AdMob Balance Below the Payment Threshold for Months: Three Screens to Check Before You Worry
If AdMob earnings stay under the payment threshold (8,000 yen for yen accounts), the balance rolls over rather than disappearing. Here is what actually deserves a check: address verification, payment holds, and account deactivation, based on the Help pages.
My App Open Ad Only Showed When the App Came Back From Background. The 'Returned to Foreground' Signal Fired Before the Ad Had Loaded
On a cold start, the app open ad in my Android app never showed. The foreground signal came before the load began. Here is how I split the signal from the load and rebuilt it as logic you can test ordering by ordering.
Your Blended eCPM Dropped and Revenue Went Up: Splitting the Change Into Country Mix and Rate
Blended eCPM is a weighted average, not a price. Here is how I split a month-over-month change into a country-mix effect and a rate effect that reconcile exactly to the total, plus what to check before you cut a low-eCPM country.
Building a Developer Debug Menu Into Your Rork App — Verify Ads, Purchases, and Remote Config Before Release
A production-safe developer debug menu for Rork apps — switch environments, force test ads, simulate entitlements, and override Remote Config, with working TypeScript code and the pitfalls I hit running six apps.
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.
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 running AdMob-funded indie apps in production.
Rebuilding a Live Wallpaper App with Rork Max: Measured Hours and Post-Relaunch Metrics
I rebuilt a wallpaper app that was already live using Rork Max, timing every stage. Measured hours per phase, the spec details the generated code got wrong, how existing subscribers were migrated safely, and 30-day post-relaunch metrics.
Running iOS and Android Simultaneously with Rork Max — A Dual-Store Revenue Strategy
Expanding a Rork Max app to both iOS and Android: platform-specific monetization, RevenueCat and AdMob integration, and a monthly revenue rollup built on RevenueCat webhooks. Written from the reporting mistakes I had to fix first.
From Rork to $1,000/month with AdMob — A Practical Indie Developer's Monetization Playbook
How to take a Rork-built mobile app toward meaningful monthly AdMob revenue: category fit, getting the ATT-before-initialize order right, time-based interstitial pacing, judging by ARPDAU, app-ads.txt, and running a small portfolio.
A Solo Developer's Strategy for Pushing a Mobile App Past ¥100k/Month — Real Revenue Tuning Tested on Rork-Built Apps
The hands-on strategy for breaking the ¥100k/month wall in solo mobile development. Ad eCPM optimization, IAP tuning, subscription retention, and ASO — every lever I've actually tested on Rork-built apps over 12 years of solo monetization, with code and numbers.
Mobile App Monetization Foundations With Rork — Choosing Between Ads, IAP, and Subscriptions
A monetization primer for Rork-built mobile apps: ads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions compared by fit and implementation pitfalls, plus a small estimator that turns your own DAU, conversion, and churn assumptions into side-by-side monthly revenue, AdMob mediation practice, and cohort retention code.
Choosing a Revenue Model for Your Rork App — Ads, Subscriptions, or One-Time Purchase, Backed by Real Operating Numbers
Drawing on the years I spent running ads in my own wallpaper apps, I rebuilt the comparison of ads, subscriptions, and one-time purchases under identical conditions — with genre-by-genre guidance and implementation notes for Rork.