Automation Happens
Thursday night at Base44, someone's going to build something amazing. There's a good chance they'll want to connect it to Make. Why? Because Make is the automation layer that makes everything else work harder.
Every tool you build becomes 10x more powerful when it can talk to the rest of your stack. Make is how you connect your new Base44 app to Slack, to your CRM, to your email, to whatever system actually needs the data. It's the bridge that turns isolated tools into integrated workflows.
Visual, powerful, and built for exactly this kind of problem. Whether you're automating your first workflow or orchestrating complex multi-step processes, Make gives you the power to ship fast.
XRay.Tech - The Automation Experts
When you need more than a platform, when you need strategy, expertise, and someone who's solved this problem before, that's XRay. They're the team that helps you think through the hard stuff, guides you past the gotchas, and makes sure you're building the right thing the right way.
As we dive deeper into automation and AI agents this year (February's going to be big), having partners like XRay who understand this space at every level makes the difference between shipping fast and spinning your wheels.
🔮 What's Coming: February & March
February: It's All About Agents
AI Agents are everywhere right now, but most people are still figuring out when to use them and how to build them right. February, we're going deep. Workshops, builds, and practical implementations. Get ready.
March: Show & Tell Season
March is for showing off what you've built. Whether it's that side project you've been grinding on, the automation that saved your team 10 hours a week, or the MVP you finally shipped, we want to see it.
Start getting your projects ready. More details coming soon, but if you've built something worth sharing, March is your moment.
Until Next Time...
Thursday night: Ship your first build of 2026. Then help us plan the rest of the year by filling out the survey. February's agent workshops are right around the corner, and March is when you get to show the community what you've been building.
Let's make 2026 the year you shipped more than you ever thought possible.
Stay connected:
- See all our events on Luma
- Join our LinkedIn group
- Fill out the community survey to shape our 2026 calendar
Keep building,
ERIK & AL
The No-Code: NYC Team
Forward this newsletter to fellow builders! And seriously, fill out that survey—it takes 2 minutes and shapes everything we do.
This newsletter is made possible by our amazing sponsors, Make.com and XRay.Tech. Thank you for supporting our community! 🙏