Two college athletes are making $19K/mo with an app they built in Rork | Rork
Two college athletes are making $19K/mo with an app they built in Rork
$10K
First Month Revenue
$17K/mo
Current Revenue
118K
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Braylin Byrd runs track at Texas Tech. His co-founder Christian Rac runs track at Texas Southern - eight hours apart. They were high school teammates who started hustling together at 14: failed Shopify stores, thousands lost on bad products, $6,000 burned on day trading, cutting hair on the side. Nothing stuck. Then they stopped guessing what people wanted and built something from what they already knew.
We tried everything - dropshipping, day trading, cutting hair. Apps were the most successful thing we ever did.
With 112K Instagram followers on Braylin's account alone - plus 42.5K on Christian's - built entirely on organic track content, and DMs flooding in daily asking for training advice, the audience was already there. They just needed the product. Apps kept trying to sponsor them. That's when it clicked: why don't we just build our own?
In January 2026, they launched 3AK Track - the entire app built with Rork, zero code. It hit $10,000 in revenue in its first month. Now it's doing $17,460 in the last 28 days - verified by RevenueCat - and still climbing. On top of that, their Shopify store selling training programs pulls in $100–200 per day in passive income.
3AK Track
Your All-in-One Running Tool
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From Track Stars to App Builders
Braylin and Christian had been growing their social media for years - documenting their athletic journey from Texas high school tracks to Division I programs at Texas Tech and Texas Southern, sharing training content, building an audience purely on organic reach. By the time they were ready for an app, they had over 150K followers combined and DMs flooding in every day asking the same question: "What's your training plan?"
They saw a bunch of apps trying to sponsor them - and thought, why don't we build our own? They discovered Rork and went all in, spending 8–10 hours a day teaching themselves to build with it and using ChatGPT to debug issues along the way. The entire app was built in Rork - zero outside help, zero coding experience.
The result: an all-in-one running and fitness app with AI-powered stride analysis, smart calorie tracking, custom workout programs, daily challenges, and a built-in AI coach. Not bad for guys who'd never written a line of code.
The Content Machine
Track and field is one of the most underserved niches in fitness content. There are fitness creators everywhere, but almost nobody making content specifically for track athletes. Braylin and Christian spotted that gap early and filled it before anyone else showed up.
Their content strategy is built on what they know best - their own athletic performance. The hook that stops people scrolling? Real results you can't fake. Braylin dropped his 100-meter time from 11.4 seconds to 10.2 seconds in a single year. That kind of transformation is visual, shareable, and instantly credible.
Even before the app launched, their training content was driving the kind of engagement most brands would kill for. This post - "Literal Cheat Code" - pulled 3.3K likes and 34 comments.
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May 14, 2025