Prepare and launch your app built with XMTP

Use this guide to prepare your app for a successful launch. 🚀

Quality checklist

Before launching, review your app against this quality checklist. Meet the criteria in this checklist to help ensure you launch a best-in-class app built with XMTP.

Interoperable inbox

Your app provides an interoperable inbox with the following characteristics:

• New conversations created using your app should NOT have conversationId
• Display all conversations without conversationId
• [Bonus] Display all conversations with non-null conversationId, such as Lens.dev, GetConverse.app, etc.
• [Bonus] UI is intuitive and enables the user to understand the conversationID, if necessary
• [Bonus] Provide inbox filters. Do not use tabs.

Performance

• Use a local cache

Test your app

• Test your app against these test cases

UX

• Navigating between conversations is smooth, fast, and intuitive
• Sending messages works as expected
• New conversations can be created
• Conversation list is displayed and easily navigable
• [Bonus] Provides optimistic sending

Resolution

• Provides forward and reverse identity resolution support for ENS
• [Bonus] Provides forward and reverse identity resolution support for UNS, cb.id, .lens, Cyberconnect

Bugs and reliability

• Does not create duplicate conversations
• Does not show duplicate conversations. For duplicates, show the most recent conversation only.
• Does not crash frequently
• Does not have obvious or critical bugs

SDK and app versions

• Uses the latest XMTP client SDK. If not, which features is the app missing?
• Sets an appVersion value.

Attachments

• [Bonus] Provides image attachments
• [Bonus] Provides a GIF picker

Metrics

Enable your app to track privacy-preserving metrics to help you understand app usage. For example:

• # of active wallets: Wallets sending at least one message
• # of active conversations: Conversations with at least one message
• # of returning conversations: Conversations with at least one message per participant

Want more feedback?

Want more feedback after your team has run through the quality checklist?

Message prxshant.eth using xmtp.chat to get pre-launch feedback from XMTP Labs. Provide a link to a preview app, TestFlight, or demo video.

Launch your app

Way to go! 🎉 Here are some resources and ideas for promoting your app launch:

• Register for the Polygon dApp Store Kit, which enables developers to launch their own dApp stores and list any dApp, including their own. To learn more, see the dApp Store Kit Wiki.

• Check out these launch posts for apps built with XMTP:

  • Buttrfly
  • Coinbase Wallet
  • LensPort
  • Lenster
  • meTokens
  • Orb

• Need an XMTP logo for your announcement?

  • See the XMTP Brand Guidelines

• Tag the XMTP Labs team to help amplify your launch

  • @xmtplabs on Lens
  • @xmtp_ on Twitter
  • @xmtp on Farcaster
  • @xmtp_network on Threads

• Have your app added to Built with XMTP

  • Submit this form

• Have your project repo added to awesome-xmtp

  • Create a PR

• Create a commemorative POAP for your launch to reward early users

Keep in touch post-launch

• Keep in touch using the XMTP community platform that works best for you. This helps ensure that you hear about the latest SDK and content type releases, as well as upgrade and deprecation notices.

• Message prxshant.eth using xmtp.chat to share your app metrics. Let’s test hypotheses and learn together to help ensure interaction success and improve XMTP for all.