# Kickstarter

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

Kickstarter is a public-benefit crowdfunding platform where creators launch funding campaigns for creative projects — film, music, art, design, games, technology, publishing, and more — and backers pledge money to help bring them to life on an all-or-nothing funding model. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, it has channeled billions of dollars in pledges to hundreds of thousands of successfully funded projects. Kickstarter does not currently operate a public developer API program or developer portal; its GraphQL and REST endpoints power its own web and mobile clients and are not documented for third-party integration. The company does maintain an active open-source GitHub organization (including its iOS and Android app source), a help center, and a company blog. This API Evangelist profile tracks Kickstarter's public developer, security, and platform surface for discovery and enrichment.

## Kin Score — 13.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 12.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 61.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 21.9 (matched via tags).

## 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)

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

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Crowdfunding, Fundraising, Creators, Payments, Marketplace, Public Benefit Corporation

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