Keep Fixing in the Same Thread, or Restore and Rephrase? What I Learned Fixing One Rork Bug Both Ways
When a Rork fix request fails for the third time, do you keep going or use Restore and ask differently? I fixed the same bug both ways and compared round trips, leftover code, and where I now draw the line.
Sending user text to an external AI: what actually goes in Play's Data safety form
Classifying user input sent to an external AI as collected, shared, or ephemeral in Play's Data safety form, plus a redaction ordering bug found by running the code.
Pushing Rork Max's AI Beyond Vibe Coding — Patterns That Actually Improve Implementation Quality
A deep-dive on using Rork Max as an implementation partner: prompt patterns, context management, choosing between plain Rork and Rork Max, building without burning credits, and verifying AI-written native code before App Store submission — drawn from solo indie experience.
Building an AI-Powered Photo Organizer App with Rork — A Complete Implementation Guide Using Vision, CLIP, and pgvector
A complete implementation guide for building an AI-powered photo organizer app with Rork. Extract faces, objects, and text with the Vision framework, generate semantic embeddings with CLIP, and run similarity search at scale using Supabase pgvector — designed as a production pipeline from day one.
Use Apple FoundationModels in Rork — A Practical Guide to On-Device LLM Apps That Keep Working Offline
Call Apple's FoundationModels framework from a Rork-generated SwiftUI app to add AI features that keep working offline. Covers text generation, streaming, structured output via @Generable, and tool calling — all with full Swift code and production-ready error handling.
Building an AI Reading Assistant App with Rork — Bookshelf Scanning, Progress Tracking, and Chapter Summaries
A complete guide to building a reading app on Rork that scans your bookshelf with a photo, tracks progress per chapter, and generates personal AI summaries and reflective questions with Claude — including monetization design.
We Stopped Sending Push Notifications and Churn Dropped — Building an AI-Powered Churn Prediction System in Rork Max
Learn how to build a churn prediction system in Rork Max using Supabase Edge Functions, Claude API for personalized messages, and OneSignal for targeted delivery. Full implementation with code.
Building an AI Photo Editor App with Rork — Filters, Background Removal, and Style Transfer in Production
Implementation notes from building an AI photo editor with Rork — non-destructive editing, background removal with fallbacks, style transfer, and picking preview resolution from device memory, with working code and the reasoning behind each call.
Why a16z Invested in Rork: The Future of AI-Native Indie Development
Understand why a16z backed Rork and what it means for indie developers. A deep dive into Rork's business philosophy and a practical roadmap for building profitable AI-native apps.
Taking Rork × Supabase pgvector Semantic Search to Production: Index Choice, Incremental Re-embedding, and Hybrid Retrieval
How to run semantic search in a Rork app for real. Measure HNSW against IVFFlat, cut embedding API calls with content hashing, and fuse vector search with full-text search using RRF.
The No-Code × AI App Market in 2026 — Where Can a Solo Developer Actually Stand?
From market projections to Rork's $15M seed in April 2026 and the two distribution deadlines landing in September — a look at where indie developers can actually stand, down to what you can move this month.
When Your Finance App's AI Keeps Dumping Everything Into 'Other' — Field Notes on Catching Silent Classification Drift
An AI expense classifier in a Rork finance app can be accurate at launch and quietly decay over months until the monthly advice goes wrong. Here is how I instrumented confidence and category distribution to get ahead of the drift, with working code.