This is great and is certainly something I'll use as I'm exploring summer travel options. One thing I would love to see though, is a simple "yes" or "no" at the front of the sentence. I had to read "US citizens do not require a visa to visit Argentina." a couple of times to make sure I had it right.
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#12Yes! Simple and useful for me (I travel a lot, was looking up this kind of info yesterday). I would change up the background since its a bit distracting. Congrat on shipping!
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#13Great work - nice, clean interface.
One small thing you might want to consider adding is geo-ip identification of the user to detect which country they are visiting from, and default the country selected in "I'm a _ citizen" to that country.
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#14Congrats, cool.
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#15Great work - nice, clean interface. One small thing you might want to consider adding is geo-ip identification of the user to detect which country they are visiting from, and default the country selected in "I'm a _ citizen" to that country.
Yes, and it was difficult to figure out what to put after "American" and "United States" both turned up no results, but agree auto-fill would make this an easy go-to for visa information.
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#16For anyone that's wondering, there's data for about 60-odd countries in there at the moment, and I'm adding more every day.
Fwiw, I was searching for united states or american before looking for US. Just got Visas to visit Brazil, Liberia, and Ghana, so I know the process. All the sites for this info suck and you have a good opportunity to make something useful.
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#17Great work - nice, clean interface. One small thing you might want to consider adding is geo-ip identification of the user to detect which country they are visiting from, and default the country selected in "I'm a _ citizen" to that country.
Yes, that's definitely on the "to-do" list.
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#18Delta used to have an awesome frontend for Timatic (the system that all of the airlines use for determining their own liability in visa requirement issues) that I used exclusively. Sadly, it seems they've removed it from their new site.
I was able to find a similar offering[1] for free on Gulf Air's site, though.
A nice frontend to Timatic would be awesome, but I suspect that the licensing is too pricey...
[1] http://www.gulfair.com/English/info/prepare/Pages/VisaInform...
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#19It does not work in IE9 -- screen flashes but info not displayed. I use large fonts.
It DOES work in Chrome.
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#20You might want some country aliases; since the first items in the drop-down had full country names in them, I expected to have to type "united states", not "US". Works great, otherwise. Seems handy as a standalone service; it'd help even more if integrated into a travel site like Hipmunk.
Also if you can do some "folding" when matching... When I typed "vietnam" it did not match against "Viet Nam"