aid: braintripping
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/braintripping.png
name: BrainTripping
description: >-
  BrainTripping is a whimsical Markov-chain language game founded by Matthew
  Huebert in the Y Combinator Summer 2012 batch. It lets players step inside the
  vocabularies of famous historical and modern figures and compose their own
  sentences, constrained to that person's word patterns. The company is no
  longer active as a startup; today the BrainTripping GitHub organization
  publishes open-source ClojureScript tooling such as cljs-live, magic-tree, and
  the Lark editor. The public surface is a single-page ClojureScript web app at
  braintripping.com and it exposes no public REST API, SDK, or developer
  platform.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/braintripping/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment-note: >-
  Enriched 2026-07-18. BrainTripping is a defunct YC S2012 Markov-chain language
  game and an open-source ClojureScript GitHub organization, not an API
  provider. No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, SDK, MCP, well-known, or developer surface
  exists (the site is a SPA that returns its app shell for every path, including
  /.well-known/security.txt, /openapi.json, and /llms.txt). Enrichment was
  therefore limited to honest identity hygiene plus a live domain-security
  probe; no API artifacts were fabricated.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Language
- Games
- Natural Language Processing
- ClojureScript
- Open Source
- Y Combinator
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/braintripping-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.braintripping.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/braintripping
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence