CopynPaste

Slack wants one asterisk for bold. Discord wants two. WhatsApp wants

underscores for italic. Reddit wants something else again.

None of this mattered much until AI assistants started emitting Markdown by

default. Now every time someone moves text out of ChatGPT or Claude into the

place they actually work, it lands as literal punctuation. Like this.

Millions of times a day, and everyone just fixes it by hand.

So I built copynpaste. Paste text, it detects the source formatting, you pick a

destination, it comes out correct.

## The part I actually want feedback on: the distribution bet

The product took less time than the distribution strategy did.

I'm running the iLovePDF playbook. The converter isn't the moat. Owning every

"X to Y" query is. Right now that's ~25 programmatic pages (markdown-to-slack,

slack-to-markdown, chatgpt-to-whatsapp, and so on), plus per-platform

formatting guides and a cheat sheet. Each one targets a query someone types at

the exact moment their paste breaks.

The thesis is that this category has genuinely weak incumbents. The existing

converter sites are single-direction, ad-choked, and none of them detect the

source. Every one asks the user "what format is this?" Users don't know that.

They know where they copied from and where it's going. Detection is the whole

product.

## One technical decision I'd defend

The entire conversion runs client-side. Nothing you paste is uploaded.

That kills analytics I'd love to have. I can't see the actual inputs that fail,

which is genuinely painful for a tool whose entire job is edge cases. I took

the trade anyway. I didn't want to be the service sitting on everyone's

half-written drafts.

Open source under MIT if you want to see how the dialect tables work:

github.com/Giri-Aayush/copynpaste

## Where I actually am

Day zero. No meaningful traffic, no revenue, launching on Product Hunt now.

Pricing is live (free tier, $4.99/mo, $49 lifetime) but it exists to test

willingness to pay, not to earn anything yet.

The only metric I care about this quarter is 7-day return rate. Everything else

is vanity. A utility people use once is a curiosity. A utility people come back

to is a business.

## What I'd genuinely like from you

1. If you've run a programmatic SEO play: how long before pages started

ranking? I'm bracing for months and want to know if that's realistic.

2. Which app mangles your formatting most often? That tells me which dialect

table to harden next.

Roast it: copynpaste.xyz