Friend.ly

Friend.ly was a social question-and-answer service that let people meet and connect by answering fun, get-to-know-you questions, launched around 2010 by a team led by Ed Baker. It raised roughly $5M from Lightspeed Ventures, Balderton Capital, SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), and a range of angels, and was acquired by Facebook (now Meta) on October 10, 2011 — primarily an acqui-hire, with the founding team moving to Facebook to work on growth and new products. The consumer service was wound down after the acquisition. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical portfolio-company record for Uncork Capital; the friend.ly domain is now parked and the company operates no public API, developer portal, or documentation surface.

Friend.ly is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Social, Q&A, Consumer, and Mobile.

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

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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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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Friend.ly
description: Friend.ly was a social question-and-answer service that let people meet and connect by answering fun, get-to-know-you
  questions, launched around 2010 by a team led by Ed Baker. It raised roughly $5M from Lightspeed Ventures, Balderton Capital,
  SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), and a range of angels, and was acquired by Facebook (now Meta) on October 10, 2011 — primarily
  an acqui-hire, with the founding team moving to Facebook to work on growth and new products. The consumer service was wound
  down after the acquisition. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical portfolio-company record
  for Uncork Capital; the friend.ly domain is now parked and the company operates no public API, developer portal, or documentation
  surface.
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x-acquired-by: Meta (Facebook)
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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- Social
- Q&A
- Consumer
- Mobile
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- Defunct
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maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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