{"id":164928,"date":"2023-06-01T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-developer-says-reddit-could-charge-him-20-million-a-year-to-keep-his-app-working"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:26:13","slug":"a-developer-says-reddit-could-charge-him-20-million-a-year-to-keep-his-app-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-developer-says-reddit-could-charge-him-20-million-a-year-to-keep-his-app-working","title":{"rendered":"A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-developer-says-reddit-could-charge-him-20-million-a-year-to-keep-his-app-working2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t see how this pricing is anything based in reality or remotely reasonable.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Apollo, the popular Reddit app for iOS, could face millions of dollars in fees as a result of Reddit\u2019s new paid API model. According to an update posted by developer.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit announced changes to its API policy in April, which allows the platform to put limits on the number of API requests made by a third-party client like Apollo. But now, we have more details on what exactly this means: Selig says Reddit plans on charging about $12,000 per 50 million requests.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The future of Apollo on Reddit isn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I don\u2019t see how this pricing is anything based in reality or remotely reasonable.\u2019 Apollo, the popular Reddit app for iOS, could face millions of dollars in fees as a result of Reddit\u2019s new paid API model. According to an update posted by developer. Reddit announced changes to its API policy in April, which allows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}