Whirlybird

joined 2 years ago
[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago

Cloud. Just put it all on the cloud, plus a local HDD.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago

It’s not the “nazis” being antisemitism at the moment, it’s the lefties (labor and greens). It’s disgusting. Need to find a new party to vote for. Pirate party still around?

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

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.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 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.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

old Reddit is notoriously difficult to use and that’s pretty common knowledge

If you have room temperature IQ maybe.

which is why they had to completely remake it with new Reddit.

No, they did that because they wanted a flashier look.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The UI is no more "intuitive" than the reddit site or official reddit app. Like I said, it's reddit with gesture support.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (16 children)

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

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have, to both.. It's reddit with gesture support.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

He took a very ugly website and made it into an intuitive, beautiful, easy to use app.

His app is just old.reddit.com as an app. It's just the reddit app but with more customisation and better gesture support.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Their product is a content sharing community website. That's what it's made to do.

Christians product was literally just taking reddit and putting it in an app. There's a pretty big difference.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (18 children)

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

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Reddit did him dirty

Did they? He literally made millions of dollars from Reddits product and Reddit didn’t see a cent from him.

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