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>>robbie+(OP)
> Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I'd be in the red every month.

I just don't understand why developers underprice their apps so much. You're talking about an app that people are constantly raving about, and that people use for multiple hours per day. Charge $5/month, that's half the price of Netflix or Disney+.

>>jdminh+H8
What percent of the app's current customer base do you think would stick around at paying $5 a month to browse r/funny on the phone?

>>cool_d+Ob
Who cares? It doesn't matter one bit. OP built a profitable business off free API access. That is the mistake here... assuming it would always be free.

>>Alupis+2c
It matters a lot if most of the userbase relies on these separate businesses to either read or moderate the site, as seems to be the case.

>>cool_d+9e
And just like the Twitterocolypse that never was... people will just use the official client - or subscribe to their favorite reader app.

Complaining you don't get free stuff anymore is really unbecoming of an entrepreneur.

>>Alupis+Oe
> Complaining you don't get free stuff anymore is really unbecoming of an entrepreneur.

He wasn't complaining about that. He was led to believe that the price would be reasonable, and he was willing to pay a reasonable price, as he already pays Imgur.

>>lapcat+Tj
How does the Apollo maintainer get to decide what's a reasonable price? It certainly can't be through hand-wavy and supposedly "generous" estimations of how much money Reddit makes.

Only Reddit knows how much money it loses per user who doesn't see ads.

>>raydev+fm
> How does the Apollo maintainer get to decide what's a reasonable price?

Prices are a two-way street. You can name any price you like, but if buyers can't afford it, then you make $0.

This is why the developer himself can't just raise his own prices by any arbitrary amount. Buyers have some say in the price.

>>lapcat+On
> This is why the developer himself can't just raise his own prices by any arbitrary amount. Buyers have some say in the price.

Indeed, but this is the risk in selling a middleware product. The Apollo developer doesn't own the platform, and was lucky he hadn't yet been asked to pay for the share of maintenance costs his app created.