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A couple of months ago, I saw a tweet from @awilkinson: “I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative?” Me bei
by azianmike 1y ago
A couple of months ago, I saw a tweet from @awilkinson: “I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative?”
Me being naive, I thought “how hard could would it actually be to build a free e-sign tool?”
Turns out not that hard.
In about a weekend, I built a UETA and ESIGN compliant tool. And it was free. And it cost me less than $50. Unlimited free e-sign. https://useinkless.com/ https://useinkless.com/
- kacesensitive 1y agoDude hell yeah
- Onavo 1y agoagree.com is free though
- rjh29 1y agoAnd Adobe Fill & Sign.
- Morenikeji44 1y ago[dead]
- aslakhellesoy 1y agoFYI: DocuSign’s moat/USP is trust, not software. DocuSign customers buy trust.
- apples_oranges 1y agoReally? Trust to send an email with a link? What else is making it trustworthy?
- KaiserPro 1y agoThat big companies use it for their important legal contracts. its a well recognised tool for contract agreements, and you pay the money so that you are indemnified for any oopsies that might happen in transit.
- MASNeo 1y agoYou’d be surprised how much trust people place in legal departments, balance sheet strength and talent capacity. All things for which I had to turn down superior technical proposals in the past. The old saying „Nobody gets fired for buying IBM“ still runs strong. Free e-signatures are a great idea, have you considered getting a foundation to back the project and maybe taking out some indemnity insurance, perhaps raising a dispute fund?
- Bolutifeh 1y ago[dead]
- fourseventy 1y agoBecause when you send a document for a $75MM contract to be signed you want to send it via a well known and trusted document signing platform like Docusign where you know everything is legit and legally defensible.
- xnx 1y agoFor a cheaper alternative from a trusted company, Google Docs has the feature.
- sejje 1y agoFirefox has it built in now, too
- ElTimuro 1y agoTrust and Regulation like QTSP and all the other red tape
- alansaber 1y agoFor a weekend, this is incredibly well done.
- kode95 1y agohttps://penneo.com/ https://penneo.com/ is a good alternative. And while I applaud your effort to do something in this space, personally I'd prefer a solution that's been thought over by lawyers, etc. Faster is not better in this particular space.
- Bolutifeh 1y ago[dead]
- luizfelberti 1y agoDocumenso[0] is a pretty cool alternative that is increasingly compliant with more and more e-signature standards https://documenso.com/ https://documenso.com/
- xk3 1y agoDidn't someone else do this recently and then DocuSign sued them?