Minimal Customer Support Architecture for Solo Rork Devs — Running Inquiries for Multiple Apps Alone
The minimum-viable customer support stack I run as a solo developer maintaining a dozen apps with 50M cumulative downloads — in-app form with auto-attached diagnostics, Gmail filtering, reply templates, and the escalation rules that keep me under thirty minutes a day.
Designing AdMob App Open Ad Frequency Without Hurting Retention — Operational Notes from Wallpaper Apps
Implementation notes from rebuilding the AdMob App Open Ad frequency design in a recent wallpaper app update. Minimum intervals, cold-start exceptions, and post-modal suppression are controlled dynamically through Remote Config, with Claude in Chrome handling the daily dashboard review.
Why FlatList's onEndReached Fires Multiple Times — and How to Stop It
After wiring up infinite scroll in a Rork-generated FlatList, you may notice the same paginated request hitting your API two or three times in a row. Here's why onEndReached fires more often than you expect and how to add a two-layer defense that survives production.
Rork iOS App Rejected with ITMS-90683 on TestFlight — How to Fix Missing Purpose Strings via app.json
If your Rork-built iOS app passes upload but gets an email titled ITMS-90683: Missing Purpose String in Info.plist, this guide walks through the real cause and the permanent fix via app.json, based on 12 years of shipping personal iOS apps with the same problem appearing across new SDK updates.
Putting AdMob Bidding into Production for a Rork App — Five Networks Bidding in Parallel, eCPM Trends, and Daily Operations
I moved the AdMob mediation layer of my Rork-generated apps from waterfall to bidding, with five ad networks bidding in parallel. Here are my real-world numbers after three weeks of production, the SDK pitfalls, and how I delegate daily monitoring to Claude in Chrome.
Two Months Without Opening AdMob Every Day — A Four-Tier Slack Setup for My Rork Apps
I have been shipping iOS and Android apps since 2014, and opening AdMob first thing in the morning had become a daily ritual. Earlier this spring I let it go and rebuilt the workflow around a four-tier Slack notification setup. Two months in, here is what I learned, including the misfires that took me three weeks to iron out.
Automating Production Incident Response as a Solo Developer — Crashlytics, Sentry, Slack Routing, and Staged Rollback
Twelve years of running my own iPhone and Android apps, accumulating 50 million downloads, taught me a specific shape for production incident response. This article shares the Crashlytics + Sentry double layer, Slack routing into interrupt and log channels, and a Remote Config plus EAS Update staged rollback I keep returning to.
Production-Quality VoiceOver and Dynamic Type for Rork Apps
An indie developer's implementation notes for adding production-quality VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion support to React Native apps generated by Rork — covering label design, focus management, and regression testing.
Fixing 0x8badf00d Watchdog Kills That Wipe Out Rork Apps at Launch
Your Rork iOS app dies right after launch on real devices. Crashlytics shows exception code 0x8badf00d. Here is the watchdog termination story and the exact steps an indie developer running React Native apps for 50M downloads uses to make it stop.
A month of running Rork and Claude on Xcode side by side — where each one ended up fitting
Notes from an indie developer who has shipped wallpaper apps on iOS and Android since 2014. After a month of keeping both Rork and Claude on Xcode open on the same desk, the work that fit each one turned out to be more obvious than I expected.
Rork × StoreKit 2 × App Store Server API — A Three-Layer Subscription Architecture for Indie Apps
How to combine StoreKit 2 and Apple's App Store Server API to protect subscription revenue in Rork iOS apps with three coordinated layers: client verification, server-side JWS validation, and notification reconciliation.
Rolling Out Firebase App Check in Rork Without Breaking AdMob or Crashlytics
A practical, staged rollout for Firebase App Check in Rork apps that keeps Crashlytics reporting, Realtime Database listeners, and AdMob payouts intact — written from 50M+ downloads of indie experience.