Soldsie

Soldsie was a social-commerce platform founded in 2012 in San Francisco by Chris Bennett and Arrel Gray that let retailers sell directly through social media: customers bought products by commenting "Sold" on a merchant's Facebook or Instagram post, while a backend dashboard handled invoicing, customer tracking, and waitlists. Backed by 500 Startups (now 500 Global) and e.ventures, it raised roughly $1M in seed funding and a $4M Series A (2014), and had processed over $25M in transactions across more than 1,000 merchants. The product is now defunct: the soldsie.com apex no longer resolves and www.soldsie.com returns a broken redirect, so there is no live developer portal, API, or documentation surface to enrich.

Soldsie is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Social Commerce, eCommerce, Comment Selling, and Retail.

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

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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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Soldsie Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: soldsie
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/soldsie.png
name: Soldsie
description: 'Soldsie was a social-commerce platform founded in 2012 in San Francisco by Chris Bennett and Arrel Gray that
  let retailers sell directly through social media: customers bought products by commenting "Sold" on a merchant''s Facebook
  or Instagram post, while a backend dashboard handled invoicing, customer tracking, and waitlists. Backed by 500 Startups
  (now 500 Global) and e.ventures, it raised roughly $1M in seed funding and a $4M Series A (2014), and had processed over
  $25M in transactions across more than 1,000 merchants. The product is now defunct: the soldsie.com apex no longer resolves
  and www.soldsie.com returns a broken redirect, so there is no live developer portal, API, or documentation surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/soldsie/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
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Social Commerce
- eCommerce
- Comment Selling
- Retail
- Facebook
- Instagram
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/soldsie-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.soldsie.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1