prakul

Global Product Head at Cars24 | Investing in products that better the world | Decentralised AI | Web3.0 | Health & Longevity

[prakul @prkl09]

@FishAudio Fish

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

DocuSign Personal: $10 to $15 per month.
DocuSign Standard: $25 to $45 per user per month.
DocuSign Business Pro: $40 to $65 per user per month.

A 10-person team on Business Pro pays $4,800 to $7,800 a year. To put signatures on PDFs.

A team of 50 pays $24,000 to $39,000 a year.

And there is a 100-envelopes-per-year cap on most plans. Send more contracts and you pay extra.

Need SMS delivery? $0.40 per send.
Need ID verification? $2.50 per attempt.
Need premium support? $5,000 to $50,000 per year add-on.

You are rationing digital signatures in 2026.

DocuSign is a $10 billion company built entirely on this pricing model.

Now meet DocuSeal.

A free and open source alternative to DocuSign.

Created in 2023 by a Ruby developer named Alex who was simply trying to sign one document and realised every solution online was overpriced or required a subscription.

Three weeks later he had a working alternative. He pushed it to GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Today it has 11,800+ stars and over 1,000 forks. Bootstrapped. No VCs. No paywalls.

Here is what DocuSeal does:

- Upload any PDF and turn it into a fillable, signable form
- Drag and drop signature fields, dates, checkboxes, file uploads, and 13 field types
- Send to multiple signers with custom signing order
- Automated email reminders
- Mobile signing on any device
- PDF signature verification built in
- Audit trail for every document
- Bulk send and templates
- Full API access
- Self-host with one Docker command

Here is what DocuSeal costs:

Zero. Forever. Unlimited documents. Unlimited signers. Unlimited storage.

DocuSign limits envelopes. DocuSeal doesn't.
DocuSign charges per SMS. DocuSeal doesn't.
DocuSign charges for ID checks. DocuSeal doesn't.
DocuSign sees your contracts on their servers. DocuSeal doesn't.

Here is the wildest part:

The median DocuSign contract per Vendr is $17,250 per year. One Reddit thread has people saying "they want me to pay $4.80 per e-signature."

Self-host DocuSeal on a $5 cloud server and a 50-person team can sign as many contracts as they want without paying a single dollar.

Your contracts never leave your server. Your client lists. Your NDAs. Your employment agreements. None of it touches a third-party company.

For individuals who only sign a few contracts a year, you save $180.
For small teams of 10, you save up to $7,800 a year.
For a 50-person company, you save up to $39,000 a year.

Your documents. Your signatures. Your server.

100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

I wanna claude like this. Feet up on the desk, custom vibe code walkie talkie. So many style points

via bharms27/reddit

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Compelled love is not love

Alan Watts was right

[Naval @naval]

You don’t want fame, you want respect.

Respect comes from living up to their standards.

You don’t want respect, you want self-respect.

Self-respect comes from living up to your own standards.

The same standards that you apply to other people.

[prakul @prkl09]

@WuBlockchain @RemindMe_OfThis in 4 months

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Argentina's Central Bank rate is 75%

But their inflation rate was 94.8% in 2022

"Argentina" comes from the latin word for silver (argentum). The river that runs by Buenos Aires is called Rio de la Plata (River of Silver). This place was clearly never meant to use fiat.

[John Constas @JohnConstas]

Your entire body emits an electric & magnetic field

Believing that outside frequencies don’t affect your biology is being delusional

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

surround yourself with people who inspire you to stretch higher and get better

[Jim O’Neill @regardthefrost]

10 years ago, we started giving teens $100k to drop out of college and create new things.

Today, @zoink’s @figma sold to @adobe for $20 billion and @vitalik’s $180 billion @ethereum merged, reducing the world’s electricity consumption by .2%.

A proud day for @thielfellowship

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Reminder: The best time to attempt a seaborne invasion of Taiwan is in October, when the Taiwan Strait is at its calmest.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Most large Indian cities weren't built in a way to handle as many people living in them today. Disasters are bound to continue. The only real solution is to have many smaller cities with their own economies.

Over 50% of our team now live there; a silver lining from Covid. 1/5

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

Life expectancy vs health expenditure🤔

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Mapping the Migration of the World’s Millionaires 💸

https://t.co/hMyCZ5R9RY

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

BREAKING: more than 100,000kg of plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).

Thank you to our determined offshore crew and supporters worldwide; together, we have now officially cleaned up 1/1000th of the GPGP.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Sri Lanka Suspends Fuel Sales Amid Economic Collapse; Asks Russians For Help  https://t.co/sxBAnINw90

[prakul @prkl09]

@TaschaLabs How will be that?

[Gaurav Munjal @gauravmunjal]

YC’s message to their portcos is the need of the hour. Loved this para!

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Thread: some still open contradictions in my thoughts and my values, that I have been thinking about but still don't feel like I've fully resolved.

[Rajeev Agrawal @RajeevInnoviti]

The developed economies are in a bind…