Getting Rork Max SwiftUI Code Through App Store Review: A Playbook
Rork Max generates SwiftUI code in minutes, but there are eight overlooked stages between that code and a shippable App Store release. Having been bounced by review more than once as an indie developer, I've written down the steps that get generated code ready to submit.
Building a Production-Grade Handwriting Note App with Rork × PencilKit
How to ship a real PencilKit-based note app with Rork — covering Apple Pencil Pro Squeeze and Hover, PKDrawing persistence, CloudKit sync, and Vision-based handwriting OCR with production patterns.
Making a Rork App Sell on the App Store — ASO, Pricing, and IAP Strategy
How to take a Rork-built app from invisible to ranked, priced right, and earning real money on the App Store. ASO, price psychology, IAP design, and subscription tactics drawn from running indie apps solo.
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.
How I Cut My Rork App's AI Costs from $350 to $35/Month with Cloudflare AI Gateway
The default AI Gateway cache key is built from the request you actually send. Here is why prompt normalization silently does nothing, how to wire it in with cf-aig-cache-key, and the Workers and React Native code I run in production.
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.
When Your FlatList Starts Stuttering: Migrating Rork Apps to FlashList v2
When your Rork app's long lists start feeling sluggish, migrating to FlashList v2 makes scrolling dramatically smoother. Here is the practical migration path, taking advantage of v2's removal of estimatedItemSize.
Adding a Notification Service Extension to a Rork App — Rich Push, Encrypted Payloads, and Dynamic Rewriting
Wiring a Notification Service Extension into a Rork-built iOS app — image attachments, end-to-end encrypted payloads, and dynamic APNs payload rewriting — with working Swift code and the production pitfalls that bit me along the way.
Rork × AI Moderation Production Guide: Reporting, Auto-Review, and Tiered Sanctions for UGC Apps
A complete production-grade guide to layering AI moderation, reporting, and tiered sanctions into your Rork UGC app. Includes a working three-layer pipeline using OpenAI Moderation, Perspective API, and Cloudflare Workers Queues.
Building an AI-Powered Photo Organizer App with Rork — A Complete Implementation Guide Using Vision, CLIP, and pgvector
A complete implementation guide for building an AI-powered photo organizer app with Rork. Extract faces, objects, and text with the Vision framework, generate semantic embeddings with CLIP, and run similarity search at scale using Supabase pgvector — designed as a production pipeline from day one.
Rork × MetricKit — Building a Solo Diagnostics Pipeline for Crashes, Hangs, and Battery Drain
A practical guide to building a continuous production-quality observability pipeline for Rork-built apps using only Apple's first-party MetricKit framework — no third-party SDKs needed.