[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":728},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-5434186":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":48,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":75,"maker_in_thread":205,"shape":216,"grid":219,"attempts":690,"same_week":691,"maker_shows":40,"maker_hidden":720,"reader_version":721,"card":722},"5434186","My side project","Do I need a visa for...?","title","Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.doineedavisafor.com\u002F","doineedavisafor.com","jlangenauer",1364165692,2013,248,158,51,1739,3,"notable","web_saas","travel visa lookup","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"visa requirements","travel visa","visa checker","passport visa","mixed",-0.086,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},20,42,12,31,105,{"design":37,"idea":39,"execution":41,"privacy":44,"docs":46},{"positive":18,"critical":38},7,{"positive":33,"critical":40},1,{"positive":42,"critical":43},2,16,{"positive":45,"critical":42},0,{"positive":40,"critical":47},4,[18,42,40,42,40,42,18,45,49,18,18,45,18,40,18,18,49,42,47,18,42,49,42,42,47,49,42,18,18,18,47,40,42,40,40,47,40,18,40,49],5,null,{"problem":52,"audience":64,"pricing":50,"motivation":50,"time_to_build":50,"stack":72,"openness":73,"stage":74,"team_size":73},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Hard to find reliable visa requirements for a given citizenship and destination.","inferred",[56,60],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"5434777","redact207","GREAT idea. I travel with my girlfriend often and it's a massive pain to work out visa requirements in countries, especially with \"com\" companies now setting up pretending to be…",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"5434617","inovator","Thank you so much! Your site saved us big time! My girlfriend is from one of the visa waiver countries, and she is coming to the U.S. to visit me in June. And guess what? We have…",{"value":65,"source":54,"evidence":66},"Travellers checking whether they need a visa.",[67,71],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"5434441","nategraves","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…",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":76,"objections":97,"requests":140,"questions":163,"alternatives":180},[77],{"value":78,"source":79,"evidence":80},"Useful, clean interface for quick visa checks.","commenter",[81,85,89,93],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"5437703","stevenp","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…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"5434451","frankdenbow","Yes! 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!",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"5434381","sobbybutter","Thanks for making this! I'm making travel plans right now and it's quite handy.",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"5436220","phryk","Wow, thanks. That's one of the question I often couldn't find an answer for and thusly has kept me from travelling a few times. :)",[98,117,129],{"value":99,"source":79,"evidence":100},"Data is incomplete; many country pairs show no information.",[101,105,109,113],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"5436789","chipmunkninja","Humm ... Doesn't work for a huge number of things I entered: Have a lot of friends and family in Asia, and too many answers are \"dunno, sorry\".",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"5434692","prawn","Tried Australian going to Morocco and China. \"Sorry, we've no information available.\" Could've got more data in there before playing your \"Show HN\" card maybe.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"5434682","gottagetmac","United States -> China (a pretty important route that does require a visa) says no information.",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"5436156","seszett","I tried a few destinations and found no information for any of them (from Canada\u002FFrance to China\u002FTaiwan for example). Also, \"French Guyana\" doesn't have different requirements…",{"value":118,"source":79,"evidence":119},"Some entries are incorrect, such as the US to China route and Schengen pairs.",[120,121,125],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"5434415","drazvan","A quick rule of thumb for European Union member states: no visas are needed for any EU citizen to go any other EU country (as a tourist). It shows that I need a visa to go from…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"5434375","yesimahuman","Nice work! Noticed one issue though: did a US Citizen -> Brazil check and it said I didn't need a visa but then says I do need one.",{"value":130,"source":79,"evidence":131},"Sources and data maintenance are unclear.",[132,136],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"5436801","danellis","Here's why I don't understand the point of a site like this. I don't know anything about the site. I don't know if it's accurate. I don't know if it's maintained. I can't trust…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"5436120","TheBindingVoid","I wonder how you keep the visa requirements up to date. I've worked on a visa project before and I know that visa requirements change all the time and there's no central place to…",[141,152],{"value":142,"source":79,"evidence":143},"Show a map of visa-free destinations.",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"5434686","wting","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…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"5435585","munimkazia","Amazing idea, but you probably need more data. I got married recently and we haven't got around to our honeymoon yet. I did a few queries which were relevant to me and they…",{"value":153,"source":79,"evidence":154},"Add crowdsourced comments or a public API.",[155,159],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"5434407","sav-henderson","This is awesome! You should also add the ability to post comments about visas and the visa process, since in my experience, some border crossing agents try to overcharge you and…",{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"5435452","anonfunction","Awesome idea and it works great. What would be really cool is providing a public API. I'm working on building a site that list conferences and this would be really beneficial to…",[164,169],{"value":165,"source":79,"evidence":166},"How is the data kept up to date?",[167,168],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},{"value":170,"source":79,"evidence":171},"Where does the data come from?",[172,176],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"5434886","wyclin","This is awesome. Where did you get all the data from btw?",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"5470646","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…",[181,191,198],{"value":182,"source":79,"evidence":183},"Visamapper",[184,188],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"5434625","udit99","So about a year ago, I created Visamapper(www.visamapper.com) for the same purpose.I ended up crowdsourcing the data. Slightly different take on the interface as your project.…",{"id":189,"by":186,"text":190},"5434700","Your suggestion sounds exactly like \u003CShameless_plug> Visamapper (www.visamapper.com) \u003C\u002FShameless_plug> But DoIneedAVisaFor is a more direct way to answer the question if you…",{"value":192,"source":79,"evidence":193},"DoYouNeedVisa",[194],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"5434550","opinicus","Interesting project. Outside of interface choices, are there any differences between this and some of the existing offerings like DoYouNeedVisa[1] or VisaMapper[2] (which is…",{"value":199,"source":79,"evidence":200},"VisaHQ",[201],{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"5435169","vette982","Serves the same purpose as http:\u002F\u002Fwww.visahq.com\u002F, but it would nice to see a better presentation.",{"comments":33,"answered":18,"key":206},[207,210,213],{"id":208,"text":209},"5434729","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.",{"id":211,"text":212},"5434640","The first one of those has some rather questionable information, so I wouldn't plan your trip based on what it says. 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