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10 mini-apps to ask Wabi to build in your first week

I'm the author of Wabi Wiki, an unofficial guide to the Wabi AI assistant — not affiliated with Wabi.

Wabi's party trick isn't chatting. It's building: you describe a small tool in plain words, and Wabi builds it inside your chat thread — no app store, no code, no setup screens. The hard part is knowing what to ask for first.

Here are ten starter ideas, grouped by the threads where they actually get used. Each one comes from the full list of 20+ mini-app ideas on Wabi Wiki, and the exact prompt wording for each lives in the prompts library.

Travel

1. Trip capsule. A 3-day city plan with a shared checklist and daily nudges, so the plan lives where the group already talks.

2. Group itinerary. One plan the whole group chat can see and adjust — no more "wait, which version?" in a 40-message scrollback.

Health & habits

3. Weight tracker. Log weigh-ins in your health thread and watch the trend, instead of opening a separate app you'll forget by February.

4. Habit tracker. A daily check-in built around your actual routine, not a generic streak counter.

Family

5. Family schedule board. Everyone's week in one shared view — practices, pickups, appointments, all visible.

6. Language quiz for the kids. Short daily quizzes. Wabi's founder demoed a Japanese quiz for her daughter; swap in whatever your kid is learning.

Couples & friends

7. Restaurant list. A running list of places you want to try together, so "where should we eat?" stops being a 20-minute negotiation.

8. Movie-night poll. Group voting that ends the "what should we watch?" loop in one tap.

Home & productivity

9. Shared grocery list. Everyone adds items; nobody buys duplicates. The least glamorous mini-app here, and the one you'll use most.

10. Daily brief. Your top priorities from email, calendar and to-dos in one morning view.

How to ask so it works first time

Describe the outcome, not the technology. "A shared grocery list my family can add to" beats "a CRUD app with sync." If the first version is close but not right, keep talking in the same thread — Wabi iterates on what it built, so "add a checkbox for who's buying it" is a normal next message, not a rebuild.

Start with one thread and one mini-app. The point isn't to collect twenty tools; it's to find the one that quietly replaces a chore you repeat every week.

Wabi Wiki is an unofficial guide to the Wabi AI assistant — not affiliated with Wabi. Ideas above follow Wabi's own launch demos and official examples.

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