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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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConsumerVideoUser-Generated ContentTalent CompetitionCommunityDefunctAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 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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Source (apis.yml)

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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- 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