Reddit's API access has created a two-tier developer economy that maps imperfectly onto commercial intent but perfectly onto visibility. The individual developer seeking access for a private, personal project is described as facing rejection [2], while the workflow that pulls Reddit data into a Google Sheet for content planning is published openly with a full tutorial [4]. The distinction is not between good and bad actors — both are scraping data. The distinction is between the visible builder who shares their work and the private builder who keeps theirs to…