Rork × LiveKit: Production Voice Agent Infrastructure for AI-Powered Apps
Field notes on wiring LiveKit Agents into a Rork-generated React Native app: the agent server and token API, recovering from incoming calls and expired tokens, metered subscription billing, unit economics, and the monitoring queries that catch trouble before your users do.
Fixing Japanese IME Input Issues in Rork Apps: A React Native Deep Dive
Apps generated by Rork often misbehave with Japanese IME input — events fire during composition, candidate windows close unexpectedly. Here's how to diagnose and fix it with working React Native code.
Loading Custom Fonts Cleanly in Rork Apps — Preventing Startup Flicker (FOIT/FOUT) With expo-font
When you ship a Rork-generated app with a custom font, you often see a brief flash of the system font at launch — the classic FOIT/FOUT problem. This guide shows how to combine expo-font and expo-splash-screen to hold the splash screen until fonts are ready, with copy-paste-ready code.
Launching a Branded Video Streaming App with Rork as a Solo Developer — HLS Delivery, Stripe Subscriptions, Offline Playback, and Revoking Access on Cancellation
A realistic blueprint for shipping a membership video app with Rork — how to pick an HLS backend, keep Stripe subscription state in sync with playback permission, handle offline viewing securely, and decide whether DRM is actually worth the cost.
Operating Rork Apps for Monthly Recurring Revenue: Updates, Churn, and Lineup Strategy
An iOS app cannot intercept the moment a user cancels. Detecting auto-renew-off, killing involuntary churn with billing grace periods, and measuring cohort retention the same way every month — the operations work behind monthly revenue in a Rork app.
Rork: From Launch to Your First $1,000 — ASO, Pricing, and Launch Marketing Playbook
Shipping a Rork app to the App Store is not the same as earning from it. A step-by-step playbook for ASO, pricing, and launch marketing that gets you to your first $1,000 in revenue.
Building an AI Reading Assistant App with Rork — Bookshelf Scanning, Progress Tracking, and Chapter Summaries
A complete guide to building a reading app on Rork that scans your bookshelf with a photo, tracks progress per chapter, and generates personal AI summaries and reflective questions with Claude — including monetization design.
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 Pricing Compared: Free vs Pro vs Max
An honest comparison of Rork's Free, Junior, Senior, and Max tiers for indie developers: how the 35-credit non-rolling system really works, a script that back-calculates your burn rate, and break-even DAU tables you can redraw with your own eCPM.
A Year to First Revenue with Rork: A Working Roadmap from Idea Validation to Retention
A 4-phase, 12-month roadmap from first Rork prototype to actual revenue: idea validation, plan cost design, store launch, monetization model selection, and retention work—at a level of detail you can act on.
Building an AI Photo Editor App with Rork — Filters, Background Removal, and Style Transfer in Production
Implementation notes from building an AI photo editor with Rork — non-destructive editing, background removal with fallbacks, style transfer, and picking preview resolution from device memory, with working code and the reasoning behind each call.
Reading Rork's $15M Seed Round as an Indie Developer — What I Checked Before Committing, and What Broke on the Way to Launch
A working read of Rork's April 2026 seed round — the investor lineup, the Paperline acquisition, and what early users actually get versus what they only hope for. Plus the four things that stalled my submission to the App Store and Google Play.