Online Notarization now Legal

Very interesting. I would make the "Legal" in intro, and in feature list a link - people will want to know the details, and most of them will not click the tiny link in the footer to the FAQ.

I'm very excited about this, but it would be nice to see the price without having to first upload a document.

Semi-related: I have begun work on a distributed, cryptographic and temporal notary system. Sneak peek it: https://github.com/Miserlou/CitizenMediaNotary#citizen-media...

Hopefully will be announced properly in the next two weeks. Input welcome!

If I receive a document notarized by this service, how can I trust that this service has done its due diligence? From a cursory look, I just can't believe that a document can be notarized online without even knowing if the person exists. Admittedly, I don't know too much about the notarization process, so maybe they verify things like identification given to them? Does the service explain what steps it does in order to verify identity besides uploading documents that could be easily forged?

The first thing that everyone at my office noticed when I forwarded this link - they are only open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST? Hopefully that that's the first thing that's tweaked, otherwise anybody on the west coast who wants to notarize something after 3:00 PM is still faced with heading out of the office, plunking down $5 and getting their document stamped.

I can see this being very convenient for people who are located in rural locations, though I don't know how much business those people will generate.

Of course - the biggest challenge here will be price competition and a race to the bottom. At $5/notarization, it usually takes 3-4 minutes to get somebody's passport, ID, data, etc...

Watching the video - the one thing going for signnow is it will escrow your notarized document. Maybe the real play here isn't so much notarization as a business, but the brand development of signnow by offering peripheral services.