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What? There are many people who pay to use Christian's app specifically to interact with Reddit. If Apollo suddenly switched to another social network, it would
by turnsout 3y ago
What? There are many people who pay to use Christian's app specifically to interact with Reddit. If Apollo suddenly switched to another social network, it would make a lot of people understandably angry
- MrStonedOne 3y ago[dead]
- daveidol 3y agoSure, but what’s the alternative? Shutting it down? Like that won’t make people angry too…
- turnsout 3y agoThis is the nature/danger of being 100% dependent on a free API. You're at the mercy of the API vendor, and there may be no alternative. In Christian's case, if Reddit doesn't change their mind, his best bet is probably to eliminate the free tier, and increase the paid tier pricing. It's worth a shot, but Apollo would probably take such a hit it may no longer be viable as a business.
- pornel 3y agoTweetbot has been killed by a similar API shakedown, switched to Mastodon, and the app has been very well received.
- turnsout 3y agoWell, Tapbots launched Ivory, a totally different app based loosely on Tweetbot, but it required a substantial investment to design and engineer. It's not like Tweetbot just started loading Mastodon one day. In fact, paying Tweetbot customers were left with a nonfunctional app, and many got prorated refunds from Apple. Ivory has been well-received, but who knows what the numbers are compared to Tweetbot. So this was not a "just swap the API" slam dunk.
- Irishsteve 3y agoSeems like he is in an impossible position to continue down his current path. He has a large enough user base he might only need to replicate a few key subreddits. Sure didn’t reddit start off by having bots vote or post submissions