Houseparty

Houseparty was a face-to-face social networking and group video chat mobile app developed by Life on Air, Inc. Launched in 2016, it let up to eight friends video chat together in shared rooms and play built-in games such as Heads Up! and trivia. Epic Games acquired Houseparty in June 2019, and the service was discontinued in October 2021 with its team folded into Epic. Surfaced as a Greylock portfolio company, it is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical consumer-social profile; the product is defunct and publishes no developer API, documentation, or SDKs.

Houseparty is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Social, Video Chat, and Mobile.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 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: Houseparty
description: Houseparty was a face-to-face social networking and group video chat mobile app developed by Life on Air, Inc.
  Launched in 2016, it let up to eight friends video chat together in shared rooms and play built-in games such as Heads Up!
  and trivia. Epic Games acquired Houseparty in June 2019, and the service was discontinued in October 2021 with its team
  folded into Epic. Surfaced as a Greylock portfolio company, it is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical
  consumer-social profile; the product is defunct and publishes no developer API, documentation, or SDKs.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/houseparty/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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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
- Social
- Video Chat
- Mobile
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Reference
  name: Wikipedia — Houseparty (app)
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence