Firstory

Firstory is a podcast hosting and monetization platform for creators, holding the leading share of the Mandarin-language podcast market and a growing presence across the Asia-Pacific region with over 14,000 shows. Creators upload an episode once and distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, KKBOX, YouTube, Amazon Music, Pocket Casts, and more than ten other players, then use AI Studio to auto-generate transcripts, summaries, highlights, and newsletter drafts. Firstory layers on second-by-second analytics, dynamic ad insertion, membership subscriptions, listener donations, cross-promotion, a personal website builder, the Flink universal link, and embeddable players. It does not publish a public developer API; this profile captures the company's public surface and infrastructure signals.

Firstory is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Podcasts, Podcast Hosting, Media, and Audio.

Firstory’s developer surface includes pricing, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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14.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Podcasts Podcast Hosting Media Audio Monetization Analytics Creator Tools Asia Pacific

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 14.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 6.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Podcasting 2.0 (open podcast namespace, measurement, hosting)	builds-on	19.7 (thin)	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Security Posture 1

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

Firstory Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: firstory
name: Firstory
description: Firstory is a podcast hosting and monetization platform for creators, holding the leading share of the Mandarin-language
  podcast market and a growing presence across the Asia-Pacific region with over 14,000 shows. Creators upload an episode
  once and distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, KKBOX, YouTube, Amazon Music, Pocket Casts, and more than ten other players,
  then use AI Studio to auto-generate transcripts, summaries, highlights, and newsletter drafts. Firstory layers on second-by-second
  analytics, dynamic ad insertion, membership subscriptions, listener donations, cross-promotion, a personal website builder,
  the Flink universal link, and embeddable players. It does not publish a public developer API; this profile captures the
  company's public surface and infrastructure signals.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/firstory/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/36988299?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Podcasts
- Podcast Hosting
- Media
- Audio
- Monetization
- Analytics
- Creator Tools
- Asia Pacific
tags_raw:
- Company
- Podcasting
- Podcast Hosting
- Media
- Audio
- Monetization
- Analytics
- Creator Tools
- Asia-Pacific
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://firstory.me
- type: Pricing
  url: https://firstory.me/en/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://firstory.me/en/blog
- type: Support
  name: Help Center
  url: https://help.firstory.me
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://firstory.me/en/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://firstory.me/en/privacy-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://studio.firstory.me/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://studio.firstory.me/login
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Firstory
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: llms.txt
  url: llms/firstory-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  name: Domain security probe
  url: security/firstory-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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