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> less than $1.00 per user / month for a typical Reddit third-party app This types of generalization irks me everytime. "typical user send 20 emails every mont

• derefr 3y ago
  I don't think that's the expectation here, as that would imply that users who aren't generating much traffic per user would be free, while you'd only charge users who are generating more traffic. Which would be terribly broken in this case, as Reddit is a long-tail service where the users who each make few requests, add up to the supermajority of the traffic served. I think their expectation on Reddit's end is that these third-party apps "should" be charging a subscription fee to every single user that uses them, of something like $12/year, and passing most of that on to Reddit; where the heavy users will be negative-margin to retain, but where this doesn't matter because the users who don't use Reddit much will be subsidizing them. Like insurance. Which is also terribly broken, for classical insurance-economics reasons: just like healthy people generally don't care about getting health insurance unless they're forced to do so, people who don't use Reddit much certainly won't be willing to pay $12/year for it. So it'll only be those power users interested in paying; and so the average usage among that group will be much higher; and so you'll need to charge them quite a bit more than $12/year... and they probably won't be willing to pay that.