Documenso
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The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.
Timur Ercan
Single Player Mode โ€” Sign documents for free, with or without an account
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Documenso Single Player Mode is a new, free-signing experience. You can now sign documents alone for free without even creating an account! Need others to sign as well? Create a free account to get 5 signatures/ month for free with unlimited signers.
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Timur Ercan
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Hey everyone, Five months after our first Launch, Team Documenso is back, and we have much to share with you today! We want to make signing as accessible as possible, and that is why today we are launching our free tier ๐Ÿš€ โœจ We revamped the complete singing experience with the help of the community, creating a shiny Documenso 1.0 ๐ŸŽฎ We created the new "singleplayer" experience: If you want to sign a document for yourself, as of today, you don't even need an account anymore: Just upload a Document, place your signatures, and be done You can check it out here: https://documen.so/singleplayer ๐Ÿ†“ Do you need a place to store your documents after you sign in singleplayer? We've got you covered: You can create a free Documenso account, giving you a place to safely store your signed documents, as well as five free signatures per month with up to 10 signers! You can create a free account here: https://documen.so/free We are most excited about this new chapter of Documenso as we are kicking off the next wave of growth for the product. To celebrate this, we created a signature card you can share on social media after signing a document via singleplayer or a free account. We added user and user growth metrics to our open page as well: https://documen.so/open ๐Ÿ‘€ Let us know what you think in the comments ๐Ÿ™Œ Pro Tip: There are still some early adopter plans left. Grab one if you want all we build for the next 12 months included in your plan.
flo merian
awesome work since the previous launch! I had the opportunity to work with the team, and the least I can say is that these past few months have been *crazy.* we rewrote the app from scratch, introduced a new design system, and welcomed new contributors on board. what a ride! go to documenso.com and experiment with this new, delightful signing experience. hope you'll enjoy it! oh and it's open source. View source code: github.com/documenso/documenso
Lucas Smith
@fmerian Thanks Flo! It really has been a hectic few months and we're super proud of all the progress ๐Ÿš€
Rami - Browsingbuddies.com
So how does the whole single player mode different from multiplayer? Doesn't multiplayer mean that it is auditable whereas Single player mode isn't auditable?
Timur Ercan
@kingromstar This singleplayer theme is mainly meant to describe quickly signing alone without an account and without your team/ colleagues. While having an account allows a bit more audit, the document is sealed in singleplayer just the same. Singleplayer also hints at the fact that currently, the free plan does not have team members but will soon be part of "multiplayer". However, we will probably just call it teams. But mainly, you are right: It's frictionless singing with less red tape for simple signing cases โœ… We will also integrate this with the main app, making the transition seamless going forward, depending on what you need (signers, audits, etc.)
MJ Amartaivan
Congratulations to the whole @documenso team on their Product Hunt launch. The tide is turning; open source is setting the course for the future, and proprietary software will have to adjust its sails. Keep navigating forward!
Lucas Smith
@documenso @mendorshikh Thanks MJ! We're determined to deliver and join the growing tide of C/OSS companies executing and delivering delightful software without all the nasty proprietary bits ๐Ÿš€
Catalin Pit
@documenso @mendorshikh thanks, MJ! These are some exciting times for open source for sure.
Timur Ercan
Hey everyone, Thanks so much for all the support so far ๐Ÿ™โค๏ธ It's much appreciated, as we see all of you commenting and trying SP signing ๐Ÿ‘€ Here are a few cases, where we see singleplayer signing in the real world: - Signing an NDA somebody sends you randomly and urgently as a PDF - Quickly Signing a sales quota offer you send out - Signing a school waiver for a kids excursion What do you think about these cases? What other cases can you imagine? Let us know ๐Ÿ’ก Try out singleplayer signing here, if you haven't and let us know, what you think: https://documenso.com/singleplayer
Lucas Smith
@timur_ercan1 You can also use it for more mundane things like adding your details to a form from your local government or council or sealing your resume so third parties can't modify it when representing you for roles ๐Ÿ˜Ž
Tangerine
Love that I can point people to documenso for a quick sign if they need to sign this one pdf that hasn't been updated in 20 years ๐Ÿฅฐ Would love that you make this work with the looks scanned tool too ๐Ÿคญhttps://lookscanned.io https://github.com/rwv/lookscann... Oh and is this signature happening on my device?
Timur Ercan
@dominik_kugelmann https://lookscanned.io is the most german thing I have ever seen :D We will offer an api/ embed soon that should do the trick. Currently, the signing is done on the server in every case, but we will move it to the browser for all possible cases when we can.
George Tsiramua
Love the idea. I need this tool for sure. Good luck to the development team with the launch and further development.
Catalin Pit
@gtsiramua glad to hear that! Let us know if you have any feedback after you use it. ๐Ÿ™
Timur Ercan
@gtsiramua Thanks @gtsiramua, we are just getting started. There is a lots of basic stuff still to build ๐Ÿš€
Fรฉlix
This single player mode feels like the WeTransfer of Document signing: no bloated feature, no signup โ€“ it just works. It'd be great if you extended that logged out experience to send a doc to someone, a good way to quickly increase your k-factor :)
Lucas Smith
@_felx We had considered that but it would mean we need to dedicate a ton of time to catching fraud and abuse ๐Ÿ˜ช Right now we feel that a simple sign up with a card-less free plan is hopefully low friction enough for most!
Timur Ercan
@_felx That would be awesome. Sadly, Lucas is right: too much abuse potential. This is why we can't have nice things. We will make the transition seamless, though, and having an account if you send stuff makes sense anyway. We will keep an eye out, though. Could be a link you copy and share without account..
