aid: 9count
name: 9 Count
description: >-
  9 Count, Inc. is a Los Angeles (Venice, CA) consumer mobile app studio founded in 2018 by Alex
  Hofmann, the former CEO of musical.ly, and Joe Viola. The company builds, tests and
  cross-promotes a portfolio of social-connection applications rather than a single product,
  iterating on each with usage data and customer feedback. Its flagship is Wink, an AI-assisted
  friend-making and dating app that matches on personality, stated intent and real-world
  interests instead of swipe-first selection, and it acquired the LGBTQ+ social and personals app
  Lex in September 2024. Earlier titles include the dating app Summer, social arcade app Juju and
  the creator-fan app Popstream. 9 Count has raised roughly $27.5M across three rounds. It is a
  business-to-consumer studio: its products ship as end-user mobile applications through the App
  Store and Google Play, and as of a 2026-09-05 probe it publishes no public API, SDK, webhook
  surface, developer portal or machine-readable specification of any kind.
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x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer App
- Social Networking
- Dating
- Mobile Applications
- Social Discovery
- Consumer Internet
- Media and Entertainment
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer Apps
- Social Networking
- Dating
- Mobile Applications
- Social Discovery
- Consumer Internet
- Media and Entertainment
position: Consuming
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/9count-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.getwinkapp.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/9count
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.getwinkapp.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.getwinkapp.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.getwinkapp.com/privacy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9-count-inc
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/9count-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    9 Count ships only end-user mobile apps — its corporate domain www.9count.co 301-redirects
    every path to the Wink consumer marketing site, its GitHub org holds 25 repositories of which
    23 are forks of third-party vendor SDKs (Stream Chat, mParticle, OneSignal, RevenueCat) and
    none is an API contract, and api./developer./docs. subdomains do not resolve on any domain it
    owns.
  evidence:
    - url: https://www.getwinkapp.com/openapi.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.getwinkapp.com/llms.txt
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.getwinkapp.com/.well-known/api-catalog
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.lex.lgbt/.well-known/agent-card.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://github.com/9count
      status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-05'