# Sidechat

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sidechat/  
**Website:** https://sidechat.lol/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 12.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 25.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Sidechat Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Social, Anonymous, Community, Messaging, Consumer, Higher Education, Mobile

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sidechat/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.