Poncho

Poncho was a consumer weather service founded in 2013 in New York City by Kuan Huang and Paul Murphy that delivered a personalized, personality-driven daily forecast through the messaging layer — Facebook Messenger, SMS, email, and Amazon Alexa — rather than a traditional weather app. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau, the company was acquired by Dirty Lemon and is no longer independently operating. It never published a public developer API, OpenAPI definition, SDKs, or developer portal, so this profile carries identity metadata only.

Poncho is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Weather, Chatbot, Messaging, and Conversational.

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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: poncho
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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/poncho.png
name: Poncho
description: Poncho was a consumer weather service founded in 2013 in New York City by Kuan Huang and Paul Murphy that delivered
  a personalized, personality-driven daily forecast through the messaging layer — Facebook Messenger, SMS, email, and Amazon
  Alexa — rather than a traditional weather app. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau,
  the company was acquired by Dirty Lemon and is no longer independently operating. It never published a public developer
  API, OpenAPI definition, SDKs, or developer portal, so this profile carries identity metadata only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/poncho/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-status-note: Acquired by Dirty Lemon; consumer weather chatbot, no public API surface.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Weather
- Chatbot
- Messaging
- Conversational
- Consumer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
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  pass: local-v1