Games
- Hamster Kombat. A clicker where players run a virtual crypto exchange, buy upgrades and complete daily combos. Lesson: daily rituals (combo, cipher) and squads turned a tap loop into a habit.
- Notcoin. The original tap-to-earn, later converted to a token on TON. Lesson: a simple promise, league leaderboards and squad mechanics; the airdrop delivered trust for everything that followed.
- Catizen. A cat-merging idle game with real purchases through Stars and a token. Lesson: a genuine game loop with monetization from day one, not only airdrop farming.
- Blum. Hybrid of a game and a trading app with drop games and task systems. Lesson: tasks tied to partner channels are a growth and revenue engine.
- TapSwap. Tap-to-earn with boosts and a large referral tree. Lesson: referral trees need vesting and fraud checks, or they collapse under bots.
- Yescoin. Swipe-based earning with squads. Lesson: a different input mechanic can be a differentiator by itself.
- PixelTap, Dogs, Major. Variations on tasks, leaderboards and token distribution. Lesson: the format commoditized quickly; what retained users was depth beyond tapping.
Economics of this category are covered in tap-to-earn game economics; building one is our tap-to-earn service.
Finance and crypto
- Telegram Wallet. The built-in custodial wallet for TON, USDT and other assets, with P2P market and card purchases. Lesson: the reference UX for crypto in Telegram; design your payment flows around it.
- STON.fi. A DEX on TON with a Mini App frontend and TON Connect. Lesson: swaps can be a three-screen experience when the wallet is native.
- DeDust. Another TON DEX with liquidity pools. Lesson: Mini Apps are good enough for serious DeFi frontends.
- Tonkeeper web / xRocket. Wallet and payment bots with Mini App interfaces. Lesson: hybrid bot-plus-app products dominate in payments.
- Trading bots with terminals (various). Signal and copy-trading services that moved from text commands to Mini App dashboards. Lesson: a UI roughly triples the complexity users accept.
Building in this category: fintech and crypto solutions and TON development.
Commerce and services
- Food delivery and restaurant apps across the Gulf and Central Asia: menu, cart, order tracking in the bot. Lesson: order status messages in the chat replace an entire notification stack.
- Fashion and D2C storefronts launched from brand channels. Lesson: launch posts convert far better when the shop is one tap away rather than a website link.
- Ticketing and events with QR codes delivered in chat. Lesson: the ticket lives where the user will look for it.
- Booking apps for salons, clinics and coworking spaces with Stars or card deposits. Lesson: reminders through the bot cut no-shows.
See e-commerce solutions.
Communities and content
- Paid channels and memberships with subscription management inside a Mini App. Lesson: Stars subscriptions plus automatic invite links remove the manual work of paid communities.
- Course platforms with lessons, quizzes and progress. Lesson: completion rates rise when the course is inside the messenger people open 20 times a day.
- DAO and token-gated communities verifying wallets through TON Connect. Lesson: gating by on-chain assets is a few lines of code once TON Connect is in place.
See community solutions.
Utilities and tools
- Telegram Apps Center, translators, file converters, polls and internal team tools. Lesson: small utilities get real usage when they live inside the chat; many businesses start with an internal tool before a customer-facing app.
Patterns worth copying
- A referral link with a reward on both sides, tracked through
startappparameters. - A daily reason to return (streak, combo, drop, new content) announced by the bot.
- Telegram Stars for anything digital, with a clear first purchase under $5.
- Tasks that grow your channel and partners’ channels, verified automatically.
- One primary action per screen, mapped to Telegram’s Main Button.
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