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> I don't know anybody who attributes a meaningful difference to $10/year and $20/year. You forgot to factor in other things. Base API cost: $2.52/mo (0.00024
by flutas 3y ago
> I don't know anybody who attributes a meaningful difference to $10/year and $20/year.
You forgot to factor in other things.
Base API cost: $2.52/mo (0.00024/call @ 345req/day)
App Store Taxes / Fees: $1.08/mo (I doubt he qualifies for the reduced fees at this point)
Just adding the appstore tax makes this $43.20 a year. That doesn't factor in any servers he has to pay for (push notifications). The app dev fee $99 per year, not a huge amount but small parts add up. Add in the cost to pay his server engineer, or any profit for him to live off (likely less users, so has to be more $ per user) of while making the app and it probably goes to something like $60/yr.
- dcow 3y agoHe said he could make the pricing work at half what reddit is asking, for $1.26/mo base API cost. I assume he has the best insight into his own business. I was just conservatively spitballing that doubling his revenue would mean he could manage the price Reddit is asking (since he said he could make due with half). Just looking at it from the other angle.
- flutas 3y ago> He said he could make the pricing work at half what reddit is asking, for $1.26/mo base API cost. He said a much more reasonable thing would be to cut the price in half and give a 3 month transition period to make it "feasible for more developers, myself included." > However in a perfect world I think lowering the price by half and providing a three month transition period to the paid API would make the transition feasible for more developers, myself included. These concessions seem minor and reasonable in the face of the changes. What that would likely mean is removing as many API calls as possible and removing features as a result. Which means fewer users would want to pay for it. > I was just spitballing that doubling his revenue would mean he could manage the price Reddit is asking (since he said he could make due with half). Also, as a tidbit. His current subscription pricing is $5/mo for ultra. If we want to take that as his revenue for an ongoing subscription to double (since API access is going to be monthly), then the app would be $10/mo or $120/yr.