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Many thoughts on this.

There's a reason they're called *mini*. A mini app on it's own is unlikely to be a million dollar app today. Not until we get more users. Anyone expecting otherwise has never built in emerging markets before.

Do people love speculation and gambling? Duh this is crypto. Not a mini app problem.

I don't mean this in any offensive way to jc4p but quick weekend experiments have a higher chance of going viral than making you rich (I know because my projects are also weekend experiments). You need to grind, polish, and iterate to build a product people feel comfortable paying for enough that you can do it full time. But still we don't have enough users to warrant the grind for most folks. You need funding or another income source to survive until there's more consumer dry powder.

is there value to building mini apps? definitely and it's this: distribution or fast validation. Anything more is an outlier right now.

https://warpcast.com/sayangel/0x4e9ba26b

Mini apps = mini TAMs.

Doesn't mean they're not valuable. 

Have realistic expectations of mini apps or know you're grinding it out until more users get here.

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i got a couple of mini-app ideas actually!