I got a cease and desist from DocuSign for my free SaaS.
A couple of months ago, I saw a tweet from @awilkinson: “I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative?”
Me being naive, I thought “how hard could would it actually be to build a DocuSign alternative?”
Turns out not that hard.
In about a weekend, I built a UETA and ESIGN compliant tool. And it was free. And it cost me less than $50.
So I thought I’d share it out for free. Tweeted (Xeeted?) a link out. Went viral. At the time, I was charging $0 for it. Completely free. Had a over a thousand users sign up on the first day. All is great right?
Until DocuSign sent me an email. That I’m “in violation of Docusign’s intellectual property”. For “disseminating false and misleading statements regarding Docusign”.
What?
I never stole anything from DocuSign or made misleading statements about DocuSign.
They basically got scared that I created a free e-sign tool.
So what did I do with my free side project with a legal budget of $0?
Continued building of course. Shipped new features. Made the free product even better. It’s crazy how I now have thousands of users on Inkless who love the product.
DocuSign - maybe next time it’s better to listen to your customers rather than sending cease and desists?
@DOStatus My app on app platform is failing to connect to a managed redis database, can access redis database from my local PC. website not responding as a result. please help
@criminalplaza This thread is actually ridiculous, calling men bad fathers etc based of these questions ...
I think if the children in this video were also asked if they could have a new father, the answers would be a resounding NO!
@nico_jeannen Oh my bad, I should have stated, the website is still a work in progress 🫣, but this is the landing page I was planning to go for.
Totally understand if an image is not enough to work from, thank you for your time though 🙏💫