Stop Burning Your One Push-Permission Shot on App Launch — Pre-Prompt Priming for Rork Apps
If your Rork (Expo) app fires the OS push-permission dialog at launch, every 'Don't Allow' tap closes that channel forever — iOS won't let you ask again. Here's how a self-built pre-permission screen lifts your opt-in rate, with the Expo code to do it.
Taking a Rork App From 'Working' to 'Ready to Sell on the Store'
The finishing workflow that takes a Rork-generated app from 'it runs' to 'it actually sells on the store'. Ten checkpoints I learned the hard way running solo apps for over a decade.
Designing Rork Apps That Don't Let Users Down on Bad-Signal Days — UX Patterns for Unstable Networks
After shipping a Rork app, the #1 reason I was losing review stars wasn't a crash — it was 'the screen just stays blank.' Here's how I redesign loading, empty, and error states so the experience gracefully degrades on flaky connections.
Keeping a Rork-Built Solo App Alive Past Year Three — A Maintenance Design Against Silent App Aging
When you run a Rork-built app over the long haul, a kind of 'aging' starts creeping in that wasn't visible at launch — OS updates, breaking library changes, shifting device landscapes. After more than a decade of independent app development and two years of running Rork apps, here are the maintenance design principles I rely on to keep apps stable past year three.