Rooster

Rooster is a subscription mobile reading app built by Plympton, Inc., a literary studio co-founded by Jennifer 8. Lee, Yael Goldstein Love, and Jacky Chang. Rooster delivers serialized fiction to readers' phones in short, commute-sized installments for a flat monthly fee, drawing on Plympton's DailyLit heritage of serialized reading. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of 500 Global and added to the API Evangelist network. Rooster is a consumer-facing app; Plympton publishes no public API, SDK, developer portal, or webhook surface as of this enrichment pass.

Rooster is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Reading, Publishing, Serialized Fiction, and Mobile App.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyReadingPublishingSerialized FictionMobile AppConsumerMedia

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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: rooster
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/rooster.png
name: Rooster
description: Rooster is a subscription mobile reading app built by Plympton, Inc., a literary studio co-founded by Jennifer
  8. Lee, Yael Goldstein Love, and Jacky Chang. Rooster delivers serialized fiction to readers' phones in short, commute-sized
  installments for a flat monthly fee, drawing on Plympton's DailyLit heritage of serialized reading. It was surfaced as a
  portfolio company of 500 Global and added to the API Evangelist network. Rooster is a consumer-facing app; Plympton publishes
  no public API, SDK, developer portal, or webhook surface as of this enrichment pass.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rooster/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: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Reading
- Publishing
- Serialized Fiction
- Mobile App
- Consumer
- Media
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://plympton.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1