Vibe Coding for Begginers Tutorial with Joe Apfelbaum

Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Evie AI, shows how he followed up with 450 entrepreneurs from a cruise using LinkedIn and a custom directory, then demonstrates prompting Claude and Gemini to build an HTML/CSS/JS landing-page editor that users can edit and download.
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Alrighty, alrighty. This is Joe Applebaum. Oh, look at that. This is Joe Applebaum, CEO of Evie AI. We're an AI assistant for social media. I'm going to pull this to the right here so you guys could actually see this a little bit, a little bit better. There we go. All right. Okay, a little bit about me. I just went on a cruise for 8 days. Let me pop open LinkedIn real quick because this is what I do. We're gonna vibe Code something today. I went on a cruise for 8 days with 450 entrepreneurs. I had such a great time connecting with these people, building relationships, and now it's all about the follow-up. The fortune— they say the fortune is in the follow-up. Most people show up and throw up. I like to show up and follow up, build relationships with people, get to know them, connect with them, and so on and so forth. Um, so For me, it's all about learning about each person one at a time. So there's 450 people and I met, let's say, 100 of them. I want to go through each person that I met one at a time. So I built a little list here on the side. I'm going to type in cruise 2026. And each person that I met, for example, Katarina Fink, I click on open quick link over here. And then I can send her a quick little message. I could like her post. You see, she hasn't updated. Her thing in a really long time. I'm glad we are now connected. Would you be open to having a call with me to explore synergies? And I want to learn what type of clients I can send Your ways. My cell is 917-865-7631.
Okay.
So I just sent her this little message on LinkedIn, just like that. Um, all right. So moving on next, Alex Chase. Open up Alex Chase's recent activity on LinkedIn. I see she hasn't posted anything. I'm going to click on her profile. I'm going to say, Send connect. Love that we are working together. Let's make sure we connect on LinkedIn. So with Alex, she has over 200,000 followers online. And what we're doing is we're doing something called the TikTokWebinar.com. This TikTokWebinar.com, this is me and Alex, and we're going to be teaching people how to use TikTok on TikTokWebinar.com. We're gonna do it in March of 2026. We're gonna announce it in the Influencer Summit. Um, very excited for people who want to learn TikTok. It's called the TikTok Quick Start. So get your first 10,000 TikTok followers for people who want to master TikTok and be able to get TikToks rolling, which is interesting. And by the way, I have been posting on TikTok consecutively almost every day now. Since I don't know last week, maybe maybe a week and a half, maybe a week, maybe ten days or whatever. I have many dozens of followers now, and I have hundreds of views on each video, which is interesting. So I'm looking forward to keeping this momentum going. And we this is one of the amazing people that I met on the cruise that I'm following up with next. Tamia Dow. Tamia Dow is— this is her profile. She hasn't posted in the past 2 years. She's in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm gonna go ahead and send her a connection request, add a note. Glad we got to meet on the cruise and we got to chat. Looking forward to working with you. Are you open to connecting on LinkedIn. Okay, sending her a message. Boom, just like that, I just connected with Tamia Dow. Next, Kalen, Kalen Reddicup. Kalen Reddicup, he actually sent me his phone number on Facebook, so let me pull him up on Facebook. Kalen Reddicup. So you see he's on Facebook, he's my friend. Now I went from LinkedIn to Facebook with one click of a button, just like that. By the way, I'm going to click here. I'm going to click Edit Profile. I'm going to put the company name as JV Co-Pilot. JV Co-Pilot. I'm going to press Save Changes. So this way it actually says JV Co-Pilot, know what it is. I'm going to press Message and right over here, boom, I have his information. I press Save. I could see if he recently posted. Which is nice. I see he has jvcopilot.ai. I'm going to copy that, click on networking resources, add a resource, add a website, um, save resource. And now I have JV Copilot. If I want to check it out, I could just click on that. I see it clearly doesn't work. Uh, actually it does work. I just have to, I have to edit it to actually have the Actual HTTP www. Okay, so I'm gonna look at this into more detail. And very passionate about helping these guys out, Kalen and Tyler Matson. Okay, so now I have his phone number saved. I'm actually gonna open up the directory. I actually have the whole directory here. So if I go to marketers, marketers, Cruz, Actually, I'm going to open it up in a different window here. I'm not going to open it up here. If you're curious about the Marketers Cruise, this is what it is. I'm going to play a video for you so you can watch it.
