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by irthomasthomas 1109 days ago
Why don't you and Christian ask Apple for a small donation, and replace the reddit API with your own? You must have talked about the idea?

I am waiting on delivery of an iPad pro, my first apple device in 10 years. And, even though I hate reddit, I was excited to check out Apollo, if for no other reason than to see what a great ios app looks like.

I know that reimplementing reddit API from scratch will take more than a few weeks. But, I'm sure loyal Apollo users will be happy with a much scaled-down version. Maybe, to begin with you put the app in Read Only mode, and point it to a reddit archive. Then work on making one sub read/write again and expand from there.

I mean, even just a good reddit archive browser has TONS of value. I'd happily pay a small sum for an awesome reddit archive explorer.

"Chatgpt, build the back end for this API: $(cat reddit_api_docs)"