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by nemo44x 1663 days ago
A better business would be to sell an API that is legally sound for signing documents. Then everyone could implement the functionality in their own tools as a feature.
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Docusign effectively does this with all of its integrations. If you run on Salesforce, it's really well integrated. And if not, they have a great API. You can programmatically generate an https link and send that to your customers as part of your existing workflow. You email them a link or even just open up a new tab / overlay a browser. They can log in with various SSOs, they sign the form, then come back to the next stage in the workflow.

Edit: see https://www.docusign.com/products/apis

And there we go - why DocuSign is a 50b business.

Sounds like OP doesn’t understand the complexity.

Can you replicate DocuSign if you were given 50B USD ? Well, then you know if it's overvaluated or not :o)
What most people posting here don’t realize is that they couldn’t replicate docusign’s 50 billion dollar business with a copy of the source code and a time machine.
I could replicate Dropbox with rsync with far less than that (h/t to BrandonM).