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Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by jobigoud »

svnsch wrote: post #2

Hey HN! Over the past few months I've been coding my first side project (Nuxt Frontend, Django Backend). It's been quite a learning experience tumbling down the rabbit hole of web development, as a data scientist. Nomad Visa is a database of tourist visas and visas suitable for digital nomads, remote workers, founders and expats. More and more countries issue special visas for digital nomads to stay in their country…

Feedback: This looks very interesting but it's unclear what the site is really listing. For example I select Germany. How does it know whether I need a visa or not to work in Germany, it hasn't even asked for my country of origin?

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by svnsch »

jobigoud wrote: post #47
raviisoccupied wrote: post #9

This is cool, but I feel like I should be able to select my country of origin immediately when I select the destination I’m interested in, rather than having to reselect each time I explore a visa.

I don't even see where you can change your origin citizenship… Neither on the front page or on each destinations.

You can adjust your origin country on the tourist visa page. On mobile just refresh the page.

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by noisy_boy »

Instead of me choosing the country first, why not ask me about the passport I hold and then show all the countries that have visas that allow me to work remotely? I tried a few places and I only got Tourist Visa as available visa - gave up after a while.

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

svnsch wrote: post #39
bko wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the site! Not sure if this is the feedback you were looking for but I noticed its a bit slow though. I would look at the GET to https://api.visum.so/api/country_data/ It returns all countries data which is slow and uncompressed. Either hit it once and keep it in memory so you can switch countries easily, or better yet break it up to api/country_data/ and just send back the info for that country I would also ge…

Yes, great feedback, thx! I really need to adjust the API, calls and cache. As this is the first website i have ever built, i still have a lot to learn.

That endpoint actually is already being properly cached at Cloudfront's edge and is compressed so it could be a lot worse

edit: Just noticed this gives a Server Error btw: https://nomadvisa.io/betteruptime

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by MattGaiser »

noisy_boy wrote: post #53

Instead of me choosing the country first, why not ask me about the passport I hold and then show all the countries that have visas that allow me to work remotely? I tried a few places and I only got Tourist Visa as available visa - gave up after a while.

I find this to be a common problem with websites. They should take the customer from their starting point instead.

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by sdflhasjd »

svnsch wrote: post #42
sdze wrote: post #7

Clean WebApp but Safari alerts that the page uses a lot of memory... Not nice!

Thanks! I know about the issue and couldn't figure out how to really solve it, yet. Still a beginner in web development. If anyone has a link/info. Let me know.

It seems to run a bit oddly on Firefox on Android for me (Samsung S10e) even changing the theme from dark to light took a few seconds.

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by is0tope »

svnsch wrote: post #48
is0tope wrote: post #4

Looks really good! Did you do both the backend and the front end yourself?

Thank you! Yes, it has been quite a ride learning it. Backend is Django (i am familiar with Python). Frontend is Nuxt (total noob in JS).

I've done django. Can't say I've done nuxt, though I have done vue before. I think your design skills are great! I've always been a backend guy and that's the part I've found really hard.

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by jll29 »

I think the European Union has great mobility rules, so one can now live anywhere, without needing papers to travel or move; now if it can manage to create nomadic visas that permit qualified workers from outside to join this system (like the US O-1 visa, but valid for all EU countries), it would be a great driver to innovation in Europe. (I will share that idea with the Commission.)

Can't speak to the legal elements other than suggest work with a specialized law firm to get through arcane rules for living in x working in y (as lawyers say when you ask them a question, "it depends") - it's expensive but perhaps you can bake it into your cost of contracting. Not just the visa and work permit questions are tricky, also taxation: the UK has something called IR35, which has recently made it harder for freelancer even in the country to do contract work.

PS: From November and May onward, I will likely need 1-2 data science researchers for 36 months, so if you are potentially interested in working in Germany and have a curious mind and a background in machine learning and NLP, e-mail me at leidner at acm dot org.

Re: Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

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Post by svnsch »

noisy_boy wrote: post #53

Instead of me choosing the country first, why not ask me about the passport I hold and then show all the countries that have visas that allow me to work remotely? I tried a few places and I only got Tourist Visa as available visa - gave up after a while.

You can go to "digital nomad visas" for e.g. and explore all countries with this kind of visa. Also in "country view" you can see and filter countries for the types of visas you are interested in. The origin country mapping is currently only done with tourist visas.
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