The Mini Apps Competition community is growing, and the earlier you’re in, the more time you have to find your idea, test it, and show up on July 6 ready to build and ship. Curious where everyone is at right now. Vote below!

I just finished my first full implementation pass. Nothing polished to show yet, but I went through the whole cycle: gameplay, game logic, and Nimiq Mini App support. The biggest thing I learned is probably worth sharing, especially for people like me who are new to Android/iPhone-style app development. I started by building the game idea on desktop with Codex/GPT. That felt natural: browser, mouse, keyboard, local dev server. Mini App support was the last step in my plan because I treated it mostly as a competition requirement. After implementing it, I think I would reverse that order next time. The Nimiq Pay Mini App path is not just a checkbox at the end. It defines the real competition runtime: your web app runs inside the Nimiq Pay mobile app/WebView. That means the critical path is phone-first: touch controls, small screen layout, safe readable text, mobile viewport behavior, local-network testing, and Nimiq Pay’s connection/approval flow. The app can still be a normal web app on desktop, but if the competition target is Mini Apps, then the Mini App runtime should probably be tested early, not late. For a beginner, the trap is easy: you build a game on desktop using mouse and keyboard, everything feels fine, and then a few days before the deadline you realize the actual judged experience is a touchscreen phone flow. That could turn into a lot of unexpected high-intensity work. My takeaway: Start with the Nimiq Pay Mini App integration early. Then build the gameplay inside those constraints. P.S. actually codex warned me about this quite early. Its exact words when I started to make the implementation planning "Even a tiny placeholder scene is enough. The important thing is to verify the runtime, input model, and Nimiq Pay flow before the game becomes complex."

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Hello everyone! I’m Laura, the Project Coordinator for the Mini Apps Competition and i'm super excited to finally launch the Registration Dashboard and the first cycle with more than 17K+ to win! I'm located in Montreal, Canada. 👇 Drop a comment below here are you joining from and what made you join the competition? Can’t wait to see what you create 🚀