Crowdery

Crowdery was a consumer retail and e-commerce startup backed by a16z, listed on the a16z investment list. Its product inverted the traditional retail sales model: shoppers voted on product designs from a curated set, Crowdery assembled a personalized marketplace from each shopper's top picks, and the highest-voted products were opened for pre-order at a discount. For brands it offered consumer feedback loops, pre-production demographic analytics, and pre-orders intended to de-risk manufacturing runs. The company never shipped a public API or developer program. As of July 2026 Crowdery appears defunct: the apex domain crowdery.com serves a Doteasy hosting placeholder page, www.crowdery.com still delegates to a decommissioned Heroku prelaunch application that returns 404, and no developer portal, documentation, GitHub organization, or API surface could be found. This profile is retained as a historical a16z portfolio record with no API surface to enrich.

Crowdery is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer, and Marketplace.

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

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Crowdery Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

InvestmentList
InvestmentList
 Archive
Archive

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: crowdery
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/crowdery.png
name: Crowdery
description: 'Crowdery was a consumer retail and e-commerce startup backed by a16z, listed on the a16z investment list. Its
  product inverted the traditional retail sales model: shoppers voted on product designs from a curated set, Crowdery assembled
  a personalized marketplace from each shopper''s top picks, and the highest-voted products were opened for pre-order at a
  discount. For brands it offered consumer feedback loops, pre-production demographic analytics, and pre-orders intended to
  de-risk manufacturing runs. The company never shipped a public API or developer program. As of July 2026 Crowdery appears
  defunct: the apex domain crowdery.com serves a Doteasy hosting placeholder page, www.crowdery.com still delegates to a decommissioned
  Heroku prelaunch application that returns 404, and no developer portal, documentation, GitHub organization, or API surface
  could be found. This profile is retained as a historical a16z portfolio record with no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crowdery/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Consumer
- Marketplace
- Crowdsourcing
- Pre-Order
- Defunct
- No API
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  name: Crowdery Website (parked placeholder)
  url: https://crowdery.com/
- type: InvestmentList
  name: a16z Investment List
  url: https://a16z.com/investment-list/
- type: Archive
  name: Crowdery homepage (Internet Archive, 2013)
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20131220212321/http://www.crowdery.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  name: Domain Security Probe
  url: security/crowdery-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io