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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 would be awesome. Investors who have invested in reddit can hedge their bets by also investing in Apollo.
Hell, imgur was started in the comments section of a reddit post whenever someone said they wish they had somewhere to host pictures since it wasn't allowed on reddit. Now look how massive imgur has become.
Apollo doesn't just have an established userbase, Apollo has a dedicated userbase. If there was a reddit alternative that had even 1/50th of the content that reddit has then I'd make the switch.
I don’t know fuck about shit, but would this open him up to massive lawsuits? Developing Apollo and communicating with Reddit - then this shit show happens, so he designs something very similar in response? I have no idea, just curious on potential ramifications, if there are any.
I dunno I was just curious if there was any potential issue with making a very similar alternative issue given the nature of his work with Reddit!
If they blatantly ripped off the design and called it something like Creddit, so that it was very obviously supposed to be a Reddit clone, or if they started a massive advertising campaign smearing Reddit, they might open themselves up to lawsuits. But just creating their own platform on its own shouldn't do that.
Again, reddit doesn't own any patents or trademarks that would allow them to successfully sue. Would you be surprised to learn that reddit themselves ripped off another site's design?
Back before reddit there was digg. Reddit grew massively once digg went downhill. Look at this screenshot of what digg used to look like. Does that site layout look familiar?
Also, reddit clones have been around for years. Voat is a popular one that users from a few years back will remember. They closed down, but not because reddit made them. There's also sites like saidit.net that are actual reddit ripoffs that are still up (albeit with a MUCH smaller userbase).
If Apollo branched out and reddit sued them for ripping off their content, this means that digg could have sued reddit a looooong time ago, and that never happened because it would've been frivolous at best.
Couldn’t Apollo just team up with one or those alternatives, fast forward the battle by uniting user bases and combining the best app interface out there with a solid established reddit clone?
The power in the users, none of it is in Reddit’s hands if we walk out.
Would be fitting to send a mass exodus message as we we shut down accounts.
I like this.
It’s called capitalism and as long as there is no stolen IP, there is no issue.
Just make sure I can use it on Android too