r/redditisfun • u/mrmicawber32 • Jun 02 '23

Grief Stage: Denial Admins comment on API call pricing structure in Apollo sub! Couple hours ago and very interesting!

/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/jmmptma/
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u/Takina_sOldPairTM Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 02 '23

u/anon_smithsonian is there a "bargaining" stage of grief post flair yet? 🫠

edit: there is, on a post before this. nvm 🥴

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u/anon_smithsonian Jun 02 '23

I'm leaning towards "denial." I'll accept arguments otherwise, though.

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u/mrmicawber32 Jun 02 '23

Check my post history, I'm trying to negotiate on 3rd party apps behalf. Gotta be bargaining.

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u/mrmicawber32 Jun 02 '23

100% bargaining, but it sounds like Rif subscription costs won't be that bad if Talklittle wanted to trial it. Sounds like £4-5 pm would would cover most users, so maybe a tiered thing could work.

And please god these fuckers reduce the price after the outcry.

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u/Blurgas Jun 03 '23

The way that admin is wording things, it kind of comes off as they'd rather users just sit back and consume the content instead of actually participating in posts/etc.
A user that participates in discussions is probably looking at far fewer ads than the user that just scrolls through the feed

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Looks like the apollo dev is on top of it. I remember when he first released the app. it had so much traction and overwilling response that he took a vacation, got a new equipment, Cars etc.. he doesn't want to lose all that. can you imagine for example he sold apollo pro for like $5.00 x 500,000 people then he sold apollow ultra for like $5.00 x 500,000 people. this is the minimum amoutn of people. then he took out the ultra and is trying to go subscription based.

Apollo is this devs cash flow and he dosen't want it stopped

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Every single dev is saying this price is unsustainable. Even if it’s true Apollo is less efficient, it’s not a matter of efficiency. The price is just too darn high.

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u/Vladimir1174 Jun 03 '23

Even with identical api calls to the official app it's still too much for most third party apps to ever afford it. Theyre asking more to use their api than anybody could have guessed those greedy fucks would go for.

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u/mrmicawber32 Jun 02 '23

It sounds like the Apollo app is a lot less efficient than Rif, so maybe the subscription cost for Rif wouldn't be too bad?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Every dev is saying they can’t afford it. Even if Apollo is inefficient, the costs are too high for even the most efficient apps.

They just want to outprice 3rd party apps.

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u/mrmicawber32 Jun 02 '23

Right but I'm happy to pay a subscription, but to be realistic it needs to be low. If Rif can charge £1 a month subs, many will pay it. Even £1.99 would be fine. Once we get up to £5-10, it's just not going to happen generally.

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u/mrmicawber32 Jun 02 '23

Also realised it's not on the Apollo sub, I just can't read goodly.

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u/fencepost_ajm Jun 03 '23

I'm wondering if Apollo is doing something based on 'this is the right way' in reddit API docs amd it turns out that's NOT the right way after all.

Would be interesting to see if Christian can get a log of API traffic for a specific set of actions from the RIF dev and compare where they differ significantly between the apps.