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Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️

⭐ Very popular: 18k stars, gaining about 96 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2023 3 years old
delivery product
language Ruby
license AGPL-3.0

momentum

total stars 18k
stars added last week +96
HN peak 671 pts 3y ago
commits / week 12 cooling · -34% vs prior mo
issues closed 64% ~5d to close, median
contributors 6
release cadence weekly
last activity 4d ago

durability

backing community / independent small team
openness copyleft
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 90% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 1k/mo (+9%/mo) · + 4k total since PR#33

why it's a big deal

  • Continues the long pattern of open source unbundling closed-source SaaS in enterprise document workflows.
  • Provides full self-hosting and white-label options, addressing data sovereignty and compliance concerns.
  • Ships embedded SDKs for React, Vue, and Angular, making integration into existing apps straightforward.

under the hood

  • Built on Ruby on Rails with a Vue.js frontend and Tailwind CSS.
  • Supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL with storage on disk, AWS S3, Google Storage, or Azure.
  • Ships Docker and docker-compose setups with automatic SSL certificates via Caddy.

our take from PR#33, 2026-05-06

star history

PR#33 · 14k18k now Jul 2023Aug 2026
  1. PR#33 14k 2026-05-06
  2. now 18k + 4k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.

+9 understory score output 82 · clout 73
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#33 2026-05-06 on the radar

    Open source alternative to DocuSign

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