Open Startup
Platform
Feuille de route
31 déc. 2024
TLDR: Documenso is growing, and 2024 was awesome.
As 2024 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to reflect on the year we’ve had at Documenso. As a founder, it often feels like everything is happening everywhere all at once. That’s why reviewing the year is the perfect moment to reflect and appreciate just how much we’ve accomplished in 2024.
At the start of the year, we were in full-on building mode, and we’ve shipped so much since then. More importantly, we transformed from a tech-driven project with early adopters into a growth-focused company, producing results in a structured way. As the year ends, we’re also seeing a nice boost as the SaaS industry as a whole takes a breath of fresh air.
Notable Numbers
• ~3X our customer base with our new plans.
• ~5X our revenue and 6X our MRR.
• Currently growing at a healthy 15% MoM in MRR.
• We’re just a hair’s breadth away from 10K users.
• Serving customers in 37 countries, from El Salvador to New Zealand.
• Biggest markets: US and Germany.
• ~23% of users signed up after being recipients of a signed document.
• 63% YoY increase in traffic, now at 7.7k monthly visitors.
• Merged 463 Pull Requests this year (That's more than 1 each and every day).
• Collected more than 51k signatures and signed ~70 documents per day.
Looking back, it’s incredible how much has happened—far too much to cover in one article. Here’s a month-by-month breakdown of some highlights:
Monthly Highlights
January:
We moved away from Linear in favor of GitHub to better focus the team and community.
(“Looking back, it feels like a lifetime ago!”)
February:
We had our 2nd Launch Week, adding Teams, Templates, Public API, Zapier + Webhooks, and Profiles.
It’s wild to think these features didn’t exist 10 months ago!
March:
We focused on onboarding Teams customers, fine-tuning February’s features, and improving stability.
Learned big lessons about balancing cutting-edge tech with resilience while moving to Server Actions and back.
April:
Shipped Documenso 1.5.4 with passkey support, enterprise 2FA, and other updates.
May:
Shipped 8 Release Candidates, culminating in 1.5.5, which introduced API-based pre-filling and inspired our platform plan.
June:
Launched Template Direct Links, simplifying recurring workflows, and hit 100 Early Adopters!
July:
Released 21 CFR Part 11 support for FDA-regulated businesses.
August:
Reworked field structures, added custom fields for manual or API use.
September:
Released Embedding, enabling native signing flows anywhere.
October:
Soft-launched a platform-oriented offering and onboarded our first 4 platform customers.
November:
Started Project Babel, adding German, French, and Spanish language support.
December:
Launched the platform plan on Product Hunt, refreshed our website, and moved to Framer.
Looking Ahead to 2025
As we refocus on the platform aspect of Documenso, our product-driven inbound strategy is shining. Self-service signups are climbing, and we’re actively pursuing larger platform and enterprise customers.
Our goal for 2025 is to grow enterprise adoption as our major driver, while still serving smaller plans. Documenso is evolving into the missing signing component in everyone’s tech stack. We’re focusing on higher compliance standards (SOC2, HIPAA, etc.) and evolving the product further toward a platform offering.
Big shoutout and thanks to all of our supporters from investors to partners, customers and cheerleaders of any kind. We are glad to have you with us and couldn't do it without you. We also wouldn't want to. The whole Documenso team is hyped to continue this journey with you!
Here's to 2025 and building more open tech 🎉
As we say in Germany, have a nice slide into 2025 😎🍾
Best from Hamburg
Timur