Bix

Bix was an online talent-competition community founded in 2006 by Mike Speiser (co-founder of Epinions), where users created and judged web-based contests across karaoke, dance, photography, writing, beauty, and comedy. Backed by Trinity Ventures, the roughly 16-person startup grew to over one million users within months and was acquired by Yahoo! in November 2006; Yahoo later shut the service down. This API Evangelist profile documents Bix as a historical, defunct consumer company with no live website, developer platform, or API surface to enrich.

Bix is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Video, User Generated Content, and Talent Competition.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyConsumerVideoUser Generated ContentTalent CompetitionCommunityDefunctAcquired

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: bix
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bix.png
name: Bix
description: Bix was an online talent-competition community founded in 2006 by Mike Speiser (co-founder of Epinions), where
  users created and judged web-based contests across karaoke, dance, photography, writing, beauty, and comedy. Backed by Trinity
  Ventures, the roughly 16-person startup grew to over one million users within months and was acquired by Yahoo! in November
  2006; Yahoo later shut the service down. This API Evangelist profile documents Bix as a historical, defunct consumer company
  with no live website, developer platform, or API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bix/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- trinity-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: yahoo
x-acquired-year: '2006'
x-founded: '2006'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Video
- User Generated Content
- Talent Competition
- Community
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Video
- User-Generated Content
- Talent Competition
- Community
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence