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docuseal.co
2 points·by somery·há 3 anos·3 comments

Show HN: Embeddable DocuSign alternative via native Web Components

docuseal.co
6 points·by somery·há 3 anos·5 comments

Show HN: Creating Fillable PDF Document Forms with HTML

docuseal.co
8 points·by somery·há 3 anos·4 comments

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somery
·ano passado·discuss
It's great that such communities exist, but I personally prefer Discord
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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 costs to be built - and then it comes only to our ability to build a great product to come over the competitors.

Regarding the compliance we're focused on simple eIDAS signatures for the EU and also we follow the UETA and the ESIGN Act.
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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 being bootstrapped.

Here is a short list of what the tool can do:

- Automatic eSignatures

- Multiple submitters

- 10 document form field types

- Emails via SMTP

- AWS S3, GCP, Azure Cloud files storage

- Open large files up to 500MB

I'm happy to answer any questions!
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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 DOM which brings many limitations). Also it loads much faster than any equivalent iframe solution
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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...

Basically instead of using JS snippet for mounting the UI - we're using a custom web element so it can be embedded just with HTML tag without JS.
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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.

Here are some benefits over iframe:

- faster load speed

- easy to customize

- optimized on different screen sizes

Also there is a React components library which also works with SSR Next.js https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal-react

Looking for some feedback and would be happy to answer any questions.
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
Thanks! :)
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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 US and EU regions. Our goal is to create a developer-friendly document signing infrastructure, similar to how Stripe has revolutionized the payment infrastructure. The HTML API described in this blog post is the first step of this initiative. You can find more information about the developer tools at DocuSeal here: https://www.docuseal.co/integration.

Looking for some feedback and would be happy to answer any questions.
somery
·há 3 anos·discuss
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 (https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal) I use server render everywhere except of the 2 most complex/dynamic UI parts (drag&drop form builder and the signing form). I think just figuring out which approach fits best for which part of the software is the most important thing, doing both SSR and CSR in a single project is completely fine when done right.