Build, Ship & Scale Your App
React Native + Django: Build, Ship, Scale & Market Your App Bundle (6 Guides)
Every guide, from first commit to the App Store, the web and automated social posting.
Instant PDF download. Six separate files, no unzipping required.
Written while shipping, not after
Everything I know about building, shipping and running indie mobile apps, collected across six months of evenings building Cap That and years of professional software engineering. Six guides, 146 pages, all of it production-tested against a real app with real users.
Every guide in the series
Guide 01 — Build a Full-Stack Mobile App (24 pages) React Native + Django + Railway + Cloudflare R2 + Google & Apple Sign-In + RevenueCat + Sentry + Resend. The complete stack from empty folder to deployed.
Guide 02 — Zero-Downtime on a $5/mo Budget (9 pages) Neon Postgres, a Fly.io cold standby, and a Cloudflare Worker that fails over and back automatically. Around three minutes of recovery time for roughly nothing per month.
Guide 03 — Launch, Legal and Visibility (23 pages) App Store submission, Google Play, domains, privacy policy, trademark, marketing page, ASO, GDPR, and a full launch checklist.
Guide 04 — Leverage Claude to Build Your App (26 pages) Prompt templates, debugging frameworks and code review checklists, written specifically for this stack.
Guide 05 — From Mobile App to Web App (31 pages) Next.js on a subdomain, the same Django backend, web auth with httpOnly cookies, Vercel, PWA, and deep links.
Guide 06 — Post Everywhere, Automatically (33 pages) Automated social publishing from your Django backend to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Shorts and Threads. Server-side video rendering, AI captions, token refresh that survives rotation, and idempotency so a double-fired cron never double-posts. Plus TikTok and X, and the pricing decision that costs $18/month if you get it wrong.
How to read it
Guides 01 and 02 are the foundation — build the stack, then make it resilient. After that, 03 through 06 work in any order depending on what you need next. Guide 06 assumes the backend and media storage from Guide 01.
What makes it different
Every dependency is pinned. Every snippet came out of a real codebase, not a blog post. And where something is genuinely a judgment call, the guides say so and explain the trade-off rather than pretending there's one right answer.
Built by Noah Davison — software engineer, founder of iNoahGuy LLC, and maker of Cap That (playcapthat.com).
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Noah Davison
I'm a software engineer who builds and ships apps on nights and weekends. These guides are what I wish existed while I was doing it: the real architecture, the pinned versions, and the traps that cost me whole evenings. Everything in them runs in production in an app with real users.