wantful

Wantful was a personalized online gift-giving service founded in 2011 by John Poisson, based in San Francisco and New York City, that let shoppers assemble curated gift books of design-forward products which recipients could browse and redeem for the item they most wanted. Backed by Slow Ventures and others (roughly $5.5M raised) and partnered with Nordstrom, the company shut down in September 2013 after failing to secure follow-on funding. It is defunct — wantful.com resolves (Route53 NS) but serves no live product, and there is no API, documentation, or developer surface to enrich.

wantful is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Retail, Gifts, and Personalization.

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Company E-Commerce Retail Gifts Personalization Defunct

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aid: wantful
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/wantful.png
name: wantful
description: Wantful was a personalized online gift-giving service founded in 2011 by John Poisson, based in San Francisco
  and New York City, that let shoppers assemble curated gift books of design-forward products which recipients could browse
  and redeem for the item they most wanted. Backed by Slow Ventures and others (roughly $5.5M raised) and partnered with Nordstrom,
  the company shut down in September 2013 after failing to secure follow-on funding. It is defunct — wantful.com resolves
  (Route53 NS) but serves no live product, and there is no API, documentation, or developer surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wantful/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-shutdown: 2013-09
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Gifts
- Personalization
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://wantful.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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