BetaList
BetaList is a platform for discovering upcoming internet startups and getting early access to innovative products before they go mainstream. Founded in 2010, BetaList curates pre-launch and recently launched startups across categories including SaaS, AI tools, analytics, developer tools, and more. Startups gain exposure through the BetaList website, daily email newsletter, and social media channels. BetaList also operates a small read-only REST API at api.betalist.com/v1 covering startups, regions, and markets; its documentation is published publicly as a GitHub gist by founder Marc Kohlbrugge and linked from the BetaList support page, but access tokens are issued case-by-case on request rather than self-service.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles BetaList the way a machine reads it — 16 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — BetaList scores 23.8/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 5/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile BetaList
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for BetaList. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
BetaList API
Read-only REST API over the BetaList startup directory. Three documented collections — startups (list + detail, filterable by region_id and market_id), regions (list + detail), ...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Betalist Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFeatures 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Startup Discovery
Browse early-stage startups across SaaS, AI, analytics, developer tools, and dozens of other categories.
Daily Newsletter
Receive a daily digest of the newest startups curated by the BetaList team.
Early Access
Get early access to products before they officially launch to the public.
Startup Submissions
Founders can submit their startups for free or pay for expedited review and featuring.
Trending Startups
Discover trending and recently featured startups across all categories.
Search and Browse
Search and filter startups by category, keywords, or launch date.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Early Adopter Discovery
Find and sign up for access to new products before they launch to the general public.
Startup Research
Research early-stage startups and emerging companies across technology verticals.
Founder Marketing
Gain initial visibility and early adopter feedback by submitting a startup to BetaList.
Investor Scouting
Discover early-stage companies and track emerging trends in startup categories.
Newsletter Growth
Reach the BetaList audience of engaged early adopters through newsletter featuring.
Resources
Every other property we hold for BetaList — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of BetaList, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.
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