Mini Apps

embed images are the most underutilized component of mini apps

they are the life blood of a good mini app since they provide an organic means for your app to get in front of eye balls and create natural points for community members to hang out

here's a breakdown of the mini word "brag" share card which is a good one

another great example that got a lot of distribution today and shot Crowdfund to the top of the trending list

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another great example that got a lot of distribution today and shot Crowdfund to the top of the trending list

https://crowdfund.seedclub.com/c/cmcamk1l500v6vy0tbg09o6vj

also for posterity here's the image without the opacity set to 0.8 lol

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interesting idea — an overlay button could be cool (liquid glass anyone?)

generally think opening up what sorts of media can be done here (e.g. images, arbitrary image dimensions) could be cool but they also create a ton of complexity for Farcaster clients to render in different scenarios (i.e. web, mobile, quote casts, threads)

How about an option to hide the miniapp action button, and dedicate all real estate to the image? Could use some other indicator to hint this is a miniapp (ie. clickable), like border, or border-bottom.

https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/docs/guides/sharing#dynamic-embed-images

great mini app btw!

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Thank you for the donation! It meant A LOT coming from you 🫶

I had no idea this was possible! Gotta find the docs

Thinking of building this for @scratch. What metadata do you think would be most fun? This is the current share card: scratch.gold

free to play scratchers. new cards everyday at 12pm MST.

https://scratch.gold

(there is no token)

I think I should be able to convert the final state of the scratch card into an image. Will look into this.

- stats for the last session (did they win something?)
- over time stats (all time wins, last week wins, streak)
- the actual final scratched card would be neat

Been having a lot of fun with dynamic images, but think I went too simplistic with this… just a general card image, not specific to user sharing (coming soon)

Probably needs an explanatory tag line? Call to action? Social proofing with user pfps?

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Working on the share links for specific action such as donating rn. Appreciate the feedback and the OP, forcing me to think a lot harder on these things

yes — main question is what is the user communicating by sharing?

did they just donate? what'd they donate to? how much did they donate?

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e.g. see the image in this cast

https://farcaster.xyz/deodad/0x35c9157a

when you share a mini app in a cast or dc

the big image that gets displayed over the button to open the mini app

Dumb question but humor me, what exactly is an embed image?

Check out the @neynar starter. @veganbeef has a nice example in there for making dynamic embed images with a user’s PFP.

it would be interesting if you created a miniapp and went through the process of adding embed images like the one you shared. and actually told us what you learned and how you did it

i have been building frames and miniapps since they started and this is still something that feels out of my reach. that's why i don't do it more

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Had this from day 1 on @tipdotmd and I agree it’s a great feature ! 
Can I ask if you see any improvements I could do ?

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Had this from day 1 on @tipdotmd and I agree it’s a great feature ! 
Can I ask if you see any improvements I could do ? https://farcaster.xyz/xr0am-/0x04d998e8

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Or maybe because we have a whole new breed of devs now and it isn't in the llm instructions?

In another life on Farcaster 6 months ago, this was overused with all allowance frames like for degen and moxie

Why can't devs find it now? fatigue?

We found one of the key problems mini app developers struggled with was creating personalized embed images for users when they shared the mini app on their timeline

If building with /neynar starter kit, it's as easy as adding `/share/[fid]` at the end of your mini app domain when sharing, we will automatically generate a personalized share image

See more about our starter kit here: https://neynar.mintlify.app/docs/create-v2-farcaster-frame-in-60s

if helpful, the starter kit makes it easy

if helpful, the starter kit makes it easy https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x574a7ee9