Singly

Singly, Inc. was established in 2010 by co-founders Jeremie Miller, Jason Cavnar, and Rohit Vats. Miller, who served as Chief Technology Officer, is renowned for inventing the Jabber/XMPP open-source protocols for instant messaging and developing the first XMPP server, jabberd 1.0. His extensive background in open communication platforms and distributed protocols, including his work at Wikia Search, directly informed Singly's mission. Jason Cavnar, another co-founder, has a history of building ventures at the intersection of technology and social impact, later founding Vitality Labs and working with organizations like JFFLabs and Stand Together Music.

The company operated in the API integration and management market, providing a platform designed to simplify data portability for mobile application developers. Singly's core business revolved around its DataFabric product, which served as an abstraction layer for a multitude of APIs from popular services like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox. This enabled developers to integrate data from various sources into their applications without needing to code for each individual API and manage constant changes. The business model focused on offering these API integration tools and services to the developer community, reducing the complexity and cost of connecting mobile apps to both public and private data sources. The platform was particularly noted for its Health Data Fabric, which unified data from user-authenticated fitness devices and apps such as Fitbit and Runkeeper.

Singly's primary offering was its DataFabric platform, which normalized and managed data flow between disparate APIs and mobile applications. This product shielded developers from the backend complexities of API changes, providing a stable and consistent data feed. For clients, this meant a significant reduction in development time and maintenance efforts. The platform also offered pre-built API integrations and was preparing to release an SDK for developers to create their own. In August 2013, Singly was acquired by Appcelerator, a mobile development platform company, for undisclosed terms. The acquisition was a strategic move by Appcelerator to enhance its platform's data integration capabilities, with plans to incorporate Singly's technology into its product line, which included the Titanium development environment used by nearly 500,000 developers at the time.

Keywords: API integration, data portability, developer tools, mobile backend as a service, MBaaS, data abstraction, API management, Jeremie Miller, Jason Cavnar, Appcelerator, DataFabric, Health Data Fabric, fitness data API, social data API, data normalization, data synchronization, developer platform, app development, API aggregation, mobile data services