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7 Design Principles for Apps That Keep Growing After Launch with Rork Max
When building with Rork Max, 80% of post-launch growth is determined by decisions made during development. Here are 7 design principles to build into your app from the start.
The First 90 Days After Launching a Rork App — 8 Decisions That Shape the Year
After 12 years of solo app development, I have come to believe the first 90 days post-launch matter more than anything else. This article walks through 8 decision branches that shape your trajectory — from crash triage to ad revenue tuning to when to start the next app.
Four Levers I Re-Examined When Revenue Stalled Short of ¥100k/Month — Tuning Apps Built With Rork
What to touch first when solo-app revenue stalls just short of ¥100k/month: ad eCPM, IAP pricing, subscription retention, and ASO — what worked and what didn't in my own apps, with code you can reuse.
Mobile App Monetization Foundations With Rork — Choosing Between Ads, IAP, and Subscriptions
A monetization primer for Rork-built mobile apps: ads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions compared by fit and implementation pitfalls, plus a small estimator that turns your own DAU, conversion, and churn assumptions into side-by-side monthly revenue, AdMob mediation practice, and cohort retention code.
Rork × Subscription Groups and Intro Offers — Implementation Patterns That Lift Subscription Revenue
If you shipped a monthly subscription with your Rork-built app and watched first-month churn climb past 50%, the fix usually lives in two places: how your Subscription Group is structured, and which intro offer format you picked. This guide walks through both, with production-ready StoreKit 2 code.
Designing a Rork App That Doesn't Get Deleted — A Solo Developer's Playbook for the First Week
Most Rork apps die in the first three days. Starting with where deletion data actually comes from (not Firebase, on iOS), here is a first-week design for D0, D1, D3 and D7 — with the code that makes each stage measurable.
Building a Cofounder-Level AI Agent — Equity, Escrow Trusts, and Team Dynamics at the $1M Milestone
Structure your Rork agent as a genuine cofounder: design equity trusts, vesting schedules, and incentive alignment. Includes legal templates, tax strategy, and exit planning.
How to Make Ads and Subscriptions Coexist in a Rork App: A Solo Developer's Hybrid Revenue Model
I used to think ads and subscriptions don't mix. After a year of experiments on my own apps, I learned that with the right boundary design, a hybrid produces nearly 1.7x the revenue of either model alone. Here's the model I'm shipping, with implementation code and real numbers.
Choosing a Revenue Model for Your Rork App — Ads, Subscriptions, or One-Time Purchase, Backed by Real Operating Numbers
Drawing on the years I spent running ads in my own wallpaper apps, I rebuilt the comparison of ads, subscriptions, and one-time purchases under identical conditions — with genre-by-genre guidance and implementation notes for Rork.
Monetizing SwiftUI Native Apps Built with Rork Max — From App Store Approval to Subscription Revenue
How to take SwiftUI code generated by Rork Max through App Store review and add StoreKit 2 subscriptions, with working code and the items review actually checks.
Squeezing Every Character of Value Out of Your App Store Keyword Field — A Practical ASO Guide for Rork-Built Apps
The App Store keyword field gives you only 100 characters, and they often decide whether an indie app is found at all. Here is how I design that field for Rork-built apps: removing words already in the name and subtitle, covering spelling variants, designing per locale, and a small script that counts the remaining budget for you.
Rork Funding and Startup History — A Builder's Read on the Strategy and What's Next
What we know publicly about Rork's funding rounds, founding context, and the meaning of a16z's lead investment — synthesized into the practical question every Rork user should ask: is it safe to keep building my business on this platform?