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Thanks for writing this up! Chrome Extensions have been my go-to playground for many years but, though I looked into it, I never went through with making one a paying one.

A couple of questions:

Were the existing free users grandfathered in? It seems like it from the weekly users.

Can you have two pricing models for the same extension? Like pay for a lifetime license for $x or $y/year.

Congratulations!

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If you've played around with extensions, you should definitely consider making a paid one. The APIs you need to verify payment are pretty interesting.

> Were the existing free users grandfathered in? It seems like it from the weekly users.

All user who had the extension installed when I made the switch were able to keep it for free. This was a little tricky for users who had installed, then uninstalled it. For those ones I just told them to email me for the developer version.

> Can you have two pricing models for the same extension?

You can't easily, but I did consider putting a lifetime version in the store as a separate extension.

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