Ofo

aid: ofo
name: Ofo
description: 'Ofo (Chinese: 小黄车, "little yellow bike") was a Beijing dockless bicycle-sharing company founded in 2014 by Dai
  Wei and four classmates from the Peking University cycling club, and launched publicly on 7 September 2015. At its 2017
  peak it had deployed more than 10 million bicycles across roughly 250 cities in 20 countries, reported over 60 million monthly
  active users, and was valued at around US$2 billion; in March 2018 it raised an $866M round led by Alibaba. Ofo''s bikes
  were unlocked exclusively through its own consumer iOS and Android app. The company never operated a developer portal, never
  published a machine-readable API contract, and never shipped official client SDKs — the only documentation of its endpoints
  is third-party reverse-engineering of the private mobile-app API at one.ofo.com. Ofo withdrew from most international markets
  in July 2018, collapsed under a deposit-refund backlog that left more than 10 million users queuing for refunds from December
  2018, and had ceased bike-rental operations by 2020. ofo.com is still registered through Alibaba Cloud and still resolves,
  but its origin refuses connections on ports 80 and 443; the historic ofo.so host dropped and was re-registered by an unrelated
  party in April 2025 and now serves a parked arcade-game lander. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is
  no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ofo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-harvest-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/ofo_stock/
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2014'
x-launched: '2015-09-07'
x-shutdown-note: Scaled back to near-zero from late 2018 after a cash crunch and a deposit-refund crisis affecting more than
  10 million users; dissolved its international division in July 2018 and had stopped operating bike rentals by 2020. No formal
  liquidation date is published; the corporate entity was reported as a listed dishonest judgment debtor in China rather than
  wound up cleanly.
x-domain-status: offline
x-domain-note: ofo.com holds a live registration through Alibaba Cloud (registry expiry 2027-09-08), still resolves to 47.93.164.86
  and still carries NetEase corporate MX records, but both port 80 and port 443 are closed at the origin, so no HTTP request
  completes and no /.well-known/ or spec path can be probed. The last Wayback capture of https://www.ofo.com/ is 2023-09-28.
  ofo.so is NOT Ofo any more — it was re-registered through Dynadot on 2025-04-21 and 302s to an arcade-game monetisation
  lander. Neither host is wired as a Website pointer.
x-website-note: The only URL in common[] is a Forge Global secondary-market listing page — the harvest source, not Ofo's own
  web presence. It is retained for provenance and traceability back to the backlog that surfaced this company; see roadmap#56,
  which tracks re-typing venue listings across the 17 providers that carry one.
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Transportation
- Mobility
- Micromobility
- Bike Sharing
- Sharing Economy
- Consumer
- China
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ofo-packages.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Ofo stopped operating bikes by 2020 and its own host ofo.com now refuses TCP connections on both port 80 and port
    443 despite still resolving, so every /.well-known/, /openapi.json and /llms.txt probe fails to connect rather than returning
    a status; the company never published a developer program in the first place, and the only surviving documentation of
    its endpoints is third-party reverse-engineering of the private mobile-app API at one.ofo.com.
  evidence:
  - url: https://ofo.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://ofo.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://one.ofo.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://ofobike.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://ofo.so/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/ofo
    status: 404
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/ofo_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-26'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1