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, E-Commerce, Comment Selling, and Retail.
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deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: approval
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Requires approval
confidence: medium
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
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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: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Social Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Comment Selling
- Retail
- Facebook
- Instagram
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- 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
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