The Relay for Reddit dev (u/dbrady) is bravely working on Relay. I got an update yesterday. The changelog said “further reduce API calls”. I think he actually wants to make it a paid app, which I’d gladly pay for.
I hate the Reddit change as much as the next guy, but if the Relay dev can actually make a profit from it that’d be awesome. The app cost a one-time $4 or something, which I’m sure he never made bank with. Having like $3-5/month for it would probably be sustainable.
He wasn’t optimistic on being able to make that work, last I heard.
He was initially talking about $3/month, but the issue is that most of the people willing to pay a monthly subscription for Reddit are the heaviest users. So instead of looking at the API usage for the average user, pricing needs to be aimed at the top 10% or 1% of users.
I’m still looking into it, gathering data etc. Unfortunately the average call rates when broken down to the top 2, 5, 10% etc of users is painting a much different picture. This is the cohort of users I would expect to possibly convert to a subscription model and the average rates for those users can be 3,4,5 even 600 hundred calls per day just by the shear amount they use the app. Some of the top users are well over 1000 per day and sometimes over 2000.
So I’m not sure yet. It would probably have to be a usage based subscription model if it was going to be anything and I’m not sure that’s worth doing. I am still looking into it but unfortunately I don’t think my earlier price points will work.
It’s such a big risk too, hoping to set the price point just right to not run up a massive tens of thousands bill in one month, or even hundreds of thousands or millions.
I really hope they properly set up an LLC so that worst case scenario they can bankrupt just the LLC and stiff Reddit on the bill without putting their personal finances at risk.
Related to another Reddit app, but not RIF:
The Relay for Reddit dev (u/dbrady) is bravely working on Relay. I got an update yesterday. The changelog said “further reduce API calls”. I think he actually wants to make it a paid app, which I’d gladly pay for.
I hate the Reddit change as much as the next guy, but if the Relay dev can actually make a profit from it that’d be awesome. The app cost a one-time $4 or something, which I’m sure he never made bank with. Having like $3-5/month for it would probably be sustainable.
I appreciate it, and that’s probably the right move. Unfortunately, I know that I wouldn’t want to pay that, knowing that I’d be helping feed Reddit.
My sentiments exactly! The app developers will make the same, all or most of that fee will go straight into reddit’s pockets.
He wasn’t optimistic on being able to make that work, last I heard.
He was initially talking about $3/month, but the issue is that most of the people willing to pay a monthly subscription for Reddit are the heaviest users. So instead of looking at the API usage for the average user, pricing needs to be aimed at the top 10% or 1% of users.
It’s such a big risk too, hoping to set the price point just right to not run up a massive tens of thousands bill in one month, or even hundreds of thousands or millions.
I really hope they properly set up an LLC so that worst case scenario they can bankrupt just the LLC and stiff Reddit on the bill without putting their personal finances at risk.
Relay is the app I use. It’s is beyond awesome. I so wish for Relay for Lemmy. I would gladly pay again.
I will never pay for an app for Reddit. They showed their true colors and they were ugly colors. Like shit brown.
I’ve heard sync for reddit is converting to Lemmy. I’ll give it a go.
I agree. Even if rif were to miraculously come back free, not sure I’d want to go on reddit as long as spez is in charge.