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Apollo, the Reddit app, made 7 billion fucking API requests in a single fucking month. 🤦‍♂️

According to their own math, it would cost them $2.50/month/user to pay what Reddit is charging. Meaning they have ≈800K users.

Charge $10/month/user. Pay Apple their 33% and Reddit their $2.50 and pocket the $4.10 left over. $3.28M/month.

Of course, only a tiny fraction of the current 800K users would actually pay $10/month, but then you won’t be making 7B API requests/month and you won’t be paying $2M/month to Reddit either.

Funny how charging for stuff actually forces people to decide whether it is worth using it or not.

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Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Or you can just scrape Reddit without using the API in the same way Invidious, Nitter, etc do for their respective platforms.

In fact I think Stealth on Android does this for Reddit already.

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Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

Or just don’t build a business on a platform that can rug you at will. I’ve never understood why anyone would do that.

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StackSats.IO 2y ago

Most people don’t think about counterparty risk. It’s that simple really