# Outside.in

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/outsidein/  
**Website:** https://outside.in  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Outside.in was a hyperlocal news aggregation service that clustered blog posts and local news by geography ("placeblogging"), founded in 2006 and backed by Union Square Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners. It was acquired by AOL in 2011 and folded into the Patch local-news network; the standalone product and its geo-tagging API were subsequently shut down. The company is defunct: the outside.in domain no longer serves a website and there is no live developer portal, documentation, or API surface to enrich. This profile is retained as a historical/portfolio-lead record.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Hyperlocal, News Aggregation, Local News, Geolocation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/outsidein/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.