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 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-Assist—the app to finish all apps. The font from which all different apps might stream. The chilly fusion of coding.
Alright, I’m exaggerating, but it surely’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.
After I say Rork makes apps, I imply it actually makes the rattling factor (at the very least I feel 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 online 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 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) Might 22, 2025
As soon as I punched the immediate in (pun meant), Rork started working (pondering for some time as AI does) after which used its corresponding giant language mannequin (Anthropic’s Claude 4 mannequin) to start out drawing all the things up. And I imply all the things—colours, options, parameters, mainly each side of an app that you just would possibly have to launch. And the conjuring doesn’t cease there. As soon as all the things is devised, Rork’s interface splits all the things off into packages if you wish to have a look at the code (that’s, in the event you’re able to studying it, in contrast to me), after which it does my favourite half—it generates a usable preview that you may check in your cellphone or one other gadget.
After the AI had coded all the things, 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, 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 pictures or video—an AI app that generates AI—but it surely bumped into some points that I wasn’t capable of absolutely wrap my head round. Per Rork, they had been “important errors,” and even after I clicked the “repair” button, it wouldn’t budge. No AI app inception as we speak, people, 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 combating) and write up all of the code to make it occur in a couple of minute or so. Once more, a coder I’m not, however that feels fairly extraordinary from a sheer concept 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 very least serviceable, if very removed from excellent. Additionally, if I’m being trustworthy, I used to be searching for extra of a Struggle Membership-type app over MMA, however I suppose Claude performed this one protected.
There’s clearly huge potential right here to expedite app creation, however identical 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 Stream 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. However hey, if I get wealthy fast with FightMatch, I can’t actually complain, can I? And in the event you disagree, swipe proper, and let’s settle this the old school method.
