Mini App devs:

What’s the #1 pain when going live? Which boilerplate should just disappear? What is stopping your from shipping your first app?

Drop your pain points below

Engineer @farcaster. Founder bountycaster.xyz

Ex Phantom, 0x Project engineer.

From Italy originally, currently live in NYC

i know y'all are already working on this but the whole manifest system is a headache

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yea I’ve done it like 5-7 times at this point and every time I fuck it up lol

to start, can’t do it on desktop so I’m copy pasting editing verifying in that weird box in the mobile app and emailing it to myself 

there is some domain tomfoolery

I have to do two manifests if I want to test it locally via ngrok

prob some other stuff and also I’m sure there are better ways to do it than I do it but the docs aren’t great either

can you decompose this headache into constituent parts for me?

at its simplest, the manifest is "put a signed JSON file on your web server". what gets in the way to make it so confusing and complicated?

(not suggesting this is actually easy and everyone is dumb, it's obviously confusing to many people and the tooling is not working. but I don't think the fundamental concept is super complex)