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Announcement 📣📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is.(self.apolloapp)
submitted 2 years, 7 months ago* (edited 2 weeks, 5 days after) by iamthatisApollo Developer to /r/apolloapp (733.5k)
Hey all,
I'll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever co...
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This affects Android as well since it's api access. Does anyone make enough money to actually afford that absurd pricing? I highly doubt it
Sync Pro is a 1 time purchase, so no, I doubt my current Android preferred reddit app is going to last either. He'd have to go to a monthly subscription model which handles these costs, and that's millions of users he now has to handle payment processing for as well rather than just garnering the money from the app store. Subscriptions also cause all kinds of problems for people who are on app stores since at least with apple, you can't advertise the subscription in app last i checked? You just have to hope people know you need one in order to use the app? Also rich megacorps are exempt from this because of course they are, but fuck the little guy am I right? I don't know if reddit even realizes how untenable this is, there are forces outside their control that are going to make this kind of pricing unviable
Yep, this is terrible for all Reddit apps. Not only would the app dev have to implement the subscription service, they would also need checks in place to prevent bad actors from using up a bunch of API requests. If Reddit actually does go through with this, it should be on them to provide the necessary tools, since they're the ones profiting from it. Otherwise, it's a whole lot of work, for nothing, for app devs. I guess that's the whole point though..
Yea I haven't used Apollo in years, I only used it when I discovered that I couldn't port my old install of Alien Blue to an iPhone I had to use after one of my android phones died, and it was all my family had spare before I could get a new phone. I just ended up here because the gaming organization I help lead, was discussing it in our discord today after someone linked to this post. Not all of the other reddit app subs are talking about this today yet, guess it's time to make sure the Sync subreddit sees this post eh. That said, I think people all over reddit are seeing it, because the upvotes have gone up from 30 to 60k just in a few hours lol
Yep, it's at the top of r/all lol. It was already cross posted to r/redditsync a few hours ago. Some time last week, all of a sudden, Sync started showing a message that "You have reached your rate limit", so I figured this type of info would be coming soon.
You can advertise the subscription in the app, it just has to be purchased through the App Store and apple gets their 30% cut.
So now the apps have to charge for the Reddit info and another 30% on top of that, and then whatever amount they feel is what they need to make for app development time
And I believe, feature-wise, Reddit is rather easy to clone. The advantage was that everybody used Reddit. Well, so far.
At this point I wish Christian start his own Reddit clone and I'd be fully in.
Yup, the app I use on my phone, BaconReader, will get hit with the same bs api prices.
May I ask what you use to access Reddit on Android? Any recommendations?
Relay for Reddit
Reddit is Fun - /r/redditisfun/
However, they're in the same boat as Apollo, and realistically will look to shutdown when the API changes are implemented.