# Canvas Networks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/canvas-networks/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Canvas Networks was a consumer social media and image-sharing startup founded by Christopher "moot" Poole (the founder of 4chan). Launched in private beta in early 2011 at canv.as, the platform let users share, annotate, and remix images on moderated, topic-based boards, positioning itself as a friendlier, more creative take on imageboard culture. It raised roughly $3.6M from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Founder Collective, Ron Conway, and Joshua Schachter, and later pivoted to the mobile drawing app DrawQuest. The company shut down on January 21, 2014, citing its inability to build a sustainable business model. It was surfaced as an a16z portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub; enrichment confirms it is defunct with no surviving developer, API, or documentation surface.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| 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, Social-Media, Image Sharing, Content Remixing, Consumer, Startup, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/canvas-networks/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.