Quirky

Quirky was a crowdsourced consumer-product invention platform (founded by Ben Kaufman) that let inventors submit ideas the community helped design, manufacture and sell; it was backed by a16z among others. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015. As of this enrichment pass the quirky.com domain is a parked "domain name is for sale" page with no operating product, developer portal, or API surface. This profile is retained as a defunct a16z portfolio-company lead; no API artifacts exist to enrich.

Quirky is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Invention, Crowdsourcing, Consumer Products, and Hardware.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyInventionCrowdsourcingConsumer ProductsHardwareDefunct

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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)

aid: quirky
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/quirky.png
name: Quirky
description: Quirky was a crowdsourced consumer-product invention platform (founded by Ben Kaufman) that let inventors submit
  ideas the community helped design, manufacture and sell; it was backed by a16z among others. The company filed for Chapter
  11 bankruptcy in 2015. As of this enrichment pass the quirky.com domain is a parked "domain name is for sale" page with
  no operating product, developer portal, or API surface. This profile is retained as a defunct a16z portfolio-company lead;
  no API artifacts exist to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quirky/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: www.quirky.com returns HTTP 200 serving a domain-for-sale parking page (probed 2026-07-20); no api./developer./docs.
  subdomains resolve (NXDOMAIN)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Invention
- Crowdsourcing
- Consumer Products
- Hardware
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1