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Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by firemanx »

jlangenauer wrote: post #52
wting wrote: post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

Finding an actual authoritative source on Chinese visa requirements has been difficult - there's a lot of second hand information around, but nothing official that I can find.

I've visited China through Beijing and Hong Kong numerous times over the last couple years, and without a doubt the best way to do it is through a Visa intermediary such as travisa.com or A Briggs (http://www.abriggs.com). I've used others in the past, but we had an emergency trip about a year ago where one of our fellow travelers needed to go at the last minute (ie, we were leaving on Weds, and they decided to go on the Sunday before), and A Briggs helped us get them a passport and the Chinese Visa, and had it waiting at the airport for our departure. They also have agents you deal with directly.

I'll definitely use them again. The point though, is that for a nominal fee, it's just easier to have someone who does visas every day handle the China situation for you, at least in my experience.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by stevenp »

josephjrobison wrote: post #157
stevenp wrote: post #156

This is really cool, and the info is super-useful. However, your SEO links at the bottom of the page make your site look unnecessarily spammy, especially because the color and font size makes it look like you're trying to hide the links, like someone might have done in GeoCities in the 90's. I understand what you're trying to achieve, but I think you could present it in a way that doesn't look so manipulative. If you…

Where are the links on the bottom of the page that you speak of? Don't see them anywhere...

I guess he took my advice. :)

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by bratsche »

This is pretty cool. How long did it take you to build, and what were your sources of the data? And also, just out of curiosity, what prompted you to create this project? Was it something that was just interesting to you personally?

I've been working on a little side project, Magnum Opus (http://mag.numop.us). It does things like orchestra job listings, allowing people to find local music teachers, and stuff for teachers to administer their studios (such as managing assignments and lesson schedules). Maybe once it gets further along I'll do a proper Show HN. :)

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by udit99 »

salvadors wrote: post #150
udit99 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The permission to use some data is the minimum permission requested (Email address). The intent here is to use OAuth to allow easy logins, not harvest data. BTW, The entire site is open-source at http://www.github.com/udit99/visamapper , so not only can you a) Verify that there is no foul play, but b) send pull requests with alternative login methods.

To verify that there's no foul play, there would also need to be a way to check that the code on github is what is actually running on the site...

I'm not aware of how to implement such a check. Any ideas?
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