Launched DOMCopy: copy any element as text, HTML, or Markdown

Hey IH community! I'm a solo developer and last week I shipped DOMCopy,
a Chrome extension that just went live on the Chrome Web Store and launched
on Product Hunt. I wanted to share the story here because IH has been where
I've learned most of what I know about indie products.

The problem I kept hitting

I read a lot — articles, documentation, API references. And constantly I
wanted to grab one specific piece of a page: a paragraph, a pricing table,
a code snippet, and paste it into my notes.

The browser's native copy options all fail in their own way:

• Plain text: structure gone. Tables collapse into misaligned rows.
• Copy as rendered: drags in fonts, colors, and half the page's navigation.
• Copy → paste into an online Markdown converter: leave the page, clean up
  tables by hand anyway.

What I built

DOMCopy adds a picker to any page. Hit Alt+Shift+D, hover to highlight
elements, click to copy — as clean text, styled HTML, or GFM Markdown
(tables and lists actually survive the trip to Obsidian/Notion).

Two things I'm quietly proud of:

1. Keyboard tree navigation — arrow keys walk the DOM tree
   (parent/sibling/child), because on real pages hover always lands one
   level off from what you want.
2. Cross-origin iframe support — embedded editors and code sandboxes
   are grabbable too. This was by far the hardest part to build.

Privacy is the foundation: no accounts, no analytics, no servers. Everything
runs locally; what you copy goes to your clipboard and nowhere else.

Pricing (be honest, they said)

So here it is, fully transparent: text, HTML, iframes, and tree navigation
are free forever.

Markdown copying is Pro — $3.99/mo, $25.99/yr, or a
$29.99 lifetime deal. One license works on 3 devices, no account required.

My reasoning: I didn't want to lock the basics behind a paywall (the free
tier is a complete, useful tool), and Markdown-for-notes is the power-user
feature people will pay for. But pricing a browser extension is genuinely
hard — I'd love to hear from anyone who's done this.

Where I am

• Live on the Chrome Web Store
• Product Hunt launch done (survived it 😄)
• Blog post + landing page up
• 4-digit months of revenue: none yet. Day 1 of that journey.

What I'd love feedback on

1. Distribution: beyond PH/HN/directories — what actually moved the
   needle for your browser extensions? The Web Store's search feels like a
   black box.
2. Pricing: is subscription + lifetime the right mix for a utility like
   this, or should I go lifetime-only?
3. The landing page: does the value proposition land in under 5 seconds?

Happy to answer technical questions too — the cross-origin iframe picker
architecture has some interesting scars. Thanks for reading!