Beme

Beme Inc. (stylized "beme") was an American multimedia company founded in 2014 in New York City by YouTube filmmaker Casey Neistat and engineer Matt Hackett. Its mobile app, released on iOS in July 2015 and on Android in May 2016, let users capture and instantly share unedited two-to-eight-second videos without previewing or editing them, aiming at a more authentic alternative to curated social video. Beme raised a seed round backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Vayner/RSE, and CNN acquired the company in November 2016 in a deal reported at $25 million. The consumer app was shut down on January 31, 2017, and on January 25, 2018 the founders departed and Beme was folded into CNN Digital Studios. The company is defunct. Beme never published a public API, developer portal, or API documentation; its only public technical artifact is an open-source Go testing utility. The beme.com domain has since changed hands and now redirects to an unrelated company.

Beme is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Video, Social Media, Mobile Applications, and Media.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Design & Contract 1

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Lifecycle

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Build 3

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GitHubOrganization

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: beme
name: Beme
description: Beme Inc. (stylized "beme") was an American multimedia company founded in 2014 in New York City by YouTube filmmaker
  Casey Neistat and engineer Matt Hackett. Its mobile app, released on iOS in July 2015 and on Android in May 2016, let users
  capture and instantly share unedited two-to-eight-second videos without previewing or editing them, aiming at a more authentic
  alternative to curated social video. Beme raised a seed round backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Vayner/RSE, and
  CNN acquired the company in November 2016 in a deal reported at $25 million. The consumer app was shut down on January 31,
  2017, and on January 25, 2018 the founders departed and Beme was folded into CNN Digital Studios. The company is defunct.
  Beme never published a public API, developer portal, or API documentation; its only public technical artifact is an open-source
  Go testing utility. The beme.com domain has since changed hands and now redirects to an unrelated company.
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