Hey everyone, I'm Yusuf, co-founder at Vendo (YC S26). Berkeley honors grad at 19, Stanford MS, and now building open-source software that lets companies agentify their products: embedded agents your customers use to automate work, build views, and connect their tools. We're at 412 stars and I'm trying to push past 500 so more builders find it. If you have a GitHub account, this takes 10 seconds: open https://github.com/runvendo/vendo and hit the Star button in the top right. That's it. Live product if you want to poke at it: vendo.run Happy to answer anything about the stack, agents, or YC. And I'll return the favor, drop your repo below and I'll star it too. 🙏

Everyone did a great job building for about a month, and I genuinely appreciate the effort that went into the projects. But I think one important question was missing: Are we building something that will actually be beneficial to NiMiQ? Some of these projects might be great products for another chain or as standalone mini apps, but I’m not sure they necessarily solve a problem for NiMiQ or bring value to the ecosystem. I believe this is one of the reasons the games stood out and ultimately won. Even if another product had been selected, I believe we would still be having this conversation. You can build the perfect product, but you have to ask yourself: - Will it bring users to NiMiQ? - How often will people actually use it? - Will users be willing to pay for it? - How does it create value for NiMiQ beyond the initial launch? - How will we market it outside the existing NiMiQ community? For the games that were selected, I also think there are areas that need more thought, particularly unit economics. How exactly will these games make money for NiMiQ? Beyond the existing community, how will they attract new users to the mini-apps? And, more importantly, how can these products help attract more builders to build on NiMiQ? I think the bigger goal shouldn’t just be building something good. It should be building something that people will actually use, pay for, and that ultimately strengthens the NiMiQ ecosystem. That’s the kind of thinking I believe we need to take into the next round.

Cycle 1 is officially in the books. 62 Mini Apps submitted, all of them scored by the Nimiq Community Council, and the results are final. 🥁 Drumroll please… 🥇 1st place: Nimiq Space by @Harley NSpace An open multiplayer world where wallet-signed players can see who is online right now, paint a persistent 500x500 collaborative floor, and build rooms that sync live for everyone in them. 🥈 2nd place: NimJump by @Emre Alt An arcade game built around a minimal client-authority architecture, where the server replays every run itself instead of trusting the score the client reports. 🥉 3rd place: NimQuest by @mystiquemide A learn-and-prove Mini App with server-graded quizzes, where a completion only counts once you sign a one-time message in Nimiq Pay. Congratulations to all three. Winners will be contacted directly to arrange payout. To everyone else who submitted, thank you. You shipped something real in four weeks and set the bar high for future cycles. Every app you built is yours under the MIT License, so keep going with it. 🗓️ Cycle 2 opens August 24. Same $17,000 USDT prize pool, four Sip & Ship calls, submissions close September 18 at 23:59 UTC. If your app did not place this time, you can refine it and submit it again. Full breakdown on all three winners: https://www.nimiq.com/blog/mini-apps-competition-cycle-1-winner-announcement

Today is the day builders, we are LIVE! 🎉 The Mini Apps Competition submission portal is officially open for Cycle 1. You now have until July 31, 11:59 PM ET to build, ship, and submit your Mini App on the Nimiq Pay framework. 🔨 Build a Mini App on Nimiq Pay 📥 Submit anytime before July 31st 📱 Get featured directly inside Nimiq Pay 🏆 Compete for up to $10,000 USDT The clock starts now. 🔗 http://miniappscompetition.com/submit

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