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    11 months ago

    “Devs want to continue making money”

    What’s was the revenue stream with reddit? Was it all donation based or was it like a Boost/Boost Pro model.

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      11 months ago

      Oh no, they made loads of money. I hate to quote spez the fuckwad: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-app-founders-apollo-riff-made-millions-using-api-2023-6?r=US&IR=T

      No dev was talking against that, so i guess that point is correct.

      Apollo made 500k a year alone from subscriptions, i have no clue what they’ve paid for the API prior though, but these guys are loaded.

      The RIF dev spoke out:

      "Regarding the ‘millions,’ word the CEO publicly threw out, I will say RIF earns under a million per year, " Andrew Shu, RIF’s developer, told Insider over email.

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        11 months ago

        The API for Reddit was free. I think for sites like Imgur, Redgifs, etc they paid some pretty reasonable fees. It’s worth noting that many of them had revenue sharing agreements and trademark licenses with Reddit that were terminated after spez became CEO.

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      11 months ago

      I’m not absolutely sure, but I think it was ad banners for free users and a possibility to remove ads with a one-time fee.