Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign

Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by petertodd on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:22PM (#38053494)

> For comprehensive guidelines on how to use OpenSign, please consult our User Manual.

FYI, USAGE.md seems to be missing.

Also, a suggestion: while I agree with other posters that this isn't a replacement for the third-party trust model DocuSign provides, you might as well use my OpenTimestamps project to timestamp the documents OpenSign produces. Being able to prove that a document was in fact created in the past, before a dispute existed about the document, is significantly better than not being able to prove that. OpenTimestamps is free and open source, using Bitcoin so that you don't have a trusted third party. Timestamps made with OpenTimestamps are free, as merkle trees are used to allow the whole world's documents to be timestamped with a single Bitcoin transaction.

https://opentimestamps.org/

A good example of how it's been used recently is by the official election authority in Guatemala to timestamp polling documents in their recent presidential election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0nnM5_Z90E

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by alexopensource on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:27PM (#38053536)

Thanks for the suggestion. We will definitely consider this. We have just released v1 on 48hrs before. We are working hard to put together a usage guide with docusaurus. You will see huge updates to documentation soon.

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