WrestleAI · B2C · AI wrestling coach app
Build the app with an AI tool and pay a $250 freelancer to add payments
Live on the App Store about a month after the idea
Workedfeature-development
What they did
Spent the first week prompting Rork from morning to night until he liked the app; used public APIs for functionality; pasted Expo/TestFlight error logs into ChatGPT as an advisor. Paid a Fiverr developer ~$250 for about a week to integrate the paywall and authentication. The last two weeks went to App Store rejections. Advice: set aside a week of nonstop prompting per new app and look for cheap external APIs (e.g. a nutrition database).
What happened
Idea to App Store in about a month with no coding skills
- Stage
- Pre-launch (Build (June 2025))
“I spent the first week of June on Rork prompting nonstop until I got something that I liked. From there, I passed it on to the developer.”
“so anytime there was an issue with Expo, I would just copy the logs, throw the logs into ChatGPT, and I kind of had ChatGPT as my advisor”
“That took him about a week, and then the last 2 weeks were just spent dealing with Apple's nonsense and rejections.”
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