Lowkey

Lowkey (lowkey.gg) was a San Francisco social gaming platform that let players automatically record, review, and share their gameplay highlight clips across titles like League of Legends, VALORANT, and Among Us. Backed by Y Combinator and an a16z Series A, the company was acquired by Niantic (the developer of Pokemon GO) and the consumer product was subsequently discontinued. It was surfaced as an a16z portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub. An enrichment pass on 2026-07-20 found no live public developer surface: the lowkey.gg domain no longer resolves/serves, and there is no public API, OpenAPI, documentation portal, SDK, or MCP server to harvest.

Lowkey is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Gaming, Social, Video, and Esports.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyGamingSocialVideoEsportsContent CreationDefunctAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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: lowkey
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  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/lowkey.png
name: Lowkey
description: 'Lowkey (lowkey.gg) was a San Francisco social gaming platform that let players automatically record, review,
  and share their gameplay highlight clips across titles like League of Legends, VALORANT, and Among Us. Backed by Y Combinator
  and an a16z Series A, the company was acquired by Niantic (the developer of Pokemon GO) and the consumer product was subsequently
  discontinued. It was surfaced as an a16z portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub. An enrichment
  pass on 2026-07-20 found no live public developer surface: the lowkey.gg domain no longer resolves/serves, and there is
  no public API, OpenAPI, documentation portal, SDK, or MCP server to harvest.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lowkey/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Y Combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Acquired by Niantic; consumer product (lowkey.gg) discontinued. No live API surface as of 2026-07-20.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Gaming
- Social
- Video
- Esports
- Content Creation
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1