# Textaurant

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/textaurant/  
**Website:** https://textaurant.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 0.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Tags

Company, Restaurant, Hospitality, Waitlist, Reservations, SMS, Restaurant Technology, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/textaurant/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.