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Tips for improving mini app UX

The best mini app builders optimize for building on mobile. A few general tips for making best-in-class mobile mini apps:Simplify screensMake buttons and touch targets biggerRemove unnecessary crypto jargon and UI complexityExample: Crowfund mini appHere's an example on how to improve a popular mini app, Crowdfund.Consider moving anything optional to after you complete the primary action, so in this case the comment would come after the donationMake the primary action -- adding a donation amo...

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Dev Meeting April 24 2025

Here are the current priorities: 1. CryptoWalletFocus is still growing usage — over 95,000 funded wallets!Second focus is on making mini apps better — new dev tools this week!Deprecating Frames v1 — exploring a date 2. SocialStorage RedenominationSignups for Free with social proof 3. ProtocolSnapchain migration — please move over to SnapchainLaunch Overview

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Mini apps that use USDC

Below are a list of 10 Farcaster mini apps that use USDC to simplify UX.Morpho - earn yieldTab - pay friends on FarcasterAmps - pay to boost postsGive - donate to charityeSIM - buy data eSIMPonder - prediction market bettingMegapot - decentralized lottery ticketsFarville - mint custom farmer avatarBetttr - sports bettingGitbot - bounties for AI agents and peopleNote: some mini apps may not be available in all regions.

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Build Farcaster mini apps with AI

If you're developing Farcaster Mini Apps and want them to integrate seamlessly with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, there's now a purpose-built tool for you: https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/llms-full.txt This file distills the entire Farcaster Mini App documentation—including setup, SDK usage, embeds, manifests, wallet support, and more—into a single LLM-ingestible format. It enables:Full-context RAG workflows with any GPT-style modelOffline use with tools like Cursor or local model...

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Improved Dev Tools

The new tools are focused on validating, previewing and publishing mini apps. We removed building the JSON builder since starter projects and other tools can help with that (more to come) and removed localhost support because it didn't work well and it was a source of frustration for devs, we recommend using a tunnel instead. We also now provide developers with analytics for mini apps. Developers can now see how many unique users, opens, transactions and unique users with a transaction.

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Snapchain is now live

After 8 months of work, Farcaster is now running on Snapchain. Warpcast and Neynar are reading and writing from Snapchain. Casting across apps is now faster, more reliable and more likely to scale as Farcaster grows.