Kaixin001
Kaixin001 (开心网) is a Chinese social networking website launched in March 2008 by founder Cheng Bingao, a former senior executive at Sina. It rose to mass popularity in 2009-2010 on the back of viral social games such as "Friends for Sale" and "Parking Wars" before losing ground to Renren, Sina Weibo, and WeChat. After the parent company was acquired by a listed company in 2016, the founder departed and the business pivoted toward enterprise services and internet finance, marginalizing the original social network. Kaixin001 discontinued its Flash-based social gaming on November 18, 2023, and now persists mainly as a low-activity nostalgia platform. It surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-lead stub of Qiming and exposes no current public developer program, API, or documentation surface.
Kaixin001 is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Social, Social Network, Social Media, and China.
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- Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
- MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
- Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
- Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
- Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
- Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
- Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
- Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
- Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
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Source (apis.yml)
aid: kaixin001
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kaixin001.png
name: Kaixin001
description: Kaixin001 (开心网) is a Chinese social networking website launched in March 2008 by founder Cheng Bingao, a former
senior executive at Sina. It rose to mass popularity in 2009-2010 on the back of viral social games such as "Friends for
Sale" and "Parking Wars" before losing ground to Renren, Sina Weibo, and WeChat. After the parent company was acquired by
a listed company in 2016, the founder departed and the business pivoted toward enterprise services and internet finance,
marginalizing the original social network. Kaixin001 discontinued its Flash-based social gaming on November 18, 2023, and
now persists mainly as a low-activity nostalgia platform. It surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-lead
stub of Qiming and exposes no current public developer program, API, or documentation surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kaixin001/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- qiming
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct-social-network
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Social
- Social Network
- Social Media
- China
- Social Gaming
- Web 2.0
- Consumer Internet
tags_raw:
- Company
- Social
- Social Networking
- Social Media
- China
- Social Gaming
- Web 2.0
- Consumer Internet
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.kaixin001.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-19'
status: backfilled
pass: local-v1
note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-lifecycle:
state: shuttered
reason: domain-does-not-resolve
observed: '2026-09-27'
detail: The company's own domain returned no A or AAAA record when probed. This is an observation about the domain, not
a request from the company.
indexed: false
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