Back in my day, the phrase was once “there’s an app for that,” and that’s nonetheless the case, although with one main modification: now, it’s “there’s an AI app for that.” In truth, there’s even an AI app for making apps—buckle up, kiddos, issues are about to get meta. Let me clarify: Rork, which I stumbled throughout whereas scrolling X, is—if we’re to drink the Kool-Aid—the app to finish all apps. The font from which all different apps could movement. The chilly fusion of coding.
Alright, I’m exaggerating, however it’s precisely what I alluded to: an app that makes apps, which is sort of a hat on a hat if the primary hat really made the second hat. To make issues much more meta, Rork used an AI advert with Google’s new Veo 3 video generator to advertise its instrument. Is your head spinning but? Mine type of is.
When I say Rork makes apps, I imply it actually makes the rattling factor (at the least I feel it does since I wouldn’t know a useful piece of code if it sat on my chest and suffocated me like a sleep paralysis demon). But on the floor, it does the entire thing. I went to the net model of Rork to strive it out (there’s no cellular app that I’m conscious of), and it seemingly took my textual content immediate, “I need to make an app that matches me with similar-sized individuals in my space to combat. Like Tinder however for fisticuffs,” and ran with it.
Introducing Rork 1.0
Make any cellular app you need, reserve it to your cellphone or share it with the world – in minutes.
Powered by Claude 4. Video by Veo 3 AI. pic.twitter.com/xr3uibte7g
— Rork (@rork_app) May 22, 2025
Once I punched the immediate in (pun meant), Rork set to work (pondering for some time as AI does) after which used its corresponding massive language mannequin (Anthropic’s Claude 4 mannequin) to begin drawing every little thing up. And I imply every little thing—colours, options, parameters, principally each side of an app that you simply may must launch. And the conjuring doesn’t cease there. Once every little thing is devised, Rork’s interface splits every little thing off into packages if you wish to have a look at the code (that’s, in case you’re able to studying it, not like me), after which it does my favourite half—it generates a usable preview that you could take a look at in your cellphone or one other machine.
After the AI had coded every little thing, I used to be capable of scan a QR code and generate a preview utilizing ExpoGo, a instrument that allows you to deploy code in a preview mode. So, with out additional ado, women and gents, I current to you: FightGame, Tinder for kicking ass.
It’s price noting that I attempted to make this much more meta by prompting Rork to make an app that makes use of generative AI to make photos or video—an AI app that generates AI—however it bumped into some points that I wasn’t capable of totally wrap my head round. Per Rork, they have been “vital errors,” and even once I clicked the “repair” button, it wouldn’t budge. No AI app inception as we speak, of us, sorry.
On one hand, as somebody with no coding expertise, I’m impressed. Rork, as promised, was capable of take my quite simple textual content immediate (Tinder for preventing) and write up all of the code to make it occur in a couple of minute or so. Again, a coder I’m not, however that feels fairly extraordinary from a sheer thought to preview perspective. I’m pretty sure no matter Rork and Claude generated wouldn’t be sufficient to push to an app retailer instantly, each from a technical and aesthetic perspective, however as a primary draft, it’s at the least serviceable, if very removed from excellent. Also, if I’m being sincere, I used to be searching for extra of a Fight Club-type app over MMA, however I suppose Claude performed this one secure.
There’s clearly huge potential right here to expedite app creation, however similar to with each generative instrument like this, there’s additionally potential for one thing much less thrilling—slop. Like I wrote earlier this week, instruments like Google’s Veo 3 and Flow are spectacular technical feats, however additionally they really feel primed to additional bloat an already overwhelming bucket of AI slop. There’s at all times that query: do we want extra apps or do we want higher apps? I’m a proponent of the latter philosophy, but when there’s one factor I’ve come to count on within the tech world, it’s extra. But hey, if I get wealthy fast with FightGame, I can’t actually complain, can I? And in case you disagree, swipe proper, and let’s settle this the old school method.
