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DocuSeal - a Docusign-like opensource tool

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The problem      I'm not really big on endorsing services, but I found DocuSeal over the last weekend and thought I'd share some experiences with it. I've been discussing a lot lately about how people should have some basic sign before work performed stuff, even for contractors and individually owned companies so they aren't getting screwed over (there's a lot of ways to do this to someone). Personally I'm using obsidian and it's print to pdf thing to create and edit (if needed) templates for various forms and reporting situations. Platforms like google forms is nice for just generic information filled out, but doesn't do any digital signatures or provide any proofs that the data wasn't tampered/altered/or faked. So I've been trying to find a solution to suggest to others that doesn't completely suck or cost an arm and a leg.      But before I get to how DocuSeal seems to work for me on that, lets discuss this for a second so you understand t...