# Vark (Aardvark)

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

Vark is the Felicis portfolio listing for Aardvark, the social search / knowledge-market startup founded in 2007 by Max Ventilla, Nathan Stoll, Damon Horowitz, and Rob Spiro (The Mechanical Zoo). Users asked questions and were connected live with friends or friends-of-friends who could answer them, over email and IM. Google acquired Aardvark on February 11, 2010 for $50 million and shut the service down in September 2011. The company is defunct and published no public API. Its original domain vark.com no longer resolves, and the vark.io URL listed on the Felicis portfolio page now hosts an unrelated SMS meeting-reminder product operated by Saasology LLC.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| 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 |

## 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

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Search, Social Search, Questions, Knowledge Market, Defunct, Acquired

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