aid: againstgravity
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/againstgravity.png
name: Against Gravity
description: 'Against Gravity Corp was the Seattle software company founded in April 2016 by Nick Fajt,
  Cameron Brown, Dan Kroymann, Bilal Orhan, Josh Wehrly and John Bevis that built Rec Room, a cross-platform
  social gaming and user-generated-content world for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Meta Quest, iOS and Android.
  The company later renamed itself Rec Room Inc. and is tracked in this network under the rec-room record.
  Rec Room announced on 2026-03-30 that it could not reach profitability, took its game servers offline on
  2026-06-01 and shut the rec.net community site down on 2026-06-09. It did run a real developer program:
  an Azure API Management developer portal at devportal.rec.net issuing subscription keys against
  api.rec.net. Both are gone — devportal.rec.net is a dangling CNAME to a deleted APIM instance and
  rec.net / api.rec.net answer TLS handshake_failure with no certificate. Only the legacy Squarespace
  marketing site at recroom.com is still served, so no live contract remains to harvest.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/againstgravity/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Rec Room Inc. (formerly Against Gravity Corp) announced closure 2026-03-30, took game
  servers offline 2026-06-01 12:00 PT and shut rec.net down 2026-06-09. GeekWire reported Snap Inc.
  acquired select assets and absorbed some engineers into its Specs Inc. subsidiary. The developer
  portal (devportal.rec.net, Azure API Management) and the API host (api.rec.net) were decommissioned
  with the service.
x-shutdown-date: '2026-06-01'
x-former-name: Against Gravity Corp
x-renamed-to: rec-room
x-duplicate-of: rec-room
x-duplicate-evidence: >-
  Against Gravity Corp is the former legal name of Rec Room Inc. (Wikipedia: "Rec Room Inc., formerly
  known as Against Gravity Corp"). The network already carries all/rec-room/ (aid rec-room, created
  2026-07-17, sourced from the index-ventures portfolio) for the same company. This record was created
  independently from the secondary-market harvest backlog under the pre-rename name and should be
  merged into or superseded by rec-room rather than scored as a second company.
x-api-posture: decommissioned
x-api-posture-basis: observed
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-09-12'
modified: '2026-09-12'
tags:
- Company
- Gaming
- Virtual Reality
- Social Platform
- User Generated Content
- Metaverse
- Entertainment
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/againstgravity-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://recroom.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://recroom.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://recroom.com/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
  url: https://recroom.com/ship-notes
- type: Support
  url: https://recroom.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/againstgravity-lifecycle.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    Rec Room Inc. (formerly Against Gravity Corp) shut its service down on 2026-06-01 and rec.net on
    2026-06-09; its Azure API Management developer portal devportal.rec.net is now a dangling CNAME to
    the deleted instance rr-apim-prod-001.developer.azure-api.net, and both rec.net and api.rec.net
    answer TLS alert 40 with no certificate, so the only host still served is the legacy recroom.com
    Squarespace marketing site, which 404s on every spec and /.well-known/ path.
  evidence:
  - url: https://devportal.rec.net/apis
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.rec.net/swagger/v1/swagger.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://rec.net/
    status: 0
  - url: https://recroom.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://recroom.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://recroom.com/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-12'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3