Thibault Milan
The tool is simple and neat. I love it โค Congratulation on the launch. However, I wonder about the legal admissibility of a document signed in this way. There is no verification of identity, no digital signature of the document ... are these things planned?
Timur Ercan
@thibault_milan The document is sealed like the ones signed while logged in. This, of course, is just for signatures that require a basic level of signing, as most basic signing tools just place a signature, which is fine for nonregulated cases, i.g. no loan documents. For the EU, this means eIDAS level 1, Simple Electronic Signature. TLDR; it is a valid signature but not suited for high-value transactions. It's the equivalent of singing a printed doc alone at home. As for the planning, singleplayer will be more integrated with the rest of the product step by step, making the transition seamless, depending on your singing needs. Most advanced cases profit greatly from features available with an account, so if you do something nontrivial, an account makes sense anyway. Identity verification for the signer, without an account, is very interesting; we will look into if that makes sense. If it does, we are all for it, since it would mean less friction for simple cases.
Thibault Milan
@timur_ercan1 First, thanks for the detailed answer โค Regarding auth with an account, my first though are either email/sms token. Or better, using KYC API to scan document and verify identity. That can be done under a minute and provide solid base to confirm identity.
Timur Ercan
@thibault_milan Thanks for the ideas, we are looking into those. Since SMS it not considered safe anymore, we are looking into mail and authenticators. The KYC Api will also come as part of our enterprise modules. There will be different flavors for different signing types eventually.
Naveen MC
Congrats on the Launch Documenso team. This is really huge. Also, love the generous free tier.
Timur Ercan
@mcnaveen Thanks so much, we think so too ๐Ÿš€ We plan to center the business around providing larger scale infra, casual singing should be as accessible and free as possible
Naveen MC
@timur_ercan1 Ah. interesting. Any plans for Custom domain feature?
Lucas Smith
@mcnaveen Thanks! We couldn't do it without contributors like you ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป
Catalin Pit
@mcnaveen thank you, Naveen! ๐Ÿ™
Timur Ercan
@mcnaveen Been thinking about it. It will probably be more of an enterprise case. Do you have another case in mind? We do, however plan to offer custom profiles like documenso.com/naveed for personal signing links ๐Ÿ‘€
anand
The user interface is clean and intuitive. It allows customize document signature as well as inbuilt method to sign. It's good for signing digitally (not completely digital) on online documents. From my side it's worthy to use.
Timur Ercan
@mr_anand_ mr_anand_: "I would like to award you the highest honor I can bestow" *it's worthy to use* โค๏ธ๐Ÿซก
Marc Seitz
Love this idea of single player mode for signing docs!
Lucas Smith
@mfts0 Thanks Marc! ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป
Catalin Pit
@mfts0 happy to hear that! Did you try it out yet? ๐Ÿ‘€
Timur Ercan
@mfts0 Less friction = More good
Oleg Naumenko
Congrats on the launch, absolutely loved the free tier! Do you have plans about the optional changing of the signature color? Or somehow scan the signature from an existing doc (I'm rather clumsy with a touchpad)?
Timur Ercan
@naou Didn't think about it much yet, open for ideas though :) Is the color just for sentimental reasons or something specific? Not sure what you mean by "from an existing doc". You have your signature in your account, since it's "yours" why would you want it from another doc?
Oleg Naumenko
@timur_ercan1 About the color, it's a Vietnam flashback of communicating with some crazy bureaucrats who insisted that docs should be signed in blue As for the scanning, I mean something similar to the Apple Preview function: you have a piece of paper and a crayon, you draw your signature, show the result to your laptop's camera โ€” voilร , now you have a saved signature. Although I find Apple's realization rather disappointing
Lucas Smith
@timur_ercan1 @naou We've certainly considered it but didn't feel it was top of funnel in terms of required features just yet! Certainly something we will be considering for the future ๐Ÿ˜
Ankur Tyagi
@timur_ercan1 @catalinmpit awesome work and congratulations to the entire team.
Timur Ercan
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Catalin Pit
@timur_ercan1 @theankurtyagi thank you! ๐Ÿ™
Catalin Pit
Did you have a chance to try the Singleplayer Mode yet? ๐Ÿ‘€
Johannes
SImply beautiful - well done Timur, Lucas and team! Excited to keep watching you killing it ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
Timur Ercan
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Catalin Pit
@jobenjada thanks, Johannes! ๐Ÿš€
David Biลกtiak
Good luck guys! Product looks great ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Lucas Smith
@david_bistiak Thanks David! We've put a lot of love and care into our new version to meet and exceed expectations!
Timur Ercan
@david_bistiak really appreciate this, since you are a professional ๐Ÿซก
Catalin Pit
@david_bistiak Happy to hear that! Thanks, David! ๐Ÿ™
Nevo David
Looks great! Good luck!
Timur Ercan
@nevo_david Thanks man :) did you tried SP already? ๐Ÿ‘€
Catalin Pit
@nevo_david Thanks, Nevo!
Congrats team Documenso Singleplayer Mode on the launch!
Timur Ercan
@manmohit Thanks so much ๐ŸŽ‰ Did you give it a try? ๐Ÿ‘€ we love feedback..
Gadir
Sounds interesting. After seeing the response to PH, I am confident that it is a useful product. True, I donโ€™t know what the difference is between a regular signature ๐Ÿ™ˆ
Timur Ercan
@gipetto's signature is the same, but the signer is not verified (just minimally, as you only get the document to your email). This is why it's not meant for every case, but it's a lot easier for simple ones. e.g., I just signed some self-created receipts for the German tax office, so I don't have to print them (ugh) or use another tool, forcing me to create and account and/ or pay for it.