# Crowdery

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/crowdery/  
**Website:** https://crowdery.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-19 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).

## Security (1)

- **Crowdery Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer, Marketplace, Crowdsourcing, Pre-Order, Defunct, No API

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