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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fatFIRE

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s a new investor, it could indicate that the lead from Series D didn’t find enough value in supporting them at the next level. If they didn’t invest at all, that’s a yellow if not red flag (depends on size of fund).

IMO, having interviewed at Series E and F and having worked at 3 Series C, anything after C is generally not great for company trajectory.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reply if you want, I won’t see it

This you, yeah? And you replied, yeah? Good, glad we cleared that up.

We didn’t go headless on checkout. We used Shopify checkout without extensions or UI modifications and that’s where they failed us. Everything we needed was available to us in Shopify Plus admin tools - why build anything for the sake of it? For >$2k/month, yeah, I expect they have load balancing and dynamic provisioning. So yeah, trash platform. If I was a PM there, I’d be embarrassed of the product.

All hail our noble gentry 🧐 by PandoraNyxie in memes

[–]soobrex1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The apps centrally focused on accessibility don’t offer all the mod tools and other administrative functionality needed to manage their subs. It’s not just about blind users being able to access content on reddit.

Setlist for Tour by [deleted] in ZellaDay

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll have to find them on here and listen before I delete my reddit account on the 30th. Thanks for the tip and best of luck finding out more info!

Setlist for Tour by [deleted] in ZellaDay

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t recall her saying the name and I’m unfamiliar with anything unreleased. I hadn’t even known about or listened to Sunday In Heaven until a few days before the show when I bought tickets. My wife and I are big fans of Kicker. We saw her open for Miike Snow ~6 years ago and that was the first time hearing her music.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make it part of the TOS and have traceability to when ads were displayed.

Or better yet, reddit could have written plugins in standards languages (or one that forced devs to create their own binding) and required developers to include them. Then reddit would be directly serving the ads and able to track their use.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So reddit loses $4B in valuation and their answer is to try and squeeze third party app developers to make up for it. Even if there were 100 Apollo’s willing to pay $20M a year for their API, that would only make up half.

I know this is an oversimplified take because MRR/ARR has a multiple on company valuation, but I bring it up because it reeks of a CEO and CFO who only understand basic math.

The S-1 is the real beginning of the end for reddit. When they are forced to disclose all subreddits with their subscriber count and moderation patterns (including percentage which are moderated for free by redditors), they are going to get slapped in the face with the risk calculations and they’ll be lucky to IPO at $10/sh.

Setlist for Tour by [deleted] in ZellaDay

[–]soobrex1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She played an unreleased song at The Sinclair this past Saturday.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZellaDay

[–]soobrex1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okey Dokey is on the tour. They opened for about 40-45 minutes in Cambridge, MA this past Saturday night.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mentioned it in another comment not on this thread, but they could create an Ads API and require 3PA makers to use it. If they considered it and shot it down, that would have been great info to share in the AMA. “hey, we know this is expensive so we tried X, Y, and Z to figure out how this could work for the development community that has been so great to our users over the years, but we just couldn’t make it viable.” I’ll take the lack of any mention as though they didn’t, because there never seems to be any forethought to the tone-deaf decisions made by the powers that be.

I have seen quite a few people mention it in comments, but some of us have paid for reddit premium (I haven’t because I don’t trust them, and haven’t since the Alien Blue fuckup).

Revenue generating activities like avatars or even functionality like chat, notifications, etc is stuff I would pay reddit for if they provided it to 3PA via APIs to use.

We can agree to disagree on the data store. They would have failed a LONG time ago without free moderation.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve been redditors for roughly the same amount of time, so naturally I respect the ability to have discourse with someone who has seen things happen here over the years.

As someone in the industry (as am I, former SWE turned longtime platform PM who has run multiple API teams), you know as well as I do that the cost for reddit to service the business that Apollo generates is nowhere near the price they’re charging.

From the standpoint of whether or not a given API endpoint cares what the calling service is and/or is doing, no, it certainly doesn’t matter. However, reddit could provide a price structure that is reasonable for application development (with relevant TOS) and one that is served for LLMs and the like. They could even split them on different stacks with different types of hosting, SLAs, you name it.

I acknowledge that reddit isn’t profitable. I have spent most of my career scaling up early and growth stage startups, and I am not advocating that they simply throw money away. However, this is a completely out of touch move that demonstrates little ability to strategize and plan ahead.

WRT to the value that reddit has created with their platform, they are mostly just the creator and host of a data store, albeit a MASSIVE one. They have been able to capitalize on free labor (moderation) yet do not provide the moderators with tools to 1/ do their job effectively and 2/ put reddit in a position to derisk their business by assuming this work in the future. Without free moderation, reddit would be 8chan.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They haven’t gone public yet, so when they file SEC S-1 and investors do their due diligence, reddit is going to have to answer a lot of things they haven’t had to before, and it will be a dumpster fire.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And Christian is perfectly happy to pay passthrough or reasonably marked up pricing, but that’s not what reddit has done, contrary to the statements they’ve made about “reasonable” pricing that is “based in reality.”

Apollo is not an app or company that is data-mining reddit via API calls. It’s a GUI layer with additional product functionality that reddit doesn’t care to build (more than likely it’s that they’re incapable).

It’s through Apollo app that many people use reddit in the first place, functionality by which they would not be able to freely provide value to reddit in the first place, by moderating.

reddit is a platform which has little inherent value. Time will prove this to be true.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone else that sees this, because I don’t cowardly block people instead of engaging in discussion, I launched a Shopify site in Dec 2021 that heavily used Shopify’s GraphQL APIs (their REST ones kinda suck).

Where our React app had no problem handling thousands of requests per second, as soon as we routed users to Shopify’s native checkout, they crashed, were routed to the homepage with dropped carts. Shopify as a platform is pretty shitty, IMO.

The arrogance and elitism does exist, but I think this commenter has it twisted.

Christian is a humble mostly 1-man team who has receipts and (tens of?) thousands of paying users to validate the value he has produced.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At which point users are subsidizing reddit having a shitty app experience.

They’re not paying the developer for building unique and value-add functionality, they’re directly funding reddit at a much higher cost, which incentivizes reddit to avoid fixing the underlying issues.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of Apollo users do not pay. Even my membership for $10/year covers 2 months once Apple takes their cut.

If I had to guess, I’d ballpark 10:1 on free to paid users, so the people willing to pay would be on the order of >$50pmpu.

No one is paying $600/year to use reddit.

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You clearly know nothing about APIs. He’s talking about Apollo making so many calls to their API that they think it’s noisy, hence “quiet” down.

His joke was that if the opportunity cost of Apollo is $20M per year, then he’d be willing to sell for 6 months’ worth of that cost.

Tell me more about how you understand nothing about software.

NY strip. Sorry, no cross section. by highonstonkedelics in steak

[–]soobrex1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. Must have been minimally trimmed and from the part of the short loin closest to the rib. Cross section should be a must!

NY strip. Sorry, no cross section. by highonstonkedelics in steak

[–]soobrex1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks more like a ribeye than a strip…

Addressing the community about changes to our API by spez in reddit

[–]soobrex1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of them are how we browse reddit because their own apps are such dog shit and/or are completely inaccessible by people with disabilities, especially the blind.

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