Kamcord

Kamcord was a San Francisco-based mobile technology company (Y Combinator, Summer 2012) founded by Aditya Rathnam, Kevin Wang, and Matt Zitzmann. It offered an iOS and Android SDK that let game developers embed in-app gameplay recording, live streaming ("appcasting"), and social sharing to YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and grew to roughly 200 million device installs. The company later pivoted to a short-form mobile screen-content social network ("shots"). In November 2017 Lyft acquihired most of the ~15-person team, including co-founders Rathnam and Wang, and Kamcord wound down its consumer app, live streaming, and developer SDK by the end of 2017. The company is DEFUNCT and no longer operates any developer program or API. The kamcord.com domain has since been repurposed by an unrelated lifestyle/blog publisher and is NOT associated with the original Kamcord.

Kamcord is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Mobile, Gaming, Video, and Live Streaming.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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

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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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name: Kamcord
description: Kamcord was a San Francisco-based mobile technology company (Y Combinator, Summer 2012) founded by Aditya Rathnam,
  Kevin Wang, and Matt Zitzmann. It offered an iOS and Android SDK that let game developers embed in-app gameplay recording,
  live streaming ("appcasting"), and social sharing to YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and grew to roughly 200 million device
  installs. The company later pivoted to a short-form mobile screen-content social network ("shots"). In November 2017 Lyft
  acquihired most of the ~15-person team, including co-founders Rathnam and Wang, and Kamcord wound down its consumer app,
  live streaming, and developer SDK by the end of 2017. The company is DEFUNCT and no longer operates any developer program
  or API. The kamcord.com domain has since been repurposed by an unrelated lifestyle/blog publisher and is NOT associated
  with the original Kamcord.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-notes: Acquihired by Lyft Nov 2017; SDK/API/consumer services shut down by end of 2017. kamcord.com is now an unrelated
  lifestyle blog. No live developer surface to enrich.
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Mobile
- Gaming
- Video
- Live Streaming
- SDK
- Social
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence