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It is my understanding that the entire cost of the Reddit API infrastructure was in the 10M/Year according to the CEO. And yet they wanted 20M/Year just from t
by manuelmoreale 3y ago
It is my understanding that the entire cost of the Reddit API infrastructure was in the 10M/Year according to the CEO.
And yet they wanted 20M/Year just from the Apollo dev.
RIF dev said his numbers were in the same ballpark. So with those two alone they were looking at getting 4x the cost of running the API.
Asking for money is reasonable. The devs themselves stated that. What’s unreasonable is both the amount of money and the way the change has been rolled out.
This is clearly a move to remove some of the big 3rd party competitors from the scene without explicitly stating that they want to remove 3rd party apps.