Hike

Hike Private Limited is a New Delhi consumer internet company founded in 2011 by Kavin Bharti Mittal. It is best known for Hike Messenger, launched in December 2012 and at its peak one of India's largest homegrown messaging apps, which the company retired in January 2021 to pivot into the Rush Gaming Universe — a mobile-first skill-gaming platform that layered Web3 ownership and play-to-earn mechanics over roughly fourteen casual titles. Hike raised approximately $261M across seven rounds from investors including SoftBank, Tencent, Tiger Global and Polygon, and reached unicorn valuation in 2021. In September 2025, after India's Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act banned real-money gaming, the founder announced a complete wind-down of the company and of Rush. As of August 2026 hike.in still resolves but serves an HTTP 502 behind an expired certificate, and every developer-facing subdomain is NXDOMAIN; the company publishes no API, developer portal, or machine-readable contract.

Hike is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Messaging, Social, Gaming, and Mobile.

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5.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

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Company Messaging Social Gaming Mobile Consumer Web3 India Defunct

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Composite quality — 5.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

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 Surface 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: hike
name: Hike
description: Hike Private Limited is a New Delhi consumer internet company founded in 2011 by Kavin Bharti Mittal. It is best
  known for Hike Messenger, launched in December 2012 and at its peak one of India's largest homegrown messaging apps, which
  the company retired in January 2021 to pivot into the Rush Gaming Universe — a mobile-first skill-gaming platform that layered
  Web3 ownership and play-to-earn mechanics over roughly fourteen casual titles. Hike raised approximately $261M across seven
  rounds from investors including SoftBank, Tencent, Tiger Global and Polygon, and reached unicorn valuation in 2021. In September
  2025, after India's Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act banned real-money gaming, the founder announced a complete
  wind-down of the company and of Rush. As of August 2026 hike.in still resolves but serves an HTTP 502 behind an expired
  certificate, and every developer-facing subdomain is NXDOMAIN; the company publishes no API, developer portal, or machine-readable
  contract.
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1162265?v=4
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hike/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-secondary-market-listing: https://forgeglobal.com/hike_stock/
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
x-status: wound-down
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-08-22'
tags:
- Company
- Messaging
- Social
- Gaming
- Mobile
- Consumer
- Web3
- India
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/hike
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hike-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hike-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Hike Private Limited wound down in September 2025 after India's real-money gaming ban; hike.in now returns a Google
    Front End HTTP 502 behind a wildcard certificate that expired 2026-07-01, and every developer host that ever appeared
    in Certificate Transparency (platform.hike.in, hub.hike.in, im.hike.in, api.hike.in, developer.hike.in) is NXDOMAIN.
  evidence:
  - url: https://hike.in/
    status: 502
  - url: https://hike.in/openapi.json
    status: 502
  - url: https://hike.in/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 502
  - url: https://github.com/hike
    status: 200
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/hike_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-22'

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