# Hornet

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hornet/  
**Website:** https://hornet.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Hornet is a queer social networking platform operated by Queer Networks, Inc., serving the global LGBTQ+ community with more than 100 million users worldwide. The Hornet app combines profiles, feeds, live video, one-on-one video chat, messaging, and location-based discovery into a privacy-first digital home for gay men and the broader queer community. Backed by 500 Global (and previously part of BlueCity Holdings), Hornet operates as a consumer social/media company rather than an API provider — it publishes no public developer API, OpenAPI, or SDKs — so this API Evangelist profile captures the company's public identity, policy surface, and domain-security posture rather than developer artifacts. Hornet is number one in several key markets including France, Brazil, Turkey, and Taiwan, and monetizes through premium subscriptions and queer-audience advertising.

## Kin Score — 11.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

## 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).

## Security (1)

- **Hornet Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Social, Social Network, Dating, LGBTQ, Community, Media, Mobile Apps, Consumer

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