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MIXED
46/100
ALIGNAI SCORE
CONFIDENCE 59.3%
Mixed Reviews
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HelloSign
Electronic signature and digital workflow platform for signing documents online.
MIXEDProposals & E-Signatures
Pricing
Paid
Learning curve
Easy
Time to value
Immediate
BEST FORSmall TeamGrowing Business
COMMUNITY SENTIMENT
PositiveNegative
WORKS FOR

Automating the signing of hiring documents (offer letters, NDAs), Backend electronic signature processing for a service, Integrating via a robust and well-documented API

KEY INSIGHT

Its robust API is praised by developers, but its monthly pricing and template limits are major pain points for growing usage.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Electronic signatures for legal documents in North Carolina (not on approved list), Use cases requiring per-request or per-signature fees (pricing is monthly with usage caps)

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

WORKED

We have used Hellosign for years, and they are modern, awesome, and always responsive.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: e-signatures

WORKED

This is what HelloSign has done since the beginning. Take a picture with your phone, send the signature in, and you can attach it to most anything.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Signing documents by taking a picture with a phone and attaching signatures to files

WORKED

When I think about how much I love HelloSign, I can imagine the appeal of a physical machine that does the mundane work of signing for you.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Signing documents digitally

WORKED

We use Hellosign's API and love working with the Hellosign team. It was incredibly easy to integrate their API into our workflow.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: e-signature API integrated into their workflow

FAILED

It doesn't look like HelloSign supports eTokens or eID cards for signatures. Why not?

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Digital signatures using eTokens or eID cards

WORKED

You can paste your signature, choose some random image to represent your signature, or even merely click to sign. Have you used HelloSign?

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Document signing

WORKED

On the backend, it just uses HelloSign for the signature.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Backend electronic signature processing for their service

FAILED

I have checked them out, and that's a total no-go. Although they claim to comply with EU law on electronic signatures, they most definitely do not: what they offer is a 'paste a PNG of your handwritten scrawl on this box' kind of service.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Electronic signatures for legal documents

WORKED

A lot of companies (including law firms and Fortune 100 corps) have had me sign documents with HelloSign with no reservation.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Signing legal documents for large corporations and law firms

MIXED

A signature pad could work too; I think HelloSign has something like that. But it's not a great solution if you don't have a tablet, since it's really hard to draw a proper signature with a mouse.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Signature pad for drawing signatures, and legal authorization for signatures

MIXED

One way (of many) would be hellosign docusign but running on ethereum main net. Of course this is only necessary if you want to produce a signature that looks handwritten (not essential for the doc to be legally-binding in the USA).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Creating legally-binding signatures for documents

WORKED

I've been using HelloSign for several years as a consumer and it's always been fantastic.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Used as a consumer for digital signatures

MIXED

While I've heard they have a nice API, they don't have the institutional credibility that Docusign and EchoSign have. Also, their pricing was way, way higher than EchoSign's.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: evaluating for e-signature integration

FAILED

APIs like https://app.hellosign.com/api/pricing are priced per signature request... that's far from a linear cost... The whole ecosystem reeks of price fixing.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Considering API for e-signatures

MIXED

Integration was easy. The Ruby SDK JS lib worked great... Customer service has been good responsive. Two slightly annoying things: (1) they don't have per-request fees if you go over your allotted usage... (2) they wouldn't let us go month-to-month.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: embedded signature integration

MIXED

HelloSign is very pretty but... one of the biggest issues with other services was the max amount of templates imposed by HelloSign and the rest. It feels very arbitrary.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: e-signatures (compared to Adobe Sign)

MIXED

The API docs looked way way better... but it's literally ten times the price of DocuSign and I don't know how long they'll be in business, so it's a hard sell.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Considered as an alternative e-signature API

FAILED

HelloSign... is not on the Secretary of State’s list and is therefore worthless in North Carolina (and they’re possibly in violation of the law for offering such services without seeking approval).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Electronic signatures for legal documents in North Carolina.

FAILED

But this option is significantly less popular than hellosign docusign. I guess the value-add for them is having a web interface, but I m not convinced it s worth the $150 year.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Signing documents via a web interface

FAILED

when considering all players in the market, including HelloSign, it was really cost prohibitive.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: e-signatures for their SaaS HR app

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