Perplexity Research Backup Tool

Users conduct research in Perplexity AI but lose access to their findings if the service goes down or they cancel. A one-click tool exports all Perplexity research sessions to Markdown and syncs with Obsidian for note-taking. Target: researchers, students, knowledge workers.

Perplexity's rapid user growth since 2023 has created a real lock-in anxiety among power users who are building meaningful research libraries inside the app with no portable export path — that frustration shows up regularly in forums and Reddit threads. No clear incumbent exists here; Perplexity itself offers minimal export functionality, and generic web-clipper tools don't address the structured session format. The $200–1k/mo revenue band is honest given the narrow audience: researchers and students who care enough to pay for this are also savvy enough to question whether a third-party scraper stays functional through API changes, which is exactly the biggest risk — Perplexity can deprecate or lock down its data access at any point, instantly breaking the core feature and making the product unshippable without a complete rebuild.