The Talk Show With John Gruber

379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig

Jun 17, 2023

01:55:30

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Silver Lining in a Cloud With Twitter

3min

The Disappointment of Reddit

2min

Reddit's IPO and the Devil's in the Details

4min

How to Use Reddit to Get Good Results

2min

How Reddit Is Monetizing Its APIs

3min

How to Make Money as a Creator on Memberful

4min

The Importance of Having Third Party Apps Around

2min

The Importance of Free to Download Apps

2min

10.

The Importance of a Free Tier on Reddit

3min

11.

Twitter and Reddit's Disputes Over Ad Banners

3min

12.

The Importance of Reputation in a Company

2min

13.

The Role of the Moderator on a Subreddit

2min

14.

How Reddit Isn't Profitable

2min

15.

The Importance of Revenue Share Models in IPOs

3min

16.

How to Increase Average Revenue Per User

2min

17.

The Cost of Facebook's Acquisition of Instagram

2min

18.

The Importance of Bicycle Subreddits

2min

19.

Collide Collide KOL IDE Can Get Your Fleet to 100 Compliance

2min

20.

Alien Blue: A Paid Product

3min

21.

How Lauren Brickter Built the Website for the Make Something-Wonderful Steve Jobs Book

2min

22.

The Importance of Having Alternative App Icons as a Paid Tier

2min

23.

The Importance of App Icons

2min

24.

The Importance of Paying for Cool Icons

2min

25.

The Importance of Credit in Icon Design

2min

26.

How to Design an Icon for Your Website

4min

27.

The Importance of SwiftUI in App Kit Design

2min

28.

Mimescreen: A Gmail Client for the Mac

3min

29.

Why Old Dot Reddit Is Faster Than It Used to Be

2min

30.

The Steve Huffman Asks Me Anything

2min

31.

The Disappointment of a CEO

2min

32.

Apollo's 20 Million Dollar Bid for Server Costs

2min

33.

How to Avoid Gaslighting in a Relationship

3min

34.

How to Deal With a Billionaire CEO Blackmailing Your Company

3min

35.

The Disappointment of Reddit's Management

2min

36.

The Importance of Reputation in a Reddit Transition

2min

37.

How to Be an Efficient Client on Reddit

5min

38.

How to Optimize Your Apollo Server Component

3min

39.

Apollo: A Total Hit Sandwich

2min

40.

The Unhappy Reddit Community

3min

41.

The Importance of a Shakeup in Twitter

2min

42.

Rocket Money: A Personal Finance App That Finds and Cancels Unwanted Subscriptions

3min

43.

Apollo for Reddit Is a Cool Feature for iOS 17

2min

44.

Apple's Vision Pro and Reddit

2min

45.

The Future of Vision Os

2min

46.

The Future of Pixel-Picks

3min

47.

Apollo: The Future of Software

2min

Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along with highlights from WWDC 2023.

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