Textaurant

Textaurant was an early SMS-based restaurant waitlist and table-management startup founded around 2010 by Josh Bob in Waltham, Massachusetts, and later surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company. Its software let a restaurant manage its waiting list from a laptop and text guests when a table opened up, positioning itself as a lower-cost alternative to pager-based systems from JTECH and OpenTable. The original company is defunct: its primary domain, textaurant.com, now resolves to a parked GoDaddy "for sale" landing page with no product, documentation, or API surface. A separate, unaffiliated live app reusing the name exists at app.textaurant.app (a small Twilio-backed Next.js application served through a personal proxy), but it publishes no public API, OpenAPI definition, SDK, or developer documentation. There is no API to onboard against; this profile is retained as a network record of a defunct provider.

Textaurant is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Restaurant, Hospitality, Waitlist, and Reservations.

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0.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Restaurant Hospitality Waitlist Reservations SMS Restaurant Technology Defunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 0.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: textaurant
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/textaurant.png
name: Textaurant
description: 'Textaurant was an early SMS-based restaurant waitlist and table-management startup founded around 2010 by Josh
  Bob in Waltham, Massachusetts, and later surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company. Its software let a restaurant manage
  its waiting list from a laptop and text guests when a table opened up, positioning itself as a lower-cost alternative to
  pager-based systems from JTECH and OpenTable. The original company is defunct: its primary domain, textaurant.com, now resolves
  to a parked GoDaddy "for sale" landing page with no product, documentation, or API surface. A separate, unaffiliated live
  app reusing the name exists at app.textaurant.app (a small Twilio-backed Next.js application served through a personal proxy),
  but it publishes no public API, OpenAPI definition, SDK, or developer documentation. There is no API to onboard against;
  this profile is retained as a network record of a defunct provider.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/textaurant/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: textaurant.com serves a parked GoDaddy /lander ("Access Denied") page; all /.well-known/* return the parking
  soft-404, not real documents.
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Restaurant
- Hospitality
- Waitlist
- Reservations
- SMS
- Restaurant Technology
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- Company
- Restaurants
- Hospitality
- Waitlist
- Reservations
- SMS
- Restaurant Technology
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://textaurant.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1