aid: ofo
name: Ofo
description: >-
  Ofo (Chinese: 小黄车, "little yellow bike") was a Beijing dockless bicycle-sharing company
  founded in 2014 by Dai Wei and four classmates from the Peking University cycling club, and
  launched publicly on 7 September 2015. At its 2017 peak it had deployed more than 10 million
  bicycles across roughly 250 cities in 20 countries, reported over 60 million monthly active
  users, and was valued at around US$2 billion; in March 2018 it raised an $866M round led by
  Alibaba. Ofo's bikes were unlocked exclusively through its own consumer iOS and Android app.
  The company never operated a developer portal, never published a machine-readable API contract,
  and never shipped official client SDKs — the only documentation of its endpoints is third-party
  reverse-engineering of the private mobile-app API at one.ofo.com. Ofo withdrew from most
  international markets in July 2018, collapsed under a deposit-refund backlog that left more than
  10 million users queuing for refunds from December 2018, and had ceased bike-rental operations
  by 2020. ofo.com is still registered through Alibaba Cloud and still resolves, but its origin
  refuses connections on ports 80 and 443; the historic ofo.so host dropped and was re-registered
  by an unrelated party in April 2025 and now serves a parked arcade-game lander. This profile is
  retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ofo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-harvest-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/ofo_stock/
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2014'
x-launched: '2015-09-07'
x-shutdown-note: >-
  Scaled back to near-zero from late 2018 after a cash crunch and a deposit-refund crisis affecting
  more than 10 million users; dissolved its international division in July 2018 and had stopped
  operating bike rentals by 2020. No formal liquidation date is published; the corporate entity was
  reported as a listed dishonest judgment debtor in China rather than wound up cleanly.
x-domain-status: offline
x-domain-note: >-
  ofo.com holds a live registration through Alibaba Cloud (registry expiry 2027-09-08), still
  resolves to 47.93.164.86 and still carries NetEase corporate MX records, but both port 80 and
  port 443 are closed at the origin, so no HTTP request completes and no /.well-known/ or spec path
  can be probed. The last Wayback capture of https://www.ofo.com/ is 2023-09-28. ofo.so is NOT Ofo
  any more — it was re-registered through Dynadot on 2025-04-21 and 302s to an arcade-game
  monetisation lander. Neither host is wired as a Website pointer.
x-website-note: >-
  The only URL in common[] is a Forge Global secondary-market listing page — the harvest source,
  not Ofo's own web presence. It is retained for provenance and traceability back to the backlog
  that surfaced this company; see roadmap#56, which tracks re-typing venue listings across the
  17 providers that carry one.
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Transportation
- Mobility
- Micromobility
- Bike Sharing
- Sharing Economy
- Consumer
- China
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ofo-packages.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    Ofo stopped operating bikes by 2020 and its own host ofo.com now refuses TCP connections on
    both port 80 and port 443 despite still resolving, so every /.well-known/, /openapi.json and
    /llms.txt probe fails to connect rather than returning a status; the company never published a
    developer program in the first place, and the only surviving documentation of its endpoints is
    third-party reverse-engineering of the private mobile-app API at one.ofo.com.
  evidence:
  - url: https://ofo.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://ofo.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://one.ofo.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://ofobike.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://ofo.so/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/ofo
    status: 404
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/ofo_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-26'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1