Coda Community Update 👇

[Emma_Wyatt]

Hi everyone!

I’m excited to share a quick update on what’s ahead for the Coda community, and to introduce a new face who’ll be spending a lot more time here with you.

First, what’s coming soon: we’ll roll out new opportunities for community members to participate in virtual events and conversations that inform upcoming product decisions. These sessions are designed for you to share feedback, exchange ideas with the team, and discuss what’s resonating (and what’s not).

To kick this off, our first two virtual product conversations will take place on February 10 and February 12. We’ll share registration details and agendas shortly.

In the meantime, I’m thrilled to introduce @Ruggy_Joesten1, who’s joining us as our new Community Manager.

Ruggy brings more than 16 years of experience building high-trust, highly engaged communities across tech, creators, and live experiences. His work has consistently focused on creating spaces where people feel heard, supported, and empowered to contribute—especially in communities with passionate, thoughtful, and technically curious members (which should sound familiar).

At Coda, Ruggy will be focused on:

• Strengthening the health and culture of this forum

• Creating more meaningful ways for you to connect with each other and the Coda team

• Making sure community feedback doesn’t disappear into a void, but is responsibly summarized and shared with decision-makers

On a more personal note, Ruggy is based in New York City, is currently the #13-ranked shuffleboard player in the world (yes, really), and recently welcomed a Cavapoo puppy named Biscuit into his life—who you may hear about from time to time.

Most importantly, Ruggy believes deeply in building with communities, not just for them. You’ll see him jump into conversations, listen closely, and help turn great ideas into momentum.

Please join me in giving Ruggy a warm welcome, and if you’re interested in attending our first two sessions, you can sign up to attend at the links below:

• Feb 10 - AI Writing and Docs

• Feb 12 - Superhuman Community Update

Note: Space is limited for both events. These are small-group virtual sessions, and attendees will be selected via lottery. All confirmed guests will receive a confirmation by Monday, Feb 3.

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

Thanks for the great intro, @Emma_Wyatt

Hey everyone!

I’m Ruggy, and I’m really excited to be here.

I’ve been spending time reading through the forum, and I truly appreciate how much care you put into how you use Coda and how each of you helps others get the best possible experience with the product. In that same spirit, I’m eager to support you in ways that feel genuinely helpful and help you make the most of your experience with us.

Here’s a quick overview of how I plan to support you and meet your needs: I’ll listen carefully, recognize patterns, and ensure your feedback isn’t overlooked. I can’t promise every suggestion will become a feature, but I do promise to take your input seriously and help connect your feedback with the right decision-makers.

I’m especially looking forward to connecting during the virtual product conversations on February 10 and February 12, and to learning how you use Coda every day — what’s working, what feels awkward, and what you wish was easier.

Beyond Coda and the product, I’d love to get to know you on a personal level. Tell me who you’re rooting for in the Super Bowl (or if football isn’t your thing at all), your thoughts on Heated Rivalry, how much money you’d need offered to climb up a skyscraper live on Netflix, or where you’re hoping to go once spring or summer rolls around. All of that info matters to me, too.

I’ll be here quite a bit, reading threads, jumping into conversations, and asking questions. Feel free to say hi here, tag me, or point me to anything you think I should check out early.

Happy to be here with you.
— Ruggy (and Biscuit)

[Piet_Strydom]

Hi Ruggy,

Welcome to the Community!

I look forward to working together.

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

Thanks for the lovely welcome @Piet_Strydom! Can’t wait to get to know you a bit more

[Stefan_Stoyanov]

Welcome to the community, @Ruggy_Joesten1

[Stefan_Stoyanov]

Thanks @Emma_Wyatt

Will the sessions be recorded? They are a bit late for EU

[Thomas_Schulz1]

Welcome Ruggy, looking forward working with you and Biscuit.

[Astha_Parmar]

Welcome to the community!!

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

Thanks, @Stefan_Stoyanov! It’s great to be here.

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

@Thomas_Schulz1 Biscuit definitely does most of the heavy lifting, I’m just her support.

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

Thank you, @Astha_Parmar! It’s great to meet you.

[Agile_Dynamics]

Welcome to the team @Ruggy_Joesten1

This Coda Makers Forum is very unique in my experience.
I have been involved in open source projects for decades and have been involved with a great many forums of different types during that time.

This forum is populated by helpful, humble, intelligent, enthusiastic, and very supportive Coda experts, learners, and newbies.

