# Beme

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/beme/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 8.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 8.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Video, Social-Media, Mobile Applications, Media, Consumer, Defunct, Acquired

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