Layer By Layer
Layer By Layer was a San Francisco 3D-printing software startup founded in 2012 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch. It operated a marketplace for buying, selling, and sharing printable 3D designs, and built streaming and digital rights management technology that let licensed content partners distribute 3D-printable intellectual property without handing over raw model files. MakerBot (Stratasys) announced its acquisition of the company in November 2014 and folded the streaming and DRM technology into the MakerBot Digital Store. The company no longer operates independently: layerbylayer.com is a parked domain, and there is no developer portal, documentation, public API, or GitHub organization to enrich.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Layer By Layer is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
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 — Layer By Layer scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Resources
Every other property we hold for Layer By Layer — 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.
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Layer By Layer is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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