Milk *

Milk, Inc. was a mobile application development lab founded in 2011 by Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, and Jeff Hodsdon, and backed by GV (Google Ventures). Its only shipped product was Oink, an app for rating and discovering real-world things. Milk shut down Oink in early 2012 and the product team was acqui-hired by Google in March 2012, after which the company ceased to exist. It is defunct with no active website, developer portal, SDKs, or public API surface. This profile was added to the API Evangelist network as a GV portfolio lead; enrichment confirmed there is no API to catalog.

Milk * is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Mobile, Defunct, and Acqui-hired.

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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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CompanyConsumerMobileDefunctAcqui-hiredGV Portfolio

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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: milk
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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/milk.png
name: Milk *
description: Milk, Inc. was a mobile application development lab founded in 2011 by Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, and Jeff Hodsdon,
  and backed by GV (Google Ventures). Its only shipped product was Oink, an app for rating and discovering real-world things.
  Milk shut down Oink in early 2012 and the product team was acqui-hired by Google in March 2012, after which the company
  ceased to exist. It is defunct with no active website, developer portal, SDKs, or public API surface. This profile was added
  to the API Evangelist network as a GV portfolio lead; enrichment confirmed there is no API to catalog.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/milk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Team acqui-hired by Google in March 2012; company and product (Oink) shut down.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Mobile
- Defunct
- Acqui-hired
- GV Portfolio
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
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  pass: local-v1