# wantful

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

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 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, E-Commerce, Retail, Gifts, Personalization, Defunct

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