Should You Ship a Web Version While the Store Reviews Your App? Choosing a Release Order for a Rork App With Three Questions
Web first or store first for an app built in Rork? I checked Rork's FAQ and Expo's docs: Rork Pro and Rork Max give you different options, and three questions help you decide the release order.
Can You Move an iOS App From an Individual Account to an Organization Later? Five Things to Clear Before App Transfer
I checked Apple's own pages on moving an app published under an individual Apple Developer account to an organization account later. Here is what must be true first, what to clear, and what does and does not carry over.
Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, or Opus 5.5? I Decide by the Kind of Fix Before I Pick the Model. A Week of Logging Where My Rork Credits Went
After Rork's model menu settled into Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, and Opus 5.5, I sorted my fixes into three kinds and assigned a model and effort level to each. Here is how I read the changelog, the tiny ledger that tracks where each credit goes, and the rule I drew from a week of entries.
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.
August 31 Means Something Different Depending on Whether You Plan to Ship an Update
Two separate conditions land on Google Play's August 31 date: API 36 to submit an update, and API 35 to stay discoverable to new users. Here is how I sorted six apps, and who actually gets the extension form.
Handing Over an App — What an App Store Transfer Carries, and What You Rebuild
A practical look at App Store Connect app transfers when selling or moving an app: the eligibility criteria, what carries over (ratings, subscribers, iCloud data), what you rebuild (TestFlight, APNs, merchant IDs), and the three places users actually feel the change.
Two Weeks of Maintenance After v2.1.0 — Running Crashlytics Triage Through Claude in Chrome
Notes from operating Beautiful 4K/HDR Wallpapers v2.1.0 and Ukiyo-e Wallpapers v1.8.0 through phased rollout. Defensive RecyclerView copies, Glide desugaring, drawable-nodpi placement, and what I now hand off to Claude in Chrome every morning.
Auditing Privacy Manifests for Rork-Generated Expo Apps — A One-Day Pre-Submission Workflow for Indie Developers
A pre-submission workflow for indie developers shipping Rork-generated Expo apps: enumerate every dependency, tell ITMS-91053 apart from ITMS-91061, and catch the Pods that npm names never show you — hermes included.
Your First Monetized App With Rork — From Idea to Store to First Revenue
An end-to-end playbook for an indie developer shipping their first revenue-earning app on Rork — covering idea validation, building, store submission, and the first $100.
From Rork Prompt to App Store Revenue: A Case Study
A practical record of taking a Rork app from planning through App Store review, launch, and revenue improvements: total costs, review pitfalls, and a stated-assumption estimate of ad revenue at 100 DAU.
Rork App Revenue Design: Where Ads and Subscriptions Eat Each Other
How to layer AdMob, subscriptions, and one-time purchases in a Rork app without letting them cannibalize each other. Covers value-density placement, entitlement-first RevenueCat architecture, server-side receipt verification, and behavior-triggered paywalls.
Losing HealthKit Data on Incremental Sync — Designing HKQueryAnchor Persistence
When step or sleep data double-counts or goes missing on incremental HealthKit sync, the root cause is usually HKQueryAnchor persistence. Here is a working Swift design that handles newAnchor and deletedObjects correctly and stays consistent across reinstalls and background updates.