ffrree (GitHub organization "Free") was an early-stage, Slow Ventures-backed mobile software company active around 2015-2016. Its only public engineering footprint is a GitHub organization of eight repositories - seven of them forks of third-party iOS and backend libraries (AFNetworking, jot, TheAmazingAudioEngine, protobuf-objc, redis-py, slack) plus an original CocoaPods "Specs" podspec mirror - with all repository activity ceasing in 2016. The company is defunct: ffrree.com now serves a GoDaddy/Afternic domain-for-sale parking lander, and there is no product, developer portal, documentation, SDK, or API surface of any kind. Retained in the API Evangelist network as a verified dead lead rather than deleted, so the slug is not re-researched from scratch.
ffrree is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Mobile, iOS, and Portfolio Lead.
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aid: ffrree
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
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/ffrree.png
name: ffrree
description: 'ffrree (GitHub organization "Free") was an early-stage, Slow Ventures-backed mobile software company active
around 2015-2016. Its only public engineering footprint is a GitHub organization of eight repositories - seven of them forks
of third-party iOS and backend libraries (AFNetworking, jot, TheAmazingAudioEngine, protobuf-objc, redis-py, slack) plus
an original CocoaPods "Specs" podspec mirror - with all repository activity ceasing in 2016. The company is defunct: ffrree.com
now serves a GoDaddy/Afternic domain-for-sale parking lander, and there is no product, developer portal, documentation,
SDK, or API surface of any kind. Retained in the API Evangelist network as a verified dead lead rather than deleted, so
the slug is not re-researched from scratch.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ffrree/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-website-status: parked-for-sale
x-enrichment-status: dead-lead
x-enrichment-note: 'Enrichment 2026-07-20 (re-verified, evidence strengthened): ffrree.com resolves to Afternic nameservers
(ns1/ns2.afternic.com) on GoDaddy parking IPs and serves a JS redirect to a for-sale lander; DNS has a null MX ("0 .") and
"v=spf1 -all", i.e. the domain sends no mail. Wildcard DNS makes api./developer./docs. subdomains resolve to the same parking
IPs, and every path - including /.well-known/* and /openapi.json - returns a soft-200 parking page, so none of those are
real artifacts and none were saved. The host does serve a genuine /llms.txt, but it is GoDaddy''s domain-listing blurb,
not a company or API document, so it was deliberately NOT captured as an LLMsTxt artifact. NEW this pass: the GitHub organization
github.com/ffrree ("Free", created 2015-02-02, blog https://ffrree.com) does exist and is verifiably this company, but 7
of its 8 public repos are forks of third-party libraries and the last push was 2016-09-08 - no first-party product code,
no OpenAPI, no spec to ground any artifact on. No npm or PyPI packages exist under this name. Domain-security probing was
deliberately skipped because it would measure GoDaddy''s parking infrastructure, not the company. No artifacts could honestly
be searched, generated, or derived. No fabrication.'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-09-15'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Mobile
- iOS
- Portfolio Lead
- Dead Lead
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://ffrree.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/ffrree
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
x-status: defunct
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