Why a16z Invested in Rork: The Future of AI-Native Indie Development
Understand why a16z backed Rork and what it means for indie developers. A deep dive into Rork's business philosophy and a practical roadmap for building profitable AI-native apps.
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.
Rork × Multimodal AI: Design Patterns for Building Intelligent Apps with Camera, Voice, and Text
Learn how to build multimodal AI apps with Rork that seamlessly integrate camera image recognition, voice input, and text analysis. Covers unified input layers, AI orchestration across Gemini, Claude, and Core ML, UX flow design, and production-ready error handling.
Taking Rork × Supabase pgvector Semantic Search to Production: Index Choice, Incremental Re-embedding, and Hybrid Retrieval
How to run semantic search in a Rork app for real. Measure HNSW against IVFFlat, cut embedding API calls with content hashing, and fuse vector search with full-text search using RRF.
The No-Code × AI App Market in 2026 — Where Can a Solo Developer Actually Stand?
From market projections to Rork's $15M seed in April 2026 and the two distribution deadlines landing in September — a look at where indie developers can actually stand, down to what you can move this month.
Rork App Won't Build? Eight Symptoms to Sort Out First
A troubleshooting FAQ that sorts Rork build failures by layer: dependency conflicts, unresolved Expo modules, simulator and emulator trouble, stalled generation, stale hot reload, and when Fix Now is safe to press.
Moving Six Apps to EAS CI/CD — EAS Build, OTA Updates, and GitHub Actions in Practice
How I moved the build and release pipeline for six indie apps to Expo Application Services: EAS Build for iOS and Android, OTA updates with EAS Update, GitHub Actions integration, and honest notes on free-tier limits.
Sunsetting an App Well — Designing the Path from Update Freeze to Full Shutdown
What to do with an app whose revenue no longer covers its server bill. A three-stage decision table, a CDN-based sunset flag with TypeScript implementation, a data export path, and the practical order for winding down auto-renewable subscriptions.
The Update That Failed Because a Profile Expired Three Months Ago
Apple signing assets expire quietly and nothing tells you. Here is how to count the days left with the App Store Connect API and put the audit on a weekly Cloudflare Workers cron.
Killing the Export Compliance Prompt in Rork Builds for Good
Every Rork and Rork Max build lands in App Store Connect with a Missing Compliance warning. Here is how to decide whether you qualify for the exemption, and how to set it once in app.json or Info.plist so the question never returns.
Placing Native Ads in a Masonry Wallpaper Grid: Designing the Lifetime of an Ad Cell
One native ad in a masonry gallery pushed memory from 180 MB to 420 MB over twenty minutes of scrolling. Here is why cell recycling and ad object lifetime never line up, the pool-based implementation that fixed it, and how I picked the insertion interval from measured numbers.
A Yellow Warning in Dev, a Crash on Resume — Functions in Route Params
Rork generated navigation code that put a function and a Date into route params. In development it was only a warning. After the OS reclaimed the process, resuming the app crashed with params.onFavorite is not a function. Here is the cause and the fix.