Hey, this is Captain Lou, producer planner of the amazing annual mastermind vacation known as the Marketers Cruise. Here we are with 445 of our best marketing buddies from 18 countries around the world.
This is my 4th. This is my 3rd.
2nd.
1st.
9th annual Marketers Cruise.
It really wasn't a hard sell. Go on a cruise for a week and network with some of the top marketing professionals in the industry.
It's a vacation combined with a seminar. These are just real extraordinary experts giving you some of their best All you have to do is ask a question, you'll get 30 or 40 people that can answer it.
I got phenomenal advice as well as lots of offers of free products, free services, free help. You can't pay for some of this stuff, and that's what this group will do for you. I'd like to think that I spend 90% of my time doing the most important thing, which is probably fun.
My wonderful, fun-loving little group, we tore up the dance club in a way that I know is recorded on camera and I fear will reach the internet at some point in my life. We decided to create an atmosphere where it's 30% work, 70% play.
Could you imagine partying and going on a cruise with 400 or 500 of your closest friends?
You get to meet people maybe in the JV Jacuzzi or Pizza and Profits at night. Let me tell you about Pizza and Profits. It's a strange phenomenon.
You go up to the pizza place, which is 24 hours, and that starts at midnight.
Making new connections, launching products, deals are cut, joint ventures, and just keeps going and going and going and going and going.
Some of the people go until you smell bacon. What do you do in your business? Here's what I do in my business. Do you want a pepperoni pizza? Here's a cheese pizza.
I think that the way that they were able to break the ice for all the entrepreneurs there Is really just setting the tone of we're here to learn, we're here to share, you're here with your peers, and they really set the right framing for the entire—
Okay, so I did a little bit of follow-up today. I'm going to do more follow-up coming up soon, but for right now what I want to do is I want to vibe code something real quick because this video is all about vibe coding, but I wanted to warm you up. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go to Claude. I'm gonna say, make me an HTML, CSS, and JS landing page where people can type in the HTML, can paste HTML from anywhere, and it renders in the browser as a preview. Uh, renders in a browser as a preview. You have the ability to click a button to download the HTML as an HTML file, and you have the ability to also edit the HTML if you want. And you can copy it too. It should act like an IDE with numbered lines if possible, and also colored tags to indicate Where things begin and where things end. It should all be on a standalone with custom CSS to paste into. All right, let's just see what this looks like. Thinking about creating an HTML preview IDE. Architecting it. It's designing the page. Now I'm gonna take the same exact thing. I'm gonna go into Gemini and ask Gemini to do the same thing for me. And let's see which one goes faster. Oh, it says we cannot work. Could not work. Okay. This guy failed me already. We're almost done over here. Let's see how this works over here. And okay, right now it's writing something called the Cascading Style Sheets, the CSS. And now— oh, it looks like Gemini finished. Wow, Gemini already finished. How amazing is that? Now I do have something over here called Visual Studio, which I'm going to use real quick. I'm going to call it html_editor.html. I'm going to copy this here, Ctrl+S, right-click, reveal in File Explorer, and I'm going to open it just like This is the wrong thing. HTML editor. Reveal in File Explorer. This is F5. HTML editor. There you go. Oh, look at that. It worked. We have it ready to go. Let's see what this looks like. Let me paste this in here. Wow. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. We made it. So we just built, we vibe coded and we built something. Let me know if you want to learn how to do this yourself. I'm running a class very soon. Thank you for watching. Check out evviai.com to learn how to be able to get your assistant for social media, help you be more productive.
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