That's a great list. You might want to consider applying at Reddit for a PM role :) https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ I do

That's a great list. You might want to consider applying at Reddit for a PM role :) https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ I don't think reddit cares as much about third-party clients as much as being mined for data. There is a case to be made that third-party clients take away from their ad revenue in the same way that third-party Twitter clients took away from Twitter's ad revenue (Twitter's financial woes are not due to limiting third-party clients by the way). It also adds a level of complexity since all changes to the platform require API changes as well (and backward compatibility support). In fact, most, if not all, of your ideas require that a user use a first-party client. Thinking that monetizing API is a good idea is not contrarian, by the way. It's what the company is looking to do. Rolling back this decision is the contrarian approach. Semantics but worth pointing out.