In this recorded Claude Code showcase, host Joe Apfelbaum introduces a series of student projects created after completing the Claude Code Masterclass. The first demo is an auto‑updating painter directory website where a Claude‑driven agent crawls the web daily, discovers new painters, and adds them to the live site, even allowing painters to self‑register. The second demo, presented by another student, replicates Joe’s approach to build a comprehensive back‑office suite for dispensary operations, including an office manager, inventory manager, and bookkeeping module, all powered by Claude agents. Interspersed are brief promotional spots for a LinkedIn‑hacks product and a short explanation of divergent thinking as a creative strategy. The overall narrative emphasizes how Claude’s agentic capabilities enable rapid, low‑code development of real‑world business tools, showcases student ingenuity, and highlights the value of wide‑angle brainstorming before narrowing design choices.
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If you click on View Live Site on the portfolio, it actually takes you to the live site. This is getting auto-updated by an agent every single day. It's finding painters online and it's adding them to the directory. One of the cool features that I added to the directory is— All right. So for those of, for those of you that don't know, we are doing a Claude showcase now, which means every person is going to showcase something that they're proud of, that they accomplished with Claude. We have many students that have went through the Claude Code Masterclass and they built things. And some of them want to showcase whether it's their website, whether it's a Chrome extension, whether it's an app that they built. Whether it's an idea that they had and something that they did. If you click on view live site on the portfolio, it actually takes you to the live site. This is getting auto-updated by an agent every single day. It's finding painters online and it's adding them to the directory. One of the cool features that I added to the directory is that if a painter comes to the website, let's say there's a commercial painter, residential painter, or house painter, or a cabinet painter, and they want to add themselves.
So I said, let me do what Joe does. Okay. So I started talking to Claude. I'm creating a back office for dispensary offices so they don't have to hire staff.
Oh my God. Amazing.
So I'm, I'm, I'm doing an office manager. I'm doing an inventory manager. I'm doing a bookkeeper and it's almost ready, but I just got frustrated and I said, let me do what Joe does.
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Hey everyone. So nice to be with you all right now. So divergent thinking is basically the art of going wide before going narrow. It's that phase where you want as many different angles as possible, even the weird ones. The magic isn't just in brainstorming more, it's in deliberately suspending judgment long enough for unusual combinations to show up.
And I'll be like, what do you, what do you, what do you mean? What do you mean 6 months? Why is it gonna take 6 months? I was— he's like, 'cause I'm using Claude Code. If I was doing it manually, it would take me 2 years, 3 years for an MVP, but it'll take me 6 months to build this with Claude Code. And I was like, you're using Claude Code and you're charging me $5,000 a month for this, for you to use Claude Code? He's like, yeah. And I was like, so what do you need me for? I asked him. He's like, 'cause you're gonna have to sit with me for hours telling me what to put into Claude Code. I was like, I don't need to tell you what to put into Claude Code. You didn't need to need an IDE. You didn't need any of that stuff. You have crons going, you have everything. You have agents that are talking to you on your computer and on your servers. That's amazing, guys. That's what people pay big bucks for. So figure out a way to monetize that. And thank you for being in my life. Thank you for attending the showcase. I'm glad that we looked at some projects. If you want to see the rest of them, go to evvius.com/portfolio. Go ahead, MK. Want to make networking easier and more effective? Try Evvy AI. Your AI-powered sidekick that helps you connect, engage, and grow your network faster than ever. Click the link and start building smarter relationships today.
