Sidechat

Sidechat is an anonymous, campus-based social networking app for college students, built by Flower Ave Inc in New York City and backed by Canaan Partners. Students verify with a school email to join their college's private, location- and campus-scoped community where they post text, images, and polls, vote, and chat anonymously in a Reddit-like feed. Sidechat launched in early 2022, acquired Yik Yak in 2023, and operates primarily as an iOS consumer app. It publishes no official public API, developer portal, SDK, or OpenAPI surface; this profile captures the company's public web presence and identity for the API Evangelist network.

Sidechat is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Social, Anonymous, Community, and Messaging.

Sidechat’s developer surface includes support, signup flow, and 4 more developer resources.

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14.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySocialAnonymousCommunityMessagingConsumerHigher EducationMobile

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Composite quality — 14.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 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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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sidechat
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/sidechat.png
name: Sidechat
description: Sidechat is an anonymous, campus-based social networking app for college students, built by Flower Ave Inc in
  New York City and backed by Canaan Partners. Students verify with a school email to join their college's private, location-
  and campus-scoped community where they post text, images, and polls, vote, and chat anonymously in a Reddit-like feed. Sidechat
  launched in early 2022, acquired Yik Yak in 2023, and operates primarily as an iOS consumer app. It publishes no official
  public API, developer portal, SDK, or OpenAPI surface; this profile captures the company's public web presence and identity
  for the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sidechat/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Social
- Anonymous
- Community
- Messaging
- Consumer
- Higher Education
- Mobile
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sidechat-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://sidechat.lol/
- type: Support
  url: https://yikyak.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://sidechat.notion.site/Sidechat-Terms-of-Use-d2f718ddad2f403b85bba67078fbdf18
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://sidechat.notion.site/Sidechat-Privacy-Policy-df1a4470e1984a74a38bc3dd7630245e
- type: SignUp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidechat/id1591988276
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1