Tasty Labs

Tasty Labs, Inc. was a social-software development studio founded in 2010 by Joshua Schachter (creator of Delicious), Nick Nguyen, and Paul Rademacher. Backed by a $3M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), it built experimental consumer products including Jig.com (a marketplace for needs), Human.io (a micro-task service), and Skills.to. The company was acquired by @WalmartLabs in May 2013, with its team and technology folded into WalmartLabs; the tastylabs.com domain no longer resolves. This profile is retained as a historical portfolio record and exposes no public API surface, developer documentation, or specifications.

Tasty Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Social Software, Marketplace, Consumer, and Acquired.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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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description: Tasty Labs, Inc. was a social-software development studio founded in 2010 by Joshua Schachter (creator of Delicious),
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  built experimental consumer products including Jig.com (a marketplace for needs), Human.io (a micro-task service), and Skills.to.
  The company was acquired by @WalmartLabs in May 2013, with its team and technology folded into WalmartLabs; the tastylabs.com
  domain no longer resolves. This profile is retained as a historical portfolio record and exposes no public API surface,
  developer documentation, or specifications.
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