Show HN: Github for Contracts

Things like this are potentially crazy-huge[1]. When contracts are flying back and forth, it is nearly impossible to detect small changes in already-reviewed sections. Does Comparisign cope with editing format changes? Sadly it is not uncommon for parties to switch format (normally from word to pdf) to hide the fact they are making changes.

The big nut to crack to really complete the offering is approvals. Currently some large companies use things like Exchange meeting invites and the such with "if you mark as attending, this will count as approving the changes" and other such tricks. Allowing for each individual change to be approved, then to require pulling the latest copy directly off the site and printing for final signing would fix so many problems, and make life a lot easier in big companies.

And things like this are for more than just contracts - all kinds of business documents from minutes to employee reviews require approval by multiple parties

Throw some auditing and standards[2] around it, and you'll have a very tempting enterprise offering indeed! Long term, look to implement various forms of SSO, made massively more complex by the need to allow at least two separate organisations to work together on documents.

[1] I've heard this asked for by a number of people I know, all of which have said this would have avoided a number of headaches for them!

[2] ISO 27001 at the least. 99.5% uptime would be the minimum, and get someone with some service management experience involved to do a proto-SLA. And even though you're not explicitly storing card details, your clients might want card and bank account details in there, so don't be surprised if PCI-DSS is asked for at some point

Looks cool. I downloaded the diff PDF and it rendered correctly in evince on Fedora 18, without a single warning. I routinely see GVFS warning in terminal for many PDF documents with evince. I'm impressed.

The idea itself is equally interesting. However, I don't understand the legal nuances enough to know whether this can really catch up. Best wishes to you!

Can you identify whats different between this and say DocuSign, HelloSign, Simpler, and a few other document sharing/editing comfirmation services that exist?

boom. assuming legal documents is primary use case v1?