Rapid Launch and Improvement of Customer Touchpoints: The Potential of LINE Mini Apps Supporting Business Growth
Evolany Inc.'s CSO Masashi Nagai will speak at LINE Yahoo's "Hello Friends! W!th LINE Yahoo" event on May 12. He will discuss the potential of LINE Mini Apps, empowered by AI and 'vibe coding,' to rapidly establish and continuously improve customer touchpoints, leveraging the widespread LINE platform in Japan for business growth.
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Masashi Nagai, Director CSO of Evolany Inc., will take the stage on May 12th at LINE Yahoo's event "Hello Friends! W!th LINE Yahoo." He will discuss the potential of LINE Mini Apps, which are creating "customer touchpoints that are used" by more deeply utilizing LINE Official Accounts, under the theme "AI x Vibe Coding: How LINE Mini App Development Has Evolved." The session will explore how to make customers members, encourage repeat visits, and achieve business results on LINE, which is the most realistic implementation destination in Japan for the global trend of super apps and chat UIs.
Background
There is an accelerating trend of generating mini-programs from natural language prompts and driving purchases/payments through conversations with AI. Specifically, this includes Tencent in China, and Shopify and X (Xchat) in the United States. If functions that create experiences and commercial flows from such super apps and chat UIs were to be implemented in Japan, there is no other platform as pervasive as LINE.
What is important for businesses is not just to create something, but for it to continue to be used as a customer touchpoint. Evolany has provided "anybot" as a platform to launch LINE Mini Apps with no-code and rapidly improve them even after launch. This is because we believe that LINE Official Accounts and LINE Mini Apps are not "create and done," but rather a "Growth OS" on LINE that continuously maintains and improves customer touchpoints.
Session Overview
The session will introduce LINE Mini App development with AI and 'vibe coding' through demonstrations.
We will show the differences from mock generation by general-purpose AI, as well as advancements in development speed and connectivity. Furthermore, we will discuss how to create a state that connects to customer data, and how businesses should establish and quickly grow customer touchpoints starting from LINE.
Date: May 12 (Tuesday) 15:40 - 16:00
Place: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza
Details: https://pages.lycbiz.com/hellofriends2026/
Speaker
Masashi Nagai
Director CSO, CRO, Evolany Inc.
Advertising Planning and Sales, Recruit Co., Ltd.
Head of LINE-related tools, Hakuhodo DY ONE Co., Ltd., Director, Torchlight Inc.
Founded a system development company and merged with Evolany Inc.
"Hello Friends! W!th LINE Yahoo" Event Details
Event Name: Hello Friends! W!th LINE Yahoo
Date and Time: May 12 (Tuesday) - 13 (Wednesday), 2026, 11:00 - 17:00 (Reception starts 10:40)
Venue: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building (2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023)
Details/Application: https://lin.ee/TeBTbUP
"anybot" Service Overview
Over 17,000 companies have implemented it. It is a LINE Mini App and chatbot development tool that realizes automated customer service on LINE. All functions can be built with no-code, enabling implementation at low cost and short delivery times. It adds various functions to existing platforms such as LINE, Messenger, and email, providing an environment where customers can use services more conveniently.
Evolany Inc.
https://evolany.com/
An IT venture founded in Yokohama in 2018. It solves customer issues and promotes digitalization with its main service, anybot. It also contributes to society by working on regional revitalization and IT human resource development. It has been certified as a "Technology Partner" by LINE Yahoo Inc. for technical support in introducing marketing solutions and API-related services centered on "LINE Official Account," "LINE Ads," "LINE de Oubo," and "LINE Mini App."
Contact for release inquiries
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Background
There is an accelerating trend of generating mini-programs from natural language prompts and driving purchases/payments through conversations with AI. Specifically, this includes Tencent in China, and Shopify and X (Xchat) in the United States. If functions that create experiences and commercial flows from such super apps and chat UIs were to be implemented in Japan, there is no other platform as pervasive as LINE.
What is important for businesses is not just to create something, but for it to continue to be used as a customer touchpoint. Evolany has provided "anybot" as a platform to launch LINE Mini Apps with no-code and rapidly improve them even after launch. This is because we believe that LINE Official Accounts and LINE Mini Apps are not "create and done," but rather a "Growth OS" on LINE that continuously maintains and improves customer touchpoints.
Session Overview
The session will introduce LINE Mini App development with AI and 'vibe coding' through demonstrations.
We will show the differences from mock generation by general-purpose AI, as well as advancements in development speed and connectivity. Furthermore, we will discuss how to create a state that connects to customer data, and how businesses should establish and quickly grow customer touchpoints starting from LINE.
Date: May 12 (Tuesday) 15:40 - 16:00
Place: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza
Details: https://pages.lycbiz.com/hellofriends2026/
Speaker
Masashi Nagai
Director CSO, CRO, Evolany Inc.
Advertising Planning and Sales, Recruit Co., Ltd.
Head of LINE-related tools, Hakuhodo DY ONE Co., Ltd., Director, Torchlight Inc.
Founded a system development company and merged with Evolany Inc.
"Hello Friends! W!th LINE Yahoo" Event Details
Event Name: Hello Friends! W!th LINE Yahoo
Date and Time: May 12 (Tuesday) - 13 (Wednesday), 2026, 11:00 - 17:00 (Reception starts 10:40)
Venue: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building (2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023)
Details/Application: https://lin.ee/TeBTbUP
"anybot" Service Overview
Over 17,000 companies have implemented it. It is a LINE Mini App and chatbot development tool that realizes automated customer service on LINE. All functions can be built with no-code, enabling implementation at low cost and short delivery times. It adds various functions to existing platforms such as LINE, Messenger, and email, providing an environment where customers can use services more conveniently.
Evolany Inc.
https://evolany.com/
An IT venture founded in Yokohama in 2018. It solves customer issues and promotes digitalization with its main service, anybot. It also contributes to society by working on regional revitalization and IT human resource development. It has been certified as a "Technology Partner" by LINE Yahoo Inc. for technical support in introducing marketing solutions and API-related services centered on "LINE Official Account," "LINE Ads," "LINE de Oubo," and "LINE Mini App."
Contact for release inquiries
Inquiry form
Please inquire from the inquiry type "About Press Release."