{"slug": "show-hn-open-source-sign-json-and-send-it-as-a-business-document", "title": "Show HN: Open-source] Sign JSON and send it as a business document", "summary": "A former international trade worker released an open-source JSON viewer that lets users sign JSON and send it to other parties as a portable business document, aiming to replace the PDF creation-and-parsing step in document exchange. The developer argues that as AI agents become first principles for handling documents, the extra document creation and parsing step will become unnecessary, and asked for feedback on whether the format could replace some document communication today. The Show HN post received 1 point and 0 comments.", "body_md": "Hi there.\n\nI used to work in international trade, and encountered many situations where people create a PDF from a system, send it to another party, and the other party parses the PDF to input into their system.\n\nAs AI agents become first principles to deal with the documents, I believe the extra document creation and parsing step will become unnecessary.\n\nSo I created a JSON viewer, where you can sign JSON and send it to other parties as a portable document. It can also display JSON data in a more document-like format.\n\nI’m wondering if such a format can be used as a replacement for some document communication today. I'd be so happy to hear your thoughts.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947702](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947702)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-open-source-sign-json-and-send-it-as-a-business-document", "canonical_source": "https://json-doc.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-03 20:57:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-03 21:06:04.775473+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "structured-data"], "entities": ["Show HN", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-open-source-sign-json-and-send-it-as-a-business-document", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-open-source-sign-json-and-send-it-as-a-business-document.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-open-source-sign-json-and-send-it-as-a-business-document.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-open-source-sign-json-and-send-it-as-a-business-document.jsonld"}}