Changelog

What actually shipped, in order. No marketing gloss — this is the real build log.

Aug 4, 2026

Your photo and company logo now animate into the signature itself, on Pro — uploaded images are re-encoded on arrival, which also strips the location metadata phone cameras attach to photos.
Editing a design actually edits it. Asking for “more gold” used to redesign from scratch and could come back with a different animation entirely; it now changes what you asked for and leaves everything else alone.
Saved signatures are editable from the dashboard — reopen, adjust, rename, and re-render. Editing keeps the same image URL, so Gmail recipients see the update without you reinstalling anything.
Upgrading now removes the watermark from signatures you already made, instead of only new ones.
Added password reset, and fixed email signup landing on a blank sign-in form instead of telling you to check your inbox.
Closed a hole that let anyone generate watermark-free signatures without an account.
Fixed rate limiting counting everyone behind a Cloudflare location as one user, which could exhaust the daily free designs for a whole region.
Signature files are roughly half the size, and the home page no longer downloads 5MB of examples before you scroll to them.

Marketing site (bylinesig.com) and app (app.bylinesig.com) split onto separate hosts, same deployment.
Refined the accent color and added a persistent nav bar with a subtler glow.
Fixed the rendering engine dropping icon links and the verified badge in some layouts — the example gallery now shows real variety instead of near-identical cards.
Closed a gap where a signature link could carry an unsafe URL scheme.
Added use-case pages (Founders, Realtors, Creators, Sales, Developers) and this changelog.

Switched Pro from a one-time $19 purchase to subscription billing ($6/mo or $48/yr) — the same lever every real competitor in this space uses.
Added self-serve billing (Stripe Customer Portal): manage payment method, cancel anytime.
Replaced the old CSS-mockup example wall with a real, filterable gallery rendered by the actual engine.
Shipped install guides for Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail.

Closed an account-takeover gap: email verification is now required before a password can be used to sign in.
Locked down server access to Cloudflare’s IP ranges only.
Set the project up properly on GitHub — real README, license, no stray files.

Added accounts: password, Google sign-in, and magic-link email, plus saved signatures.
Shipped SEO basics — sitemap, robots.txt, structured data.
First Stripe integration: Checkout, invoicing, entitlements.

BylineSig went live on its own domain with real HTTPS.
The generator shipped: describe a vibe, get an AI-designed animated signature, in three steps.
Rate limits and a production build for launch.

Project started: validated the idea, chose the stack (Remotion for animation, dual auth, per-transaction billing with no fixed costs), and built the first design and rendering engine.