Mini Apps

The fight for the mini app dev market share is on

Reddit, TG, Wechat, Warpcast (and other Farcaster clients)

LinkedIn also experiments with LinkedIn Games. Facebook had them back in the day

exactly, real interesting how fb had so many playable games, I spent years playing some too on a fb clone - vk.com

but games in both kind of died real quickly, within a few years?!

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no company owning the hardware has built mini app platforms, they build app platforms

Just finished the latest Acquired episode on Meta. Throughout it they commented on how Facebook has always wanted to be a platform company. But it seemed like there was 2 barriers.

1) it’s hard to be a platform on mobile when you don’t own the device. Since you have to divide willingness to pay between the App Store, yourself, and the apps using the platform.

2) it’s somewhat cannibalizing to their ad-business, since games/apps get social distribution instead of paying them to advertise.

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It doesn’t. We have done X to earn already over the last 10 years of Ethereum and it never sustained

Interesting breakdown. It seems that the main innovation of blockchain-specific games for users is play-to-earn. I wonder how far this mechanic can grow and if it will be enough to bring users back to in-app games.