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Rork Practical Techniques [Part 2] — Monetization, Production Quality, CI/CD & Performance

Notes from running Rork-built apps in production: StoreKit 2 / RevenueCat, EAS CI/CD, Detox, SQLite + CRDT, and Gemini streaming — annotated with the judgment calls I have made since 2013 as an indie developer.

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If you finished Part 1 and now have a Rork-built app that ships to the App Store, the next set of decisions — how to monetize, how to ship safely, how to keep the app responsive — sit in a place the official documentation does not cover. This Part 2 is closer to a field notebook than a tutorial: it documents the decisions I have made over the past two years while shipping wallpaper, healing, and manifestation apps under Dolice Labs.

I have been running iOS / Android apps as an indie developer since 2013 — about 50 million cumulative downloads, peaking at roughly USD 7K/month in AdMob revenue on one of the wallpaper apps. On the way there I broke production with a botched StoreKit receipt validation, then later watched a Detox flake cascade keep CI red for three weeks. Rork compressed the prototype-to-store path so aggressively that those failures became cheaper to recover from, but the decisions in Part 2 are the ones I now make on day one, not week eight.

Setup and context — Part 2 Topics

This article treats monetization, production quality, performance, AI features, and growth as a single roadmap rather than separate checklists. The ordering reflects what I wish someone had told me twelve months in: the items at the top compound the longest if you put them in first.

Specifically, in order:

  • StoreKit 2 + RevenueCat with introductory offers, ATT gating, and server-side validation
  • Stripe subscriptions handled from Cloudflare Workers
  • AdMob banner / interstitial / rewarded as a three-layer placement with a realistic eCPM view
  • Freemium → monthly → yearly pricing, and the price tests I have failed on wallpaper apps
  • Detox E2E, Sentry release health, EAS Build / Update staged rollouts
  • React.memo, FlatList, and image cache budgets
  • SQLite + CRDT offline-first, and where conflict resolution turns into incidents
  • Gemini streaming and isolating it behind Cloudflare Workers AI
  • ASO combined with Rork Max two-click publish to compress launch velocity

The code in this article focuses on the "last 20%" — the deliberate edits I make on top of Rork's generated output. If you treat Part 1 as the generation pass, treat Part 2 as the operating manual.


Setup and context — Part 2 Topics

Building on Part 1's design and basic implementation, this section covers advanced techniques for building apps that actually succeed in production. Covers:

  • ✅ StoreKit 2 + RevenueCat monetization
  • ✅ Detox E2E test automation
  • ✅ EAS Build / Update CI/CD pipeline
  • ✅ React.memo and FlatList performance tuning
  • ✅ SQLite + CRDT offline-first design
  • ✅ Gemini API streaming chat implementation
  • ✅ App Store optimization and growth strategy

Complete this guide and you'll build apps targeting $10,000+ monthly revenue.


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I share what worked and what I deliberately dropped on the way to AdMob revenue around USD 7K/month, drawn from running indie apps since 2013 to 50M cumulative downloads.
Code for StoreKit 2 + RevenueCat with introductory offers and ATT timing, Detox flake mitigation, EAS Update staged rollouts, and CRDT persistence — places the official docs leave underspecified.
Picks up where Part 1 left off and stitches monetization, production quality, performance, and AI features into a single roadmap I would have wanted on day one.
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