Lytmus

Lytmus was a technical-interview and coding-assessment platform for hiring engineers. Candidates worked live in a browser-based, fully functional Ubuntu virtual machine (Terminal, editors, Chrome) so recruiters could run pair-programming phone screens and evaluate real coding skills across languages and full-stack scenarios, priced in per-session plans. Surfaced as a portfolio company of a16z and added to the API Evangelist network as a lead. Enrichment probing (2026-07-20) found no developer portal, API, documentation, or ./.well-known surface; the company was acquired by GitHub in 2019 and its product has since been shut down, so lytmus.io now serves stale content and lytmus.com is a parked, for-sale domain. No API artifacts exist to enrich.

Lytmus is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hiring, Recruiting, Technical Interviews, and Coding Assessment.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
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

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: lytmus
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  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/lytmus.png
name: Lytmus
description: Lytmus was a technical-interview and coding-assessment platform for hiring engineers. Candidates worked live
  in a browser-based, fully functional Ubuntu virtual machine (Terminal, editors, Chrome) so recruiters could run pair-programming
  phone screens and evaluate real coding skills across languages and full-stack scenarios, priced in per-session plans. Surfaced
  as a portfolio company of a16z and added to the API Evangelist network as a lead. Enrichment probing (2026-07-20) found
  no developer portal, API, documentation, or ./.well-known surface; the company was acquired by GitHub in 2019 and its product
  has since been shut down, so lytmus.io now serves stale content and lytmus.com is a parked, for-sale domain. No API artifacts
  exist to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lytmus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Acquired by GitHub in 2019 and shut down; no live API surface as of 2026-07-20.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Hiring
- Recruiting
- Technical Interviews
- Coding Assessment
- Developer Tools
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
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