Did you ever get frustrated when you decided to travel to a new country? I made a website to help you with that by finding visa requirements for 200+ countries

Hi Reddit!

I spent the last 6 months trying to build Visalist. Now your quest for tension free visa requirements research is over.

Here's why I made this web app: A year back I became a digital nomad and started traveling. I wanted to visit all the countries that I fancied. Soon I realized that you need a visa to most of these countries, few have VOA(Visa on Arrival) and for others, you have to get it through their embassy in your home country(in my case India). So now I wanted to see the countries I could go without waiting for 3 weeks to get a visa, did some research. After few blogs and websites finally got the list. Traveled to a new country. After few months I wanted to go to another country. I had to do the same search, couldn't find the old one, found a new site which had more countries offering VOA. One of my friends told me that when he researching for Vietnam visa, he found almost 10 websites with .gov and it was really confusing. Many blogs don't have links to official websites of embassies.

To summarize the problems:

• No aggregated info of visa related info shown in a useful way.
• Most of the existing blogs and website has very less info and are usually outdated.
• Lot of research is needed even to go to a single country and this needs to be done every single time.
• Difficult to find the official website and data on many websites is outdated.
• Pay more than required money to visa agent's

So I took the matter into my own hands and decided to aggregate this info, organize and present it in a useful way to the user and so Visalist was born. While I was talking to my friends about this, I realized many people wanted something similar from a long time. So what this has is

• A simple way to find the basic requirements for all the countries you want to travel
• Simplified visa requirements like visa-free, visa on arrival, visa not required, evisa, visa required and visa refused (Yes! For North Korea)
• A simple map color-coded with visa requirements across the world so you can easily see which countries around you can easily travel to
• Visa Requirement details like duration, documents checklist and other requirements for the stay
• Which is the official website for that information

I coded, designed and built Visa List using VueJS with NuxtJS for the frontend, MySQL for backend using Golang. I was originally an android developer and learned these just to build Visa List.

I believe every person who wants to explore the world around them and would have faced the problem I faced, so could find value in what I have built. So I would love to know what you think of this and would be more than happy to hear your suggestions and feature requests. Let me know what you want to be added or removed or do I need to build something entirely!

Thanks! @1HaKr

Visalist for tension free travel

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