--- title: Leaving Naftiko Behind to Focus on API Evangelist and... description: Kin Lane announces his departure from Naftiko, the API startup he co-founded and helped raise nearly $3M for, citing misalignment between the company's product... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/leaving-naftiko-behind-to-focus-on-api-evangelist-and-apis-io-t8y6yrguk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Leaving Naftiko Behind to Focus on API Evangelist and APIs.io | daily.dev og:description: Kin Lane announces his departure from Naftiko, the API startup he co-founded and helped raise nearly $3M for, citing misalignment between the company's product... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/leaving-naftiko-behind-to-focus-on-api-evangelist-and-apis-io-t8y6yrguk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/T8Y6YRGUK.png og:image:alt: Leaving Naftiko Behind to Focus on API Evangelist and APIs.io og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Leaving Naftiko Behind to Focus on API Evangelist and APIs.io **[API Evangelist](https://daily.dev/sources/apievangelist)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kin Lane announces his departure from Naftiko, the API startup he co-founded and helped raise nearly $3M for, citing misalignment between the company's product direction and his personal vision. He is refocusing exclusively on API Evangelist and APIs.io, centering his work on the Kin Score, a rating system meant to bring discoverability and governance to the API infrastructure underlying the internet economy. He frames this as a long-standing personal mission dating back to 2014, discusses his belief that only a combination of competition, interoperability, and regulation of APIs can properly govern the AI-powered economy, and credits AI itself with helping him make technical progress. He also acknowledges Steve Willmott, co-owner of APIs.io and API Commons, as a longtime collaborator. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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