Reddit’s API Pricing

> So what if Apollo charged $6 per month [...] If only a third of those users paid, that would be over $350,000 per month. [...] I don’t know what the operating costs are for Apollo

Total nonsense. If you increase the price of something from $0 to $72/year, you are not going to keep "a third" of your users, especially when free alternatives exist (the official reddit app, using tiktok or whatever instead).

> But don’t say that the new pricing makes it impossible to build a third-party app. Because that’s not true. It would just require pricing apps so they’re more in-line with Reddit’s own offering.

perhaps that was the differentiator? willingness to sell for less than possible?

even then, the pricing was an issue in part due to how the pricing discussions were handled. this isn’t really just about the pricing.

so, sure, ignore all context save dollars, focus on making dollars, and you could have.

great?