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somery

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About somery

Creator of DocuSeal

https://www.docuseal.co

https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal

alex@docuseal.co

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43018888

    It's great that such communities exist, but I personally prefer Discord

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    Comment #38263760

    In this highly competetive market we're currently more focused on things that we can do better like on-premises and embedding/API. DocuSeal doesn't require any significant initial …

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    Comment #38263308

    Hi everyone, Alex here, one of the co-founders of DocuSeal. We're using Ruby on Rails and Vue to build DocuSeal and it really helps us to stay lean and ship features fast while bei…

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    Comment #37501864

    When comparing to Iframe our JS-based solution better adopts to the existing page layout due to the fact that it embeds into the existing page DOM (when iframe lives in it's own DO…

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    Comment #37480646

    The solution utilizes a native web elements (aka web components) browser API for easier embedding into websites: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone... Bas…

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    Comment #37480500

    Hi, it's Alex from DocuSeal. Recently we released a new embedded JS api for document signing at DocuSeal. Instead of doing it via iframe we decided to provide a JS-based solution. …

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    Comment #37322385

    Thanks! :)

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    Comment #37320979

    Hi everyone, my name is Alex, and I'm the CTO and Founder at DocuSeal – an open-source alternative to DocuSign. Recently, we launched DocuSeal Cloud, which is available in both the…

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    Comment #37239342

    I mostly agree with the author. After working a couple of years with React client render and API a pure server render seems to be a way more productive. For my recent OSS project (…

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    Comment #36834622

    Self-hosted Docuseal also sends emails to the signers - you just need to add your SMTP configs to send emails.

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    Comment #36833663

    Currently the documents are signed with PKCS#1 signature, signed documents can be verified at https://demo.docuseal.co/settings/esign (to ensure that they were produced by the tool…

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    Comment #36833662

    Yep, support for SMS verification will be added eventually with ability to bring own Twilio credentials when self-hosting it.

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    Comment #36833657

    That's a good idea! will definitely add this feature to the project

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    Comment #36833654

    Thanks, please feel free to open an issue with your suggestion to improve the tool at https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal/issues

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    Comment #36833649

    When self-hosting it it's possible use merkle tree to ensure the documents integrity (similar to how git works with its commit hashes). So to forge one document it will require to …

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    Comment #36806142

    I think that's a valid point - and actually in their terms of services say that they are not responsible for the signer authenticity. Here is a summary from their TOS: "DocuSign pr…

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    Comment #36806088

    It's hard to say at this point if something like Let's Encrypt can exist in this space - but I'm for sure going to continue offering a free Cloud SaaS option with a generous set of…

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    Comment #36805195

    Thanks for the feedback! All your UI suggestions/fixes make sense and will definitely be brought into the the tool soon! Also I like the idea of using some 'fake' legal document fo…

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    Comment #36804837

    can you please elaborate which use-cases? - maybe that's something that actually can be possible by splitting some parts of the project into MIT licensed dependencies?

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    Comment #36804279

    It's possible to use local storage or Aws s3, Azure, Google Cloud to store files. When storing locally it makes all the documents 100% owned by you - but in some cases companies mi…

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    Comment #36804159

    thanks, i think that's an interesting space to explore. there were many comments regarding the 'consistency' of the data/documents so solving this 'trust' issue especially when sel…

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    Comment #36803924

    >A self-hosted digital signature system isn't worth anything in court; the other parties will simply reject the authenticity of any data held within it and the amount you'd have to…