Unicorn Auctions

aid: unicorn-auctions
name: Unicorn Auctions
description: 'Unicorn Auctions is a Chicago-based online auction marketplace for rare spirits and fine wine, founded in 2019
  by A.J. Heindel, Cody Modeer and Phil Mikhaylov out of the city''s restaurant and bar trade. Every lot is sold on consignment:
  Unicorn authenticates, appraises, photographs and digitizes each bottle before listing it in one to three weekly online
  auctions that can carry several thousand lots spanning bourbon, scotch, Japanese whisky, tequila, agave spirits and wine.
  The company also runs a bonded vault storage service for collectors, and publishes The Unicorn Review, an editorial and
  auction-intelligence blog. Bidding is entirely digital, through the web platform and native iOS and Android apps. Unicorn
  Auctions publishes no public developer program - no OpenAPI, SDK, webhook catalog or developer portal - and the api.unicornauctions.com
  backend that serves its own clients is private, undocumented and disallowed in robots.txt.'
image: https://www.unicornauctions.com/images/brand/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unicorn-auctions/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-02'
modified: '2026-09-02'
tags:
- Company
- Auctions
- Marketplace
- E-Commerce
- Collectibles
- Wine
- Spirits
- Retail
- Consumer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unicorn-auctions-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.unicornauctions.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/unicorn-review
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/unicorn-auctions
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/privacy-policy
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/careers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unicorn-auctions-llc
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/unicorn-auctions-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Unicorn Auctions ships only end-user products - a Next.js bidding site and iOS/Android apps - and publishes nothing
    for developers: no /developers, /developer or /api-docs page exists, its GitHub organization has zero public repositories,
    no first-party SDK is on any registry, and the private Rails backend at api.unicornauctions.com answers 404 on every documentation
    and contract path while robots.txt explicitly disallows /api/.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.unicornauctions.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.unicornauctions.com/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/unicorn-auctions/repos
    status: 200
  - url: https://registry.npmjs.org/unicorn-auctions
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-02'