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Rork Lab This Week: Apple's Free Foundation Models, and Knowing When to Go Deeper
Editor's notes on four posts: data-driven triggers for moving up to Rork Max, a three-layer AI cost design after Apple opened Foundation Models, WidgetKit within Expo, and catching subscription refunds.
Building a Revenue Foundation in the First 90 Days After Rork Max Launch
What you do in the 90 days after your Rork Max app launches determines whether it becomes a revenue-generating product or an abandoned project. A practical phase-by-phase roadmap for building your first monetization foundation.
Native App or PWA? Three Questions to Answer Before Building with Rork
Should you build a native app with Rork or go with a PWA? This guide breaks down the real functional differences — push notifications, camera, App Store distribution — and gives you a clear decision framework.
Onspace or Rork Max for Complex App Logic? Notes From Building the Same App in Both
I handed the same requirements — payments, async error handling, and permission-based UI — to both Onspace and Rork Max, then compared what came back and how fixable it was. Here's my decision framework, plus a quick way to test which fits your project.
Designing Rork Apps Mathematically — Requirement Decomposition That Plays Well With AI Coding
Most Rork frustrations don't come from Rork — they come from fuzzy requirements. Here is a practical guide to applying the mathematical structure of search engines and classifiers to your Rork prompts.
Build a Plant Care Diary App with Rork — Photos, Watering Logs, and Reminders in One Tutorial
Learn how to build a plant care diary app with Rork — covering photo capture, local data storage, and push notification reminders. A hands-on tutorial for the three core features every app needs.
Telling Rork to Make It Feel Like a Quiet Museum — Translating a Creator's Vocabulary Into Implementation
What happens when you hand Rork the mood of your work instead of a spec? A record of prompting from emotion, pinning the returned spacing and timing into design tokens, and the places where fonts and regeneration stopped me.
Who Is Rork Actually For? An Honest Guide to Rork's Strengths and Limits
An honest look at who Rork suits and who should look elsewhere — including the architectural split between standard Rork and Rork Max, how fast the free tier runs out, and a 90-minute test for deciding whether it fits you.
Rork vs Bubble — Which No-Code Tool Should You Pick for Your Next App?
Both Rork and Bubble promise 'build apps without code,' but pick the wrong one and you fight the tool for weeks. A working comparison of fit, strengths, pricing, and learning curve from a practitioner's view.
When Rork / Rork Max Gets Stuck Mid-Build or Mid-Generation: A Recovery Flow
Your Rork or Rork Max project froze partway through. Generation paused and never resumed, the native build keeps failing while preview works, the project itself refuses to move forward. This guide categorizes the four stuck modes, shows how to diagnose yours in ten seconds, and walks through the recovery path that actually unblocks each one.
Adding Features to an Existing Rork App Without Breaking It
When you add a new feature to an app you already built in Rork, the AI often rewrites code it shouldn't touch. Here's the prompt pattern I arrived at after many failed attempts — five practical moves for steering Rork's AI precisely.
Rork vs. Bubble vs. Glide — I Built the Same App in All Three, and Here's What Held Up
Instead of comparing feature matrices, I built the same app in Rork, Bubble, and Glide and wrote down where each one hurt and where each one flew. A solo developer's field report rather than a sales-sheet summary.