Its atmosphere and esprit de corps are exemplary.

It is unfortunate that participation by Codans has trailed off over the years. There was a time when @Shishir_Mehrotra himself posted examples of his work and answered questions.

(Chapeau to @Eric_Koleda for his untiring, enthusiastic support down the years.)

Coda is very much a besieged minority platform in the world of no-code products, but it is unquestionably the best. The forum members here are very much on a mission to promote Coda and support users in every way possible.

I am delighted you have taken on Biscuit. She will be a great teacher and mentor for your soul. I have a vague distrust of people who are not doggie-oriented. I have a pack of rescues in residence myself and feel the human/canine symbiosis is primordial and essential.

I recently sold my business and moved to a tiny tropical island to retire. It was a disaster. I vegetated into a beach-bum/lounger-potato. I discovered Coda, Zooms, and Looms, and was reborn. Clients, deadlines, and Jira tickets have rejuvenated my braincells.

I will do the skyscraper climb for free - just to gain the street cred - but it must be on YouTube and not Netflix, ok?

In the summer, it gets too hot here in the Aegean Sea, so I sail to the mainland and go camper-vanning through the Baltics up to Denmark (takes about 2 months), where I help run a series of Viking Reenactment events (working remotely along the way). By the time I get back to Gavdos, the weather is back to the mid twenties (Celsius, don’t understand Fartingheights)

When I am not working on Coda workflows for my clients, I am eating and sleeping. I never understood this “work/life balance” malarkey. If you love your work, then life is one long vacation.

My most recent cerebral adventures are in the world of Coda-based Agentic Workflows. And I am now on a mission to convince middle-aged, middle-tier managers that their skills in business processes, spreadsheets, and knowledge management are essential in the post-AI-tsunami age.
And, of course, Coda/Superhuman Go is the linchpin of that mission.

You are joining an amazing forum here at an exciting time. Your role positions you to have a super-sized influence on how this adventure unfolds. I expect great things of you and stand ready to provide all the moral and technical support I can muster.

So hop in, strap down, tighten your core, and brace yourself for a hell of a ride.

Welcome
➤𝖒𝖆𝖝

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

I love all of this and have a few follow-up questions:

1. YouTube is A-OK for me, but I must know if you have any significant climbing experience to speak of. Watching that dude boulder over those dragons was absolutely insane, so I hope this won’t be your first rodeo.
2. I need to know more about your camper van! My cousin has one of those Sprinter vans that you can live out of pretty comfortably, so would love to know what you went with. I’m pretty sure Dodge Ram has a version that a lot of people lean into.
3. Let me know where your tropical island is, because it’s currently 7-degrees in New York, and I am going to start searching Google Flights for the first opportunity to crash on your couch

[Agile_Dynamics]

Ok, here goes…

1. The whole point of the YouTube series is that I have not done any rock-climbing since I was a teenager. So it will be all about my training and inventing clever gadgets to help me acheive this. There is zero risk, because our sponsors will engage the best movie stunt experts to oversee the whole shoot.

2. When I sold my company I went a bit bonkers. So the motor-home I got was way too big (8 meters) for Europe. I got stuck in lots of tiny rural villages in very exotic places. So now I have smaller one that fits through Italy and the Alps, but has an inflatable side-tent for Viking feasts. A Fiat Ducato 350 chasis with custom habitat. Snug.

3. The tiny island is Gavdos. It is too small for an airport. We have a gravel landing strip and a small harbor. I suggest you fly to the Sitia military air-base on Crete, then get an overnight ferry to the island. What to wear: shorts & flip-flops all year round. What to pack: nothing, everything you need is here. Snorkle and spear-gun provided.

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

Viking feasts and shorts/flip flops is exacty what I need right about now!

[Samuel_Langford]

It is a huge disappointment that the first two virtual events are about AI, and one isn’t even about Coda as a product.

[Daniel_Velho2]

Welcome in, @Ruggy_Joesten1 !
We’ve been needing your help for a long time

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

We have a series of round tables coming up about future releases, these are just the first two in line.

[Ruggy_Joesten1]

Thanks, @Daniel_Velho2! Lovely to meet ya.

[Bill_French]

@Agile_Dynamics

the human/canine symbiosis is primordial and essential.

100%. And, seriously! Where would we be without dog poop metaphors in software engineering? Just last night, I told a colleague that my agent pooped on the carpet.