# Friend.ly

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/friendly/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 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).

## Tags

Company, Social, Q&A, Consumer, Mobile, Acquired, Defunct, Facebook

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