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, Podcasting, 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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17.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyPodcastingPodcast HostingMediaAudioMonetizationAnalyticsCreator ToolsAsia-Pacific

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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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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
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  public: false
  label: Unknown
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  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/36988299?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Podcasting
- Podcast Hosting
- Media
- Audio
- Monetization
- Analytics
- Creator Tools
- Asia-Pacific
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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- type: Website
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- 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
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  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence