Hard-earned insights from building 10+ React Native apps over 8 years. Real code, real numbers, real opinions.
How do you monetize a React Native app? After building and shipping over 10 apps, I've tried every model: ads with AdMob, subscriptions through RevenueCat, one-...
Read articleHere's the direct answer: use RevenueCat for mobile app subscriptions and in-app purchases. Use Stripe for web payments and one-time purchases that happen outsi...
If you're adding in-app purchases to a React Native app, use RevenueCat. I've tried all three major approaches across multiple apps, and RevenueCat (through the...
I built one of these (Ship React Native), so take my opinions with a grain of salt. But I've also evaluated most of the others while building mine, and I think ...
There are three ways to build a React Native AI app right now: call AI APIs through edge functions, run models on-device with ExecuTorch, or combine both. After...
Here's the direct answer most comparison posts won't give you: the majority of React Native templates hand you UI components and navigation scaffolding, then le...
Most indie developers never think about selling their apps. I didn't either — until I realized some of my apps had more value to someone else than they did to m...
Everyone tells you to "find a problem to solve." But which problems? And how do you know if anyone will actually pay for the solution?
In 2017, I started teaching myself to code in Białystok, Poland. Today, I have 10+ React Native apps under my belt — some active, some sold, some retired.
Your React Native app runs at 60fps. Bundle size is optimized. Memory usage is low. Yet users complain it "feels slow."
"AI can't replace developers."
"React Native is dead."
"Vibecoding" sounds like a meme. It's not.
I started teaching myself to code in 2017. Navigation was broken. Animations stuttered. The docs were incomplete.
Voice memos are boring. Until you add AI.
The vibecoding era is here.
