Hi Tom, I will agree that printing your current UI to PDF on the user's browser side is not ideal. (and not ideal for you either as it breaks the site's branding and links in my case)
For our use case as well, I wanted to forward the offline-readable version of your result page and had to save the webpage with a browser extension.
I think allowing users (or maybe just the paid users) to "Save as PDF" the search page result will be a very easy feature to monetize.
I understand that "share the link" is a much more appealing call to action for your startup, but you're probably not going to change the mindset of the entire industry away from PDFs overnight, and you do stand to gain by making this a (possibly paywalled) feature.
For our use case as well, I wanted to forward the offline-readable version of your result page and had to save the webpage with a browser extension.
I think allowing users (or maybe just the paid users) to "Save as PDF" the search page result will be a very easy feature to monetize.
I understand that "share the link" is a much more appealing call to action for your startup, but you're probably not going to change the mindset of the entire industry away from PDFs overnight, and you do stand to gain by making this a (possibly paywalled) feature.
Congrats for the great work!