2027 iOS AI App Guide
Build your app end to end with AI. One path from an empty repo to a shipping, subscription iOS app — payments that reconcile, a public page you control from inside the app, a real two-way inbox, and a giveaway that gives people a reason to keep paying. Every module, one bundle.
What's inside
Four modules, one app
Each is a standalone guide with the code, the gotchas, and the decisions already made. Together they cover the parts of an iOS app that are tedious to get right and dangerous to get wrong.
Gamify Your iOS App
A quarterly prize giveaway built in: members vote on the prize, an auditable draw picks a winner, the winner chooses the item or its cash value. A legal sweepstakes, not a lottery.
Public page, gated by a toggle
A public profile or landing page whose visibility is controlled by switches inside your app — per-feature toggles that actually enforce on the public side, with database-wins hydration and no orphaned "still live when it's off" pages.
Stripe payments & Connect
A webhook that actually fulfils: raw-body signature verification, event routing, single-source-of-truth lookups, idempotency, and safe status writes — without the silent-200 and wrong-database failures that plague first attempts.
Two-way email inbox
Send and receive in one thread: outbound with per-thread reply routing, inbound receiving with verified webhooks, unread counts, and quoted-reply trimming — so replies show the message, not just the subject line.
The path
Empty repo to shipping app
The modules aren't a random pile — they're an order. This is the sequence we'd build them in, each one usable on its own but stronger stacked.
Take money reliably
Stripe payments & Connect. Get paid and have every charge reconcile against your database before you build anything that depends on who's paying.
Put a public face on it
Public page, gated by a toggle. A storefront or profile you flip on and shape from inside the app — the switches enforce on the public side, not just in the UI.
Talk to your customers
Two-way email inbox. Replies land in-app in the right thread, with unread counts — a real conversation, not a no-reply blast.
Give them a reason to stay
Gamify your iOS app. A quarterly giveaway loop that turns a subscription into a standing appointment — and does it as a legal sweepstakes.
Two ways in
Own the whole path.
Buy the modules one at a time as you need them, or take the lifetime pass and unlock every guide on the site — including the ones still shipping in this bundle, and everything we publish next.
Lifetime — all guides
- Every guide in this bundle, and every other on the site
- Every guide we publish next — no extra charge
- One payment, no subscription
- Founding price, rising toward $99 as the library grows
Single modules
- Start with Gamify Your iOS App — live now
- Add the others as each ships
- Full reader, code, and gotchas per module
- Prefer it built for you? Apply from $500
Questions
Before you buy
The bundle is a path, not a single SKU. Lifetime ($49) unlocks every guide at once — the simplest way to get the whole thing. Or buy modules individually at $12 as they ship.
Gamify Your iOS App is live and readable now. The public-page toggle, Stripe payments, and two-way inbox modules are part of the bundle and shipping — lifetime members get them automatically the moment each lands.
No. Every module has a done-for-you door — apply and we'll scope a fixed price and build it into your app, from $500. The giveaway module includes running a first dry-run draw with you.
Built as a sweepstakes with no purchase necessary and a free alternate entry, which is the standard way to keep it out of lottery territory. It's engineering guidance, not legal advice — have a lawyer review your rules before the first draw.