aid: crowdery
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/crowdery.png
name: Crowdery
description: 'Crowdery was a consumer retail and e-commerce startup backed by a16z,
  listed on the a16z investment list. Its product inverted the traditional retail sales
  model: shoppers voted on product designs from a curated set, Crowdery assembled a
  personalized marketplace from each shopper''s top picks, and the highest-voted products
  were opened for pre-order at a discount. For brands it offered consumer feedback
  loops, pre-production demographic analytics, and pre-orders intended to de-risk
  manufacturing runs. The company never shipped a public API or developer program.
  As of July 2026 Crowdery appears defunct: the apex domain crowdery.com serves a
  Doteasy hosting placeholder page, www.crowdery.com still delegates to a decommissioned
  Heroku prelaunch application that returns 404, and no developer portal, documentation,
  GitHub organization, or API surface could be found. This profile is retained as a
  historical a16z portfolio record with no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crowdery/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-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Consumer
- Marketplace
- Crowdsourcing
- Pre-Order
- Defunct
- No API
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  name: Crowdery Website (parked placeholder)
  url: https://crowdery.com/
- type: InvestmentList
  name: a16z Investment List
  url: https://a16z.com/investment-list/
- type: Archive
  name: Crowdery homepage (Internet Archive, 2013)
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20131220212321/http://www.crowdery.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  name: Domain Security Probe
  url: security/crowdery-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io