There are alternatives: https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal
I would like esignatures to be backed by strong electronic authentication, like EIDAS
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it doesn't, not considered as a trusted (certified) provider and doesn't meet the level for secure user authentication. It's like a gadget in Europe then. But still, it is useful. It can be used if you want to ask your daughter to promise to "Get good grades at school" in exchange for an extra Christmas gift, for example. And make it look like official. It's like pretending to be signing.
In other words: is strictly less useful than a "fake analog signature" script that uses imagemagick to paste a PNG/SVG with a signature (or a random one from a directory of signatures) on the last page of the document, and then to apply some or all of random {sub-2deg rotation, tiny gaussian blur, tiny non-linear transform, color threshold, strong desaturation}, to make it seem like the document was printed out, sign…
I skip the script and (if they bother asking) tell people I have a really good scanner, a really good pen and am incredibly consistent with my signature even when I sign totally different sizes.
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#16314 months in testing, followed by a beta, is really moving too slow.
What's the rush for this?
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#164We use DocuSign here and the amount of time I spend hopping back and forth (exporting and importing) between Google and DocuSign is annoyingly high. If Google were to enter this space... I would personally welcome it.
I think this is the death of docusign right here that we’re witnessing
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#165We use DocuSign here and the amount of time I spend hopping back and forth (exporting and importing) between Google and DocuSign is annoyingly high. If Google were to enter this space... I would personally welcome it.
I think this is the death of docusign right here that we’re witnessing
Yeah, unless Google kills this product in 2 years, which has a quite high probability.
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#166What's an e-sign anyway? It's basically an IP address that's often a VPN now
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#167We are developing a digital signatures solution, https://bulksign.com which also has a on-premise version (in addition to SAAS). In Europe, at least, we see an increase in interest for customers having the solution installed on their own servers for security reasons. So more people become aware that sending your confidential documents to a 3rd party is not that great security wise.
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#168Docusign stock doesn't seem to have taken a hit (yet): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOCU/
But thankfully Jump had some insider knowledge. https://beststocks.com/jump-financial-llcs-significant-reduc...
Jump are market makers, not a hedge fund, that position was $6.5M at peak. Probably part of an options trade. But at this size 100% not an actual investment.
Those articles are auto-generated from regulatory filings. Down in that article they write about a 270 share investment, that's neither size nor notable.
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> Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better. I just find these comments to be so strange. You can look at all of the articles in that blog to see all of the feature improvements that have launched in Docs over the past 2 years. It's a lot of stuff. Maybe they're not features that matter to you, some are available only to paid customers as opposed to free tier, or maybe you just haven't bothered to e…
I've seen it regress a lot in the last two years. I have a Google Spreadsheet that I used to track investments I have in various markets. Three months ago Google stopped showing any stock quotes for ETFs in Europe. No explanation, just 'f u, we showed them for years now all your spreadsheet breaks'. I had to help myself with getting some quotes from Yahoo News via script but it's half-baked.[1] Google doesn't care ab…
I just wished they had product people that worked outside the tech bubble. I need a way to write a letter to multiple people without some scripting magic or third-party add-ons.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, the value of features follows a power law. Some features are incredibly valuable to everyone. Some features only a few people care about. And then there’s a long tail. In a product as old as Google docs, they honestly have all the important features that most people actually care about already. You can save. You can track changes. You can set up custom styles. Or embed images. You can edit docs collaboratively.…
> In a product as old as Google docs, they honestly have all the important features that most people actually care about already. You can save. You can track changes. You can set up custom styles. Or embed images. You can edit docs collaboratively. Or programmatically via their api. Documents look the same on basically everyone’s computer. And they can be in shared folders for teams. I think this is pretty interestin…
> If we were starting from a blank slate in a world where a spreadsheet hadn't existed before I suspect the perfect spreadsheet software would look pretty different to Google sheets or excel
I agree with you. But I also think at this point excel and google sheets are past the point where people would tolerate a radical redesign. If google or microsoft want to invent a better spreadsheet, I think it makes more sense to try those ideas out in a brand new product. Excel and Google Sheets are "done".