Tin Can

Tin Can is a Seattle-based consumer hardware company behind a screen-free, landline-style Wi-Fi phone for kids — no apps, texting, or games, just voice calls with contacts that parents approve through a companion mobile app, with free unlimited calling between Tin Can devices. Backed by Greylock (which led a $12M round in 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $15.5M). Tin Can publishes no first-party developer API; its agent-facing surface is the Shopify-hosted storefront, which exposes a live MCP server, a UCP merchant profile, an llms.txt, and Shopify Customer Accounts OIDC on the tincan.kids domain.

Tin Can is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Hardware, Telecommunications, and Voice.

Tin Can’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 10 more developer resources.

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20.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
0 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyConsumerHardwareTelecommunicationsVoiceKidsPhones

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 20.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

tin-can-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tin Can Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tin Can Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Tin Can Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tin-can
name: Tin Can
description: Tin Can is a Seattle-based consumer hardware company behind a screen-free, landline-style Wi-Fi phone for kids
  — no apps, texting, or games, just voice calls with contacts that parents approve through a companion mobile app, with free
  unlimited calling between Tin Can devices. Backed by Greylock (which led a $12M round in 2025, bringing total funding to
  roughly $15.5M). Tin Can publishes no first-party developer API; its agent-facing surface is the Shopify-hosted storefront,
  which exposes a live MCP server, a UCP merchant profile, an llms.txt, and Shopify Customer Accounts OIDC on the tincan.kids
  domain.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tin-can/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://tincan.kids/cdn/shop/files/tinothy-icon.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- greylock
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Hardware
- Telecommunications
- Voice
- Kids
- Phones
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://tincan.kids/
- type: Support
  url: https://faq.tincan.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://tincan.kids/blogs/news
- type: Login
  url: https://tincan.kids/account/login
- type: Pricing
  url: https://tincan.kids/products/tin-can
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tincan.kids/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tincan.kids/policies/privacy-policy
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tin-can-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tin-can-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/tin-can-well-known.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/tin-can-scopes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tin-can-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tin-can-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tin-can-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1