# Running a Side Business as a Programmer: The story of Later for Reddit

DevFeed: [Running a Side Business as a Programmer: The story of Later for Reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/running-a-side-business-as-a-programmer-the-story-of-later-for-reddit-32140.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambard.com/blog/later-for-reddit-in-review/>)

Published: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Adam Bard](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/adam-bard.md>)

Topics: [Reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reddit.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithm.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintenance.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>), [ranking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ranking.md>), [reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reddit.md>), [revenue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/revenue.md>), [side-projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/side-projects.md>), [website](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website.md>)

## AI overview

A programmer recounts building Later for Reddit to schedule Reddit posts at better times and describes how the project evolved from a free service into a paid side business.

## Source excerpt

For the past 5 years, I've run a website called Later for Reddit. For the past 2 years, it's actually been making money. Here's how that happened. I used to spend a lot of time on Reddit (insert Mitch Hedberg joke here). I also used to spend a lot of time writing side projects, often late into the night. One problem I frequently had at the intersection of those two hobbies was that, when I posted my sweet new thing to Reddit after I finished getting it ready at 2am, it never had a chance of getting seen.