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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)
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I'll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever co...
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Sell for 40-50 million and ride off into the sunset.
Honestly as much as it’d suck, Christian would come out a king for all the hard work he’s put in throughout the years. If Apollo is going away, he might as well get something out of it.
I still won’t use Reddit without 3rd party apps like Alien Blue and Apollo, just like I gave up Twitter when Twitterific and TweetBot went away.
When the bag presents itself, you gotta take it
Unless you’re Linus apparently. And turn down 9 figures…
absolutely baller decision. literally realized that he already has the life he wants, and that $100+m wouldn’t make him happier than doing LTT
“what am i going to do? buy a bigger house or a nicer car?”
Didn’t MKBHD do the same?
He said he’d never been offered such a sum, but that in the event that one would be offered, he would reject it
What are you all on about? This thread is filled with people saying they are done with Reddit and the app.
The “valuation” (not that that’s what that was at all by any stretch) would be built around the current user base, not 10% of the user base willing to pay a few dollars.
Reddits pricing structure would suggest they’re not smart enough to realise that part though. 😉
Life's like a sandwich — no matter which way you turn it, the bread comes first
I wonder if Reddit will shutdown Alien Blue. I think I’ve still got access to that one.
But do you really want to use it? Have you opened it recently? It is insane how close I thought alien blue was to Apollo until I opened it today, it’s like night and day, I don’t know how I lasted 5 years on alien blue and it becomes a lot more clear when I see I downloaded Apollo almost immediately after it came out.
Wondering the same from narwhal. They stopped updating/support for it but it’s been my go to for ages. Guess I don’t have Apollo as a backup for when it breaks any more :\
What if they gave him a discount to display ads? Would you still use it?
If I could pay the difference in the discount per month for no ads yea, but I don’t think it’s about ad revenue anymore and more about aggregating data by user and selling it.
I personally wouldn’t, but if it kept Apollo alive, I’m happy for everyone else who would continue to use it.
Is alien blue still around? Seems like it died a while back. I loved that app.
You can still use it if you downloaded it but it looks and works like an app made 10 years ago.
https://imgur.com/a/gx7kIpd/
I didn’t realize how far Apollo came till I looked at alien blue again today.
AB was what I used before it was murdered and then I hopped to Apollo when Christian was doing the $20 lifetime subscription
Yeah I’d be stoked if Christian could sell out and be set for life off this. I wouldn’t use Reddit anymore and the dude has definitely earned a check for all the work he’s put into this app and how good it is.
I wouldn’t be mad. ?make one of the most popular apps
I didn't totally give up twitter with Echofon going away but I'd say usage dropped like 90%.
If Reddit themselve bought it, they could continue to make it usable, or implement the UX/UI into their own app.
They didn’t do anything with alien blue though and back then that was the gold standard imo. Reddit app was only good for finding porn before they nuked that now it’s just battery draining trash but I get push notifications 10secs-10mins faster with the Reddit app, that’s the only good thing I can say.
Selling the ux/ui and data he has on what people want is worth a lot, if Reddit bought Apollo and just changed the whole ux/ui to Apollo’s it would make the app at least palatable even with ads.
Who would pay $40-50 million for something that has $20 million in yearly expenses it can’t cover and a user base that hates ads and paying for things?
I mean they wouldn’t have $20mil expense since they would just be paying themselves. But that being said no reason for Reddit to buy Apollo unless they want some of its features and can’t figure out how to implement them (would seem weird lol) or if they realize how many users they could lose and want to just own the app and modify it
And then reddit would put his code in the bin and kill the app and we'd still never get an ipad version.
If you think they're going to buy something they just priced out, you're kidding yourself. It wouldn't be very business savvy
I learned everything I need to know from Silicon Valley.
Richard should have sold to Gavin.
Yah if they want to kill Apollo I at least want Christian to get rich for it.
And then come back with a sweet app once the non-compete expires.
He really should just sell it, he deserves it. And then the app will just die which is fine, this certainly seems like another stepping stone into the bottom of the lake for Reddit. It has had its time like many other platforms. And will become undone by greed. Something else will pop up.
Why buy something when you can get it for free, at least don’t lie to yourselves, you chronically online dopamine junkies will swallow the shit that reddit will push down your throats, motherfuckers, you won’t last a week without reddit.