Joyride

Joyride was a mobile audio service that made driving more fun and more interesting, offering an in-car audio/entertainment experience for drivers and passengers. Founded by Jeff Chen (co-founder & CEO) and James Zhang (co-founder & CTO), the company raised a seed round from Cowboy Ventures and was subsequently acquired by Google, marking a successful exit. As a consumer mobile application it exposed no public developer API surface, and the product is no longer independently operated following the acquisition. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network for portfolio-graph completeness rather than as an active API provider.

Joyride is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Audio, Mobile, and Automotive.

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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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CompanyConsumerAudioMobileAutomotiveEntertainmentAcquired

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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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: joyride
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/joyride.png
name: Joyride
description: Joyride was a mobile audio service that made driving more fun and more interesting, offering an in-car audio/entertainment
  experience for drivers and passengers. Founded by Jeff Chen (co-founder & CEO) and James Zhang (co-founder & CTO), the company
  raised a seed round from Cowboy Ventures and was subsequently acquired by Google, marking a successful exit. As a consumer
  mobile application it exposed no public developer API surface, and the product is no longer independently operated following
  the acquisition. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network for portfolio-graph completeness rather than as
  an active API provider.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/joyride/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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x-status: acquired
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Audio
- Mobile
- Automotive
- Entertainment
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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