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Wouldn't the most obvious solution be to charge Apollo users for the API access? This will spread the $ load down to peanuts per user and be similar to the ori

• brycewray 3y ago
  The interview deals with this possibility and others like it. The short answer is that he is left hanging due to the fact that many of his existing paying users have already paid for the year and thus, when the new API rate hits, will be costing him money long before he can recoup their costs through a subscription hike --- presuming 100% of them renew at the higher price, which would be an extraordinarily optimistic presumption.
  • abcd_f 3y ago
    That's not quite what I meant. Basically a dev would sell a Reddit client for a fixed amount and when the user would fire it up to view Reddit, then that would trigger a native Reddit's API subscription, paid by the user directly to Reddit. This can be streamlined to be nearly zero-friction IF it's supported on the Reddit end.