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Christian squeezing Apollo for its last bit of money (old.reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by UgandaSans@reddthat.com to c/apolloapp@reddthat.com

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Christian has decided to squeeze Apollo again for more money, besides the wallpapers and asking people to decline their prorated refund. Christian additionally forced a pop up ad advertising this plushie.

This is just exposing to more people the greediness that Christian has tapped into recently. Recall that previously, Christian forced daily pop up ads to paid pro users to get them to subscribe to ultra, which was originally stated to only be for notifications since it required a server, but now had all new features attached to it, even very simple local features. Reddit did him dirty, but to be honest, he may have had it coming. He previously disabled ultra access to Jailbroken devices as well, even if they were valid paid users. Christian also didn’t provide refunds to lifetime users who bought it before all the API stuff. Speaking of that, does anyone remember how instead of stating the price was increasing (which happened all the time) he instead said it was “going on sale at the old price”? Kinda misleading.

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[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He’s a millionaire who made those millions from using Reddits free API. Now he’s just grifting.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Source on his net worth?

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He has said that he made millions over the years from Apollo. I don't bookmark every comment he ever makes.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only time he’s ever said anything close to that was a hypothetical.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-app-founders-apollo-riff-made-millions-using-api-2023-6

Apollo's Selig did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment regarding the "millions" Huffman claims he has made. But when reached The Verge reached out to him for comment, he did not deny the claim.

Selig has said that Apollo has around 50,000 yearly subscribers that pay around $10 per year.

Those yearly subscribers alone bring in half a mill a year.

When someone asks you to confirm that you've made millions of dollars and you don't deny it, it's generally because it's true.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Using your logic, if I sell lemonade at a stand for $1 a glass, and sell 1000 glasses, I’ve made $1000. Regardless of how much it costs to make the lemonade, the cost of the stand, the cost of the property the stand is on.

Are you intentionally ignoring the cost of developing and running the app? Or did you assume things like servers, bandwidth, licenses and more were all free?

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

His servers etc aren't going to cost much because he's not doing any of the heavy lifting. His app just uses reddits API. He's not storing any content from the API. He's not recording upvotes. He's not hosting anything from there. At most he has a server for his paying customers account details. He. Isn't. Serving. The. Reddit. Traffic. Bandwidth doesn't come into it, nor do servers. Licenses? What licenses? There is no cost of "running" the app. You're talking like someone that has absolutely no idea how apps work. None of the traffic from Apollo runs through Christians servers. It's all between the customers phone and reddits servers.

If you're taking in a minimum of $500k a year making a reddit app, you're making minimum $490k profit a year from that.