Koo

aid: koo
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
  gated: private
  gated_source:
  - x-api-posture
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/koo.png
name: Koo
description: Koo was an Indian microblogging and social networking platform built by Bombinate Technologies, positioned as
  a multilingual, India-first alternative to Twitter/X with support for Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and other regional
  languages. Backed by Accel and Tiger Global, it grew during the 2021 Indian social-media policy disputes before ceasing
  operations in 2024 after funding and acquisition talks fell through. Koo never published a public developer portal, API
  documentation, or client SDKs, and its domain no longer serves a site — this profile is retained as a verified-defunct historical
  record rather than an active API provider.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/koo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Company ceased operations; domain is parked and no public API surface was ever published.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- tiger-global
x-tier: defunct
x-tier-reason: Company ceased operations; domain is parked and no public API surface was ever published. Enrichment pipeline
  verified this on 2026-07-19 and produced no API artifacts by design.
x-status: defunct
x-verification:
  probed: '2026-07-19'
  findings:
  - https://www.kooapp.com/ and https://kooapp.com/ return HTTP 404 serving a Wix "ConnectYourDomain Error" placeholder —
    the domain resolves to Wix nameservers (ns2/ns3.wixdns.net) but no site is connected.
  - No developer, docs, or api subdomain resolves (developers./docs./api.kooapp.com all fail to connect), and none appears
    anywhere in the Wayback Web Archive index across ~50,000 archived kooapp.com URLs — only www.kooapp.com and the apex were
    ever captured.
  - All five probed /.well-known/ paths return 404 (see well-known/koo-well-known.yml).
  - GitHub org koo-app exists but has 0 public repositories. Parent-company org bombinatetech has 16 public repositories,
    all forks of general-purpose open source libraries (tus/tusd resumable upload, Elixir tooling, mobile UI components) —
    no Koo API, SDK, or client library.
  - No packages matching Koo on npm; no first-party SDK found on any package registry.
  - Last Wayback capture of a live Koo site is dated 2024-10-30.
  conclusion: No API, no developer portal, no SDKs, no event surface. No API artifacts were generated, as fabricating them
    would misrepresent a company that never had a public API program.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Social
- Social Network
- Microblogging
- India
- Consumer
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- Company
- Social
- Social Networking
- Microblogging
- India
- Consumer
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/koo-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kooapp.com/
  x-status: parked
  x-http-status: 404
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence