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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-27Intermediate

Two Months of Rork × Hermes in Production — Cold Start and Memory in Real Numbers

What actually happens to cold start, memory, and crash rates after running Rork-generated apps with Hermes enabled in production for two months. Field notes from an indie developer with 50 million cumulative downloads.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-26Intermediate

Two Weeks Tightening Up iPad Support for a Rork-Generated Wallpaper App

Notes from spending two weeks tightening up iPad support for a wallpaper app I scaffolded with Rork. Coming from an iPhone-centric indie practice since 2014, I cover where Rork's defaults stopped, how the AdMob adaptive banner misbehaved on iPad, and what changed in retention afterwards.

⟐ Business/2026-05-19Intermediate

The First 72 Hours After Shipping a Rork App — Crashes, Reviews, and Ad Priorities

The 72 hours right after you ship a Rork-generated app to the App Store or Google Play quietly decide most of the next six months of ratings and ranking. Here is the order I watch things in, after many years of solo iOS and Android releases.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-18Intermediate

Three Weeks of Adjusting a Rork-Generated App for iPad: Design Notes

After building a small iPhone app with Rork, I opened it on my iPad Air and found more rough edges than I expected. Here are the concrete adjustments I made over three weeks.