Gilt Groupe

Gilt Groupe is a New York-based online retailer that pioneered the "flash sale" model in the United States, offering limited-time, members-only sales of discounted designer fashion, luxury goods, home items, and travel. Founded in 2007, Gilt was acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 2016 and subsequently sold to Rue La La in 2018, forming Rue Gilt Groupe; the gilt.com storefront remains operational. Gilt's engineering team was an influential early adopter of Scala and microservices and open-sourced roughly fifty JVM libraries (the "gfc" Gilt Foundation Classes, Handlebars-Scala, sbt plugins) to Maven Central under the com.gilt groupId. Gilt operated no public REST API at the time of this enrichment pass - its historical developer.gilt.com API and the github.com/gilt organization are both retired. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Matrix Partners and profiled in the API Evangelist network.

Gilt Groupe is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Retail, E-commerce, and Fashion.

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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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CompanyConsumerRetailE-commerceFashionFlash SaleScalaOpen Source

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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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Security Posture 1

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

Gilt Groupe Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Gilt Groupe
description: Gilt Groupe is a New York-based online retailer that pioneered the "flash sale" model in the United States, offering
  limited-time, members-only sales of discounted designer fashion, luxury goods, home items, and travel. Founded in 2007,
  Gilt was acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 2016 and subsequently sold to Rue La La in 2018, forming Rue Gilt Groupe; the
  gilt.com storefront remains operational. Gilt's engineering team was an influential early adopter of Scala and microservices
  and open-sourced roughly fifty JVM libraries (the "gfc" Gilt Foundation Classes, Handlebars-Scala, sbt plugins) to Maven
  Central under the com.gilt groupId. Gilt operated no public REST API at the time of this enrichment pass - its historical
  developer.gilt.com API and the github.com/gilt organization are both retired. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Matrix
  Partners and profiled in the API Evangelist network.
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x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Retail
- E-commerce
- Fashion
- Flash Sale
- Scala
- Open Source
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gilt-groupe-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gilt.com
- type: Packages
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
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  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence