Club Factory

Club Factory was a Chinese-owned cross-border e-commerce marketplace app that grew to roughly 70 million users globally, with India its largest market at around 40 million users. In June 2020 the Government of India banned Club Factory alongside 58 other Chinese apps citing data and privacy concerns, and the company withdrew from the Indian market shortly after. It was originally added to the API Evangelist network as a stub lead surfaced from Qiming's portfolio. Enrichment finds the company effectively defunct - clubfactory.com no longer serves a company site (it is parked for sale via Afternic nameservers and redirects to a /lander page), there is no live developer or API surface, no published SDKs, and no discoverable /.well-known documents.

Club Factory is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Marketplace, Retail, and Cross-Border Commerce.

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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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CompanyE-CommerceMarketplaceRetailCross-Border CommerceDefunct

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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: clubfactory
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/clubfactory.png
name: Club Factory
description: Club Factory was a Chinese-owned cross-border e-commerce marketplace app that grew to roughly 70 million users
  globally, with India its largest market at around 40 million users. In June 2020 the Government of India banned Club Factory
  alongside 58 other Chinese apps citing data and privacy concerns, and the company withdrew from the Indian market shortly
  after. It was originally added to the API Evangelist network as a stub lead surfaced from Qiming's portfolio. Enrichment
  finds the company effectively defunct - clubfactory.com no longer serves a company site (it is parked for sale via Afternic
  nameservers and redirects to a /lander page), there is no live developer or API surface, no published SDKs, and no discoverable
  /.well-known documents.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clubfactory/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- qiming
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Banned in India June 2020; company withdrew from its largest market. Domain clubfactory.com is parked for
  sale (Afternic nameservers, redirects to /lander). No live API or developer surface found during enrichment on 2026-07-18.
x-domain-status: parked-for-sale
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Marketplace
- Retail
- Cross-Border Commerce
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://clubfactory.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence