Again 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 reality, 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 while scrolling X, is—if we’re to drink the Kool-Support—the app to finish all apps. The font from which all different apps could circulation. The chilly fusion of coding.
Alright, I’m exaggerating, nevertheless 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 truly 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 software. Is your head spinning but? Mine sort of is.
Once I say Rork makes apps, I imply it actually makes the rattling factor (a minimum of I believe it does since I wouldn’t know a purposeful piece of code if it sat on my chest and suffocated me like a sleep paralysis demon). However on the floor, it does the entire thing. I went to the net model of Rork to strive it out (there’s no cell app that I’m conscious of), and it seemingly took my textual content immediate, “I wish to make an app that matches me with similar-sized individuals in my space to struggle. Like Tinder however for fisticuffs,” and ran with it.
Introducing Rork 1.0
Make any cell app you need, put it aside to your telephone 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
As soon as I punched the immediate in (pun supposed), Rork set to work (pondering for some time as AI does) after which used its corresponding giant language mannequin (Anthropic’s Claude 4 model) to begin drawing every little thing up. And I imply every little thing—colours, options, parameters, principally each side of an app that you just would possibly have to launch. And the conjuring doesn’t cease there. As soon as every little thing is devised, Rork’s interface splits every little thing off into packages if you wish to take a look at the code (that’s, for those who’re able to studying it, in contrast to me), after which it does my favourite half—it generates a usable preview that you would be able to check in your telephone or one other machine.
After the AI had coded every little thing, I used to be in a position to scan a QR code and generate a preview utilizing ExpoGo, a software that permits you to deploy code in a preview mode. So, with out additional ado, girls and gents, I current to you: FightMatch, Tinder for kicking ass.
It’s value 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 photographs or video—an AI app that generates AI—nevertheless it bumped into some points that I wasn’t in a position to totally wrap my head round. Per Rork, they have been “essential errors,” and even once I clicked the “repair” button, it wouldn’t budge. No AI app inception right this moment, people, sorry.
On one hand, as somebody with no coding expertise, I’m impressed. Rork, as promised, was in a position to take my quite simple textual content immediate (Tinder for preventing) and write up all of the code to make it occur in a few minute or so. Once more, 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 a minimum of serviceable, if very removed from excellent. Additionally, if I’m being trustworthy, I used to be on the lookout for extra of a Combat Membership-type app over MMA, however I suppose Claude performed this one secure.
There’s clearly huge potential right here to expedite app creation, however identical to with each generative software 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 all the time that query: do we’d like extra apps or do we’d like higher apps? I’m a proponent of the latter philosophy, but when there’s one factor I’ve come to anticipate within the tech world, it’s extra. However hey, if I get wealthy fast with FightMatch, I can’t actually complain, can I? And for those who disagree, swipe proper, and let’s settle this the old school means.
