Apollo has an opt-out sub refund screen out. Since I unfortunately know, first hand, all about this process I'll say this is all incredibly stressful. If you ever had a sub for Apollo, even if you uninstalled it and deleted Reddit, go check it out and at least consider it.

It's probably only a few $s for you but those $s get multiplied by 10s of thousands of subs and end up being real money straight out of Christian's pockets.

Macrumors commenter’s takes are always a take.
“Simple Maths” 2 million downloads, 100% conversion rate, 0 churn. Revenue of approximately $30M a year! Or $180M over the 6 years!!!

@paul Apple’s 30% cut + server costs + most users paying nothing at all + not all downloads occurring on day 1 + it actually being 5.75 years.

I imagine the actual pre-tax revenue is about $750k per year, tops. I’m probably vastly overestimating. In any case, I suspect Christian is wealthy, but he’s had to take big risks and I expect his work-life balance is not as good as people with an employer and fixed working hours.

Come three months ago, he didn’t know his revenue was about to end.

@sdjmchattie @paul He’s said that if everyone who is ‘due’ a refund doesn’t opt out) then it will cost him $250,000 (US I guess).

We also know that most of his subscriptions come when he promotes them (around every quarter). So that £250,000 represents around 6 to 8 months. So somewhere around $500K possibly a bit less or a bit more.

But out of that you need to take equipment costs, the server guy, the server, support costs, Imgur costs etc. So not rich by any stretch.

@PhilipKing yes good point. Why try to multiply up when, like you said, $250k is probably half the revenue per year. Even then that’s the 2023 revenue. Lower revenue in previous years. With that info, given that good businesses make about 20% profit, his annual take home may be around $100k towards the end.