Bop.fm

Bop.fm was a music-sharing and playlist startup that let people share and play individual songs across streaming services — building a link for a track that would resolve to whichever service (Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud, YouTube, Rdio) each listener used. Founded out of Y Combinator, it reportedly reached several million monthly listeners and raised roughly $2M before being acquihired by identity-protection company LifeLock in October 2015, at which point the website, mobile apps, and embedded players were shut down. The company is defunct: the bop.fm domain no longer serves the product (it now redirects to an unrelated parked site) and no developer portal, documentation, or API surface remains online. This profile is retained as a historical record within the API Evangelist network; there are no live API artifacts to enrich.

Bop.fm is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Music, Music Streaming, Playlists, and Music Discovery.

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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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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: bopfm
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/bopfm.png
name: Bop.fm
description: 'Bop.fm was a music-sharing and playlist startup that let people share and play individual songs across streaming
  services — building a link for a track that would resolve to whichever service (Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud, YouTube, Rdio)
  each listener used. Founded out of Y Combinator, it reportedly reached several million monthly listeners and raised roughly
  $2M before being acquihired by identity-protection company LifeLock in October 2015, at which point the website, mobile
  apps, and embedded players were shut down. The company is defunct: the bop.fm domain no longer serves the product (it now
  redirects to an unrelated parked site) and no developer portal, documentation, or API surface remains online. This profile
  is retained as a historical record within the API Evangelist network; there are no live API artifacts to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bopfm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Acquihired by LifeLock in October 2015 and shut down; domain no longer serves the product. No live developer
  surface as of 2026-07-18.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Music
- Music Streaming
- Playlists
- Music Discovery
- Consumer
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bop-fm
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bop-fm
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