A specification for building mini apps that work with QR codes and open web standards.
Soft Apps
The future of the web relies on open standards, flexible systems, interoperable tools, and first and foremost a focus on the human being.
Webxdc: mini apps shared in a chat
Secure mini apps for chats. No internet access, no tracking, no servers.
GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X
Apple JUST quietly announced something that’s a lot BIGGER than it looks: "the Mini Apps Partner Program"Apple is admitting that the future of software is embedded, lightweight, vertical mini-apps distributed inside bigger appFor founders who want to make $$ building apps:… pic.twitter.com/jZz7dU6w07— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) November 14, 2025
Introducing Web Applets: build your first AI-native app · Luma
Rupert here - I'll introduce you to the Web Applets open standard & SDK, and how to use it to create rich, graphical client-side apps that can be used by both…
Introducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi
Apple Announces App Store Mini Apps Partner Program
Apple today announced the App Store Mini Apps Partner Program, allowing apps that host mini apps and mini games to support In-App Purchases. The program is designed for developers who host mini apps and games within a larger, native app. Today, we're introducing the Mini Apps Partner Program, which expands on the App Store's ongoing support for apps that offer mini apps. Mini apps are self-contained experiences that are built using web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript.
Isolated Web Apps · Issue #799 · mozilla/standards-positions
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification Title: Isolated Web Apps Specification or proposal URL (if available): Explainer URL (if available): https://github.com/W...
Steven Vandevelde (@tokono.ma)
Looks like what I've been building is quite similar to what the foundation of Patchwork-26 is. Lots of "tiny apps" (atomization of software, loosely coupled) + just the web. Local-first and where everything revolves around the content (data-first, can use preferred UI/view). Happy to see this! 🎉
The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
Open Responses
This is the standardization effort I've most wanted in the world of LLMs: a vendor-neutral specification for the JSON API that clients can use to talk to hosted LLMs. Open …
Antler - QR scanner built for IRL hangouts
Explore local events and places with our QR code scanning mobile browser.
WICG/isolated-web-apps
Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.
WICG/isolated-web-apps
Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.
Can a cozyweb be built on open protocols? I think so. Signal is the harbinger here. DeltaChat shows how to do it over an open network (email).
Gordon
I see selection pressures pushing us toward a barbell distribution: Slopnet: open public protocols hosting a riotous ecology of AIs. Cozyweb: closed commons with semipermeable boundaries.