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Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by 1hakr »

EliRivers wrote: post #121
mchannon wrote: post #9

The color coding between the two most popular categories could stand to be more distinct. Discerning between aqua and turquoise is harder than I thought it would be. People with felony convictions in their home country may also be refused entry to some visa-free countries and not others, and while it's a rat's nest of exceptions and procedures to sift through, it would make this site far more interesting and useful t…

The color coding between the two most popular categories could stand to be more distinct. I second this. Came here just to say it. Far too similar.

Point noted! Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by 1hakr »

Ninn wrote: post #63
1hakr wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, i havent thought about it yet. But i guess then i have to build a company around this as it wont be a microstartup anymore!

Microstartup? Do you mean just a webpage, which is exclusively not a startup/buisness?

i meant which is completely bootstrapped and run by a single person!

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by ableal »

1hakr wrote: post #109
gnicholas wrote: post #75

Nice looking site. As others have pointed out, it's important to be 100% credible so that people can trust that the results are correct and up-to-date. The overall look of the site is consistent with this, but having "by 1HaKr" in the lower right would be a red flag for some folks who think of "hackers" as exclusively black hat. It would help the site's credibility if you linked to authoritative source documents show…

This is super useful feedback. I will change my name there. There are already links to official government websites. About driving, license, i will add that. Also thanks for pointing out the typo.

Thanks, nice tool, bookmarked. I'll second that "give an authoritative basis" advice.

Two minor items that struck me:

- Country code, I'd suggest going with alpha2 from iso 3166, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 (Portugal is usually .pt/PT =alpha2 , sometimes POR, PRT=alpha3 is kind of rare)

- Something strange about the sorting of the left column, mine goes U V V V A by country initial on (default) "visa type" ...

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by krn »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #84
_0nac wrote: post #64

Interesting, but how do you keep this up to date? These requirement change constantly and the only reliable source I'm aware of, Timatic (which is what airlines use), is copyrighted and quite tightly locked down. Wikipedia does crowdsource this info fairly effectively though, sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_c...

You do have to be careful and read the fine print. This year, I was turned away at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border (US citizen) because I had read on that Wikipedia page that it was Visa free. In fact, it is only visa free if you arrive via the Minsk airport. Fortunately I was only driving through a tiny part of Belarus on my way to Poland so it was a simple matter of another 30 minutes or so of driving to enter Pol…

To be fair, visa-free entry into Belarus for up to 30 days is a completely new thing[1]. Unlike most visa-free regimes, it's not driven by any international agreements, but rather by a Belarusian initiative to promote tourism in the country. Therefore, they can set their own requirements, and it's still not possible to take a 2-hour train from Vilnius to Minsk without a visa. The entire program can be cancelled at any time by one side, since Belarusians don't have the same visa-free access to the EU.

[1] https://www.belarus.by/rel_image/6400

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by dawnerd »

projectramo wrote: post #6

This is a handsome site. For some reason I am quite curious about this kind of thing and keep looking up passports I don’t have for countries I won’t visit. I use Wikipedia which is pretty good. What is missing is all the weird non visitor visas. For instance Canadians might work in the US on a TN visa or Australians can work on the UK for a year if they’re under some age (30? 35?) It’s that sort of thing that would…

I too would love to be able to filter by places I could remotely work legally with the least amount of hassle

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by lmm »

gnicholas wrote: post #75

Nice looking site. As others have pointed out, it's important to be 100% credible so that people can trust that the results are correct and up-to-date. The overall look of the site is consistent with this, but having "by 1HaKr" in the lower right would be a red flag for some folks who think of "hackers" as exclusively black hat. It would help the site's credibility if you linked to authoritative source documents show…

There's a lot of basic grammar issues in the copy, which is killer for a domain where credibility is everything. I could list specifics but honestly you just need to get a native English speaker to go over the whole thing.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by fermienrico »

1hakr wrote: post #109
gnicholas wrote: post #75

Nice looking site. As others have pointed out, it's important to be 100% credible so that people can trust that the results are correct and up-to-date. The overall look of the site is consistent with this, but having "by 1HaKr" in the lower right would be a red flag for some folks who think of "hackers" as exclusively black hat. It would help the site's credibility if you linked to authoritative source documents show…

This is super useful feedback. I will change my name there. There are already links to official government websites. About driving, license, i will add that. Also thanks for pointing out the typo.

Also, the visa-free and e-visa on arrival should be of different color. If anything else, e-visa should be closer to yellow since it is still a visa, albeit applied online.

Visa-free countries should have its own distinctive color.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by hk__2 »

1hakr wrote: post #128
mb_72 wrote: post #126

There are spelling errors on each page I've looked at so far (eg travel "Iternary"). Personally I'd never trust such a site; I'd rather rely on my own research of visa conditions direct from official sources for the couples of times a year I need such information. If you can somehow increase the trustworthiness of your site, this might change.

Apologies for the typo, corrected it. Currently there are offical website links, visa application link and fee links along with document checklist. You can always cross check with the official site. As next step, i'm planning to add crowdsource validation, so the data is most accurate and upto date.

Speaking of typos, there’s one on your personal website: https://1hakr.com/ "Currenctly" -> "Currently". Also I’m not a native speaker, but "Find countries to travel" sounds weird to me. Shouldn’t that be "Find countries to travel to"?

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Post by fareesh »

I personally would never use a website like this because I am not going to trust my precious travel plans and legal standing in another country to a non-authoritative website.

For my personal comfort, the problem to be solved is officially recognized information presented in a convenient way.

In fact, I have noticed that websites like this tend to add to my confusion when they contradict the official forms.

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