On September 21, 2016, WeChat released small program private beta, on November 3 to developers public beta, on January 9, 2017 WeChat small program officially open to C users. As an important part of Tencent’s ecosystem, the development wave of WeChat small program has swept the whole Internet circle, and it has realized the dream of application “at your hands” in a light application and high experience way. As of July 11, 2018, the number of small programs reached 1 million, with more than 1.5 million small program developers covering more than 200 industry segments and 200 million daily active users.

When WeChat applet was still in private beta, SegmentFault cooperated with Aifan to hold the first civil mini program hackathon in Guangzhou.



The small program hackathon held in the park of WeChat headquarters in Guangzhou during the National Day of 2016.

In July and August 2018, Baidu and Alipay also launched their own mini program platforms. Baidu mini program is mainly based on Baidu APP super content ecology, through Baidu’s flow capacity and AI ability to provide empowerment. After the official launch of Alipay small program to lock the positioning in the business and life service field, its mission is to let Alipay from a payment tool to provide a variety of services in the scene platform. More and more business opportunities and ecology are also occurring in small programs.

In December 2018, the “WeChat small program Wegeek Hackathon” sponsored by WeChat and undertaken by SegmentFault was officially launched in Beijing. This Hackathon was aimed at small program developers and enthusiasts around the world, aiming at innovating and developing small programs through the WeChat small program platform. Build small program ecology together! At the same time, WeChat’s official small program developer service platform – “WeChat Geek Wegeek” has officially entered SegmentFault, which is recommended for community developers to pay attention to.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, SegmentFault also officially launched the small program development channel to help the small program developer ecology. In the small program channel on the home page, developers can get technical content and information related to small programs more quickly. We are also welcome to contribute more small program related quality content, you can also pay attention to the small program label, more quickly get the relevant content recommendation.

A link to the

  • SegmentFault applet development channel
  • WeChat webgeek Hackathon website
  • WeChat small program development document
  • Pay treasure small program development document
  • Baidu intelligent small program development documents