Brandon Kessinger
Tools · two free, one paid

The tools the Factory ships with

Writing the app is the part you signed up for. These handle the other part: signing, TestFlight, submission, and the App Store's quiet failures. The releases I ship go through them.

33 daysto learn the eight steps from empty folder to app on sale, alone
2h 10mof hands-on work for the same eight steps with these tools
3 hoursLab Tycoon 1.0.2, submitted at 12:29pm and live by 3:22pm

appstore-doctor

free

For: you have an app and something is wrong with it, or you are about to submit and want to know what Apple will flag first.

Point it at your App Store Connect account and it reports what is actually true, rather than what the web interface implies. It catches the failure that cost me eighteen days: a version reading WAITING_FOR_REVIEW while no live submission holds it.

It only ever issues GET requests. It cannot change a listing, cancel a submission or touch a price, which is what makes it safe to hand to an agent.

Source on GitHub

ios-release-kit

free

For: you already have a project, and you release it over and over.

The fastlane lanes behind every release I ship. Signing that survives a certificate wipe, TestFlight distribution, submission with in-app purchases attached the way Apple actually requires, and the analytics report requests you have to create before launch.

Each lane exists because the manual version of it failed at least once on a real release.

Source on GitHub

ios-bootstrapper

For: you have never shipped an app, and you want a build on TestFlight this week.

You start with an empty folder and a description of the app you want. It scaffolds the project, wires the release pipeline in from the start, sets up signing, and gives Claude Code the skills to walk you through every step to the App Store. Your first TestFlight build takes about an evening.

Terminal recording: new-app generates an iOS project that builds and passes its tests before any code is written

The run above is real: 23 files, a generated project, and a green test suite before a line of your code exists.

You will need an AI coding agent alongside it: Claude Code, Cursor, or any tool that reads an AGENTS.md. Everything else on this page ships inside it.

Founder pricing
$49 list $149

Ten seats. Your first build on TestFlight in an evening, not a week. Every update forever, and you tell me what to build next.

Buy ios-bootstrapper

Checkout runs on Polar, the merchant of record, so taxes are handled. Delivery is automatic: your GitHub account is invited to the private repo the moment payment clears. Questions first? Email me.