Punchd

Punchd was a mobile customer-loyalty rewards application for small businesses, founded in 2009 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo by Reed Morse and Grantland Chew, that let merchants run digital punch-card loyalty programs. Google acquired the company in June 2011 and retired the product in June 2013, folding features into other Google products. The getpunchd.com domain now serves only a static Google-hosted closure announcement. The company is defunct with no active product, developer program, or public API surface; this profile is retained for network completeness as a historical record.

Punchd is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Loyalty, Rewards, Mobile, and Small Business.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyLoyaltyRewardsMobileSmall BusinessDefunctAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: punchd
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  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/punchd.png
name: Punchd
description: Punchd was a mobile customer-loyalty rewards application for small businesses, founded in 2009 at Cal Poly San
  Luis Obispo by Reed Morse and Grantland Chew, that let merchants run digital punch-card loyalty programs. Google acquired
  the company in June 2011 and retired the product in June 2013, folding features into other Google products. The getpunchd.com
  domain now serves only a static Google-hosted closure announcement. The company is defunct with no active product, developer
  program, or public API surface; this profile is retained for network completeness as a historical record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/punchd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Loyalty
- Rewards
- Mobile
- Small Business
- Defunct
- Acquired
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: acquired-by-google-2011-retired-2013
x-api-surface: none
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getpunchd.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1