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.

5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanySocial SoftwareMarketplaceConsumerAcquiredDefunct

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: tasty-labs
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/tasty-labs.png
name: Tasty Labs
description: 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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tasty-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- union-square-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by @WalmartLabs in May 2013; tastylabs.com domain no longer resolves (no DNS A record). No public
  API surface.
x-founded: '2010'
x-founders:
- Joshua Schachter
- Nick Nguyen
- Paul Rademacher
x-acquired-by: WalmartLabs
x-acquired-date: '2013-05-14'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2010-01-01'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Social Software
- Marketplace
- Consumer
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://tastylabs.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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