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Trying out the Rocket app builder
TLDR: Disappointed with the operator. Stopped using it. Several undisclosed terms of service and billing issues.
Sometime back in July (2025), I watched a YouTube video about the Rocket AI tool. The service uses AI, and you interact with it to ask it to build either a website or a mobile app. The system utilizes tokens for all tasks, and it is free to sign up and begin building.
Planning
I got interested and started brainstorming a possible app I could make using Rocket. After I came up with a workable design, I made an account and started interacting with Rocket.
It was pretty slow, but I think there were just a lot of people using the platform. I had time to get up and grab coffee. I watched TV for a while.
During the first creation step, I was given a list of 6 possible pages to include in the app, based on the criteria I had supplied. I only had enough tokens to create 4 of the pages, so I decided to complete the last 2 during the next week.
Token Usage
You start with 2 million free tokens and are supposed to get another 1 million each week, but there is a cap on token usage of 1 million per week. You can probably see where this is going.
After my first week, the new tokens did not arrive, and I had to contact support on Discord. The support person couldn’t find my account, but the system refilled the tokens the next day.
I then managed to spend all 2 million tokens in the next session, which is odd because after rechecking the notification, it still said I had a limit of 1 million per week.
The following week, I still had a zero balance. The notification area of the screen looked different as well. The “1 million per week” text was gone. It simply said 0K/2M.
Problems
So just as I did before, I hopped onto the Discord channel to check the support thread.
I found another user asking about the missing tokens, and the support person had replied that the 1 million free tokens were only for the first 2 weeks. Just a free trial, essentially.
It never said that in the YouTube video I watched or on the signup pages. I also couldn’t find it in the Terms of Service or the Help documentation.
Community Issues
Another user had pointed out that after upgrading, their token count hadn’t properly increased from 1M to 6M. Support said that the 1 million “trial” tokens were replaced when upgrading to a paid plan. So instead of having 6M total tokens, the user was left with only 5M.
This term of service is also not mentioned in any of the documents or on the payment page itself.
Several users had issues with the service, including,
- Recurring charges and billing
- Incomplete tasks
- AI insists it did something it didn’t
- Token usage rates per task completed
- Slow or no response to support emails
There are more issues, but I don’t have the patience to cover them all at this point.
Possibly part of the problem is that there only appears to be a single member of staff answering all the support requests. After reading through many of the help requests, I started to wonder whether or not the company was actually just one person.
Conclusion
Many AI-based services have become available since the technology has become easier to interact with. There is perhaps some danger in signing up for an unvetted service. Though these could simply be the growing pains of a startup.
For now, I have decided to stop using the platform. I won’t be continuing with my app project. If I find a similar service, I might try that out instead.
1k Subscribers!
Well, it is time to celebrate.
The YouTube channel I started to support this blog has just recently hit a one-thousand-subscriber milestone.
The channel was created to host slideshows of the many picture galleries you find here on the site. I thought it would be an easy way for readers to view the content.
I think maybe after a month or so, one of my shorts got picked up on the feed and hit 62 thousand views overnight. That sent the channel to 100 subs, and I got a custom channel URL.
After that happened, I started thinking that maybe the channel could be something more than just an extension of this blog. I started putting more effort into my uploads, and I began adding long-form content.
Sometime last year, I also started using Twitch and did a few live streams while playing Dungeons and Dragons Online. I didn’t care so much for the platform, though, so I decided to refocus my efforts on YouTube.
I think my most popular videos have been the shorts from King’s Throne: Game of Lust; those bedroom Intimacy pics are quite alluring. I also saw a lot of traction with the Loverz series of videos.
I think this was the most contentious issue with the channel. Many of my videos were “age-restricted” by YouTube, which meant that few people on the platform were aware of my channel.
The majority of my traffic came from the embedded videos here on the blog and links I posted on Reddit communities.
That actually reminds me, I still have a bunch of short videos from some of the dating sims that didn’t get uploaded.
As I tried to post more “tame” content, I archived a lot of stuff on Google Drive. I will have to reconsider whether or not it would be worth uploading those videos in the future.
Anyway, I just want to offer my thanks to everyone who has supported both this blog and the Game Girls Gallery YouTube channel.
Where does your traffic come from?
I am curious how other blogs on WordPress have faired over the years. I have tried searching Google but have had little success in finding posted data on average blog traffic.
I started this blog in 2022, to host my Media after I ran out of space on my main blog (kasanje.home.blog). Since then, this site has quickly shifted from getting all of its traffic directly from my other blog to now achieving a 50/50 split on traffic.
These are my Referral stats for 2023. As you can see a significant portion of my traffic is from my established blog. From search engines, Yandex has actually outpaced Google Search. Bing and Yahoo remain in the minority as traffic sources.
Some links to my content are likely present on Reddit and I do also operate a YouTube channel. But search traffic remains a major source for this blog.
So, where do you get your traffic? What are your average views per day?
Drop me a comment.
I would greatly appreciate your insight or perspectives on this topic.
Funding my Pokémon Go
A co-worker turned me on to this app.
She uses it to get funds to buy Poke coins.
I’ve used it a bit over the years, and it’s not too intrusive, so worth the little effort needed. I get incubators mostly.
Get paid for answering short surveys and uploading receipts. You can use the same receipts that are submitted to MyPoints or Swagbucks, sort of a double-dip.
Download Google Opinion Rewards now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.paidtasks
Ugh
I ran into some problems with my phone and sadly had to do a factory reset. I’m back up and running, but I’ve lost my old keyboard layout, which is no longer supported.
Also lost is the Korean language input I was using. In the language input select menu, it shows X’s in boxes for Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
I downloaded G-board, but it really doesn’t match up to what I had.
Mostly, the problem is that I don’t know what the name is of the old keyboard.
I wish I had screenshots of my old keyboard. It was more compact and didn’t focus on the GUI much.
Switching languages was fast, just long-press the space bar and highlight the language. The G-board opens a window to select a language and lists stuff I don’t need. It’s bulky.
Fat Wallet Refugee 