We Built 3 AI-Powered Telegram Mini Apps. Here's What We Learned About Scaling Them.

Everyone's talking about AI agents. But most articles stop at the proof-of-concept. We actually shipped three production Telegram Mini Apps with AI components — a DCA investment bot, a social asset marketplace, and an AI interior design tool — each serving real users on TON blockchain. Here's what nobody tells you about scaling Telegram Mini Apps with AI in production. Why Telegram Mini Apps? Telegram has 950M+ monthly active users. Telegram Mini Apps (TMAs) run inside Telegram with zero install friction. Combine that with TON blockchain for payments and you get a distribution channel most web apps would kill for. But TMAs come with brutal constraints: No service workers — forget your PWA caching strategies Limited viewport — 400px width is your reality WebView quirks — different behavior on iOS vs Android vs Desktop Cold starts matter — users tap, wait 2 seconds, leave We learned all of this the hard way across three products. Case 1: TON DCA — Non-Custodial Investment Protocol The pr