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saradhion I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Could you please help with any insights about the social media vetting rules? This has been a blackbox to the visa applications - started with student visas, now being forced on work visas too from Dec 15th.

saradhion Ask HN: My browser extension is cloned. Will the Code Copyright help?

That's not the case. There is no LICENSE file in my published extension

saradhion Ask HN: Post Your Startup

https://visaholics.com - a platform for the US Visa applicants by US visa holders

saradhion Ask HN: What is cheapest way to just receive (not send) email to a domain I own?

zoho.com gives 5 emails for free FOREVER. setup the mx records and that's set.

saradhion Tell HN: Gmail rate limiting emails from AWS SES

Thanks you all for comments. I have made a decision to subscribed to dedicated IPs (credits: @slau).

The differentiating factor between our current AWS SES plan and the competitors (mentioned in the comments) is having a dedicated IP. With our current volume, none of the competitors are anyway near AWS SES costs. So, moving to a dedicated IPs thats cost 25$ extra not only solves our issue, but also no change in code/infrastructure.

saradhion Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

Not all Chrome Extensions work on it. It has issues.. Having a native browser supporting the desktop extensions on the mobile is much needed.

saradhion Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

For a moment, I got excited for this. It did not turn up good, as the chrome extension I wanted to try is not working.

saradhion Show HN: Location Finder – Find the best location to meet your remote team

Nice and easy interface - I like it. User preferred Dates or month preference can make it more useful.

Also, "optimal location to meet your friends" is better use case than "meet your remote team".

saradhion Show HN: Sumplete – A logic puzzle game invented by ChatGPT

Wow!! Thanks for the about page.

saradhion Ask HN: Need guidance to transition from Tech/Programming to Product Management

Thanks for the input. I've considered that option, visa support is challenging for Startups

saradhion Ask HN: Any startups focusing on US non-immigrants?

Here are some websites that are helping US non-immigrants. h1bdata.info provides a list of companies that sponsor H-1B visas along with the job titles and salary

checkvisaslots.com informs about visa slot availability in India

visaholics.com a community that shares US visa experiences

boundless.com .. . ..

saradhion Ask HN: Any startups focusing on US non-immigrants?

Why would you expect startup having special privileges. There are websites like

h1bdata.info which provides list of companies that sponsor H-1B visas along with the job titles and salary

checkvisaslots.com which informs about visa slot availability

visaholics.com a community that shares US visa experiences

boundless.com .. . ..

saradhion Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

Checkvisaslots.com - recently picked as one of 12 Google's favourite chrome extension for 2022. It got the attention more than I expected, been a big hit.

I've expanded the service to visaholics.com (yet to generate revenue) where visa applicants can share their experiences.

saradhion Ask HN: How long did your MVP take to develop?

Dev API service - 50-60 hours including UI. I did that in 2019 (4 digit MRR)

Replica of the above one but lighter version 10 hrs. Built in 2020 (4 digit MRR)

Immigrants platform - around 30-40 hrs - built in 2021 (5 digit MRR) - outsourced 20%

saradhion Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits

I came here to see more website links with one-man shows that are beating 150k/m.

saradhion Show HN: Reflio – Open-source affiliate program creator for SaaS

We recently moved away from Rewardful to Tapfiliate. The only reason being - provide an option to the user to add the conversion. With only Stripe integrated for tracking it is hard to onboard businesses other than from the US.

saradhion Ask HN: How do you and your spouse handle big income differences?

Apart from "Husband-Wife-relation" and "money shouldn't be in between a relationship" comments. Here is my take and what we do.

Have you tried a shared account? Every month, each deposit the same amount of money, lets say 4K each, towards house and common expenses anything you both/the family spend. All extra money carry forwards and utilize it for more payments towards the house loan, extra purchase for the home or a happy vacation trip. Always maintain a positive shared-account balance. Anytime the balance goes negative, split it equally and reload it.

P.S: My wife earns more than me. She spends on her dresses and bags with her money in the bank, I spend my money on keyboards & shoes.. We never found any issues with that..

saradhion Tell HN: PayPal Charges 10.57% in Fee (USD-INR)

Wow. Never knew Wise offers business account going to open it now. Hoping this works.

saradhion Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out

I cant edit the post, hence posting an update

I guess this has brought the attention at the Google. The verification is done. I was able to renew immediately. The site is up and running now. I am going to transfer this domain too under porkbun.

saradhion Ask HN: Fake Resume Keywords Finder

I've built a SaaS service for this in 2017. After a year, I killed the service to concentrate on another project (which I'm currently continuing). A couple of reasons why I stopped it

> 1. I did not spend any marketing efforts because it was not making any money

> 2. I had doubts if a recruiter will come to this platform only to check a Fake resume

> 3. As I have no experience in recruiting I couldn't decide on what would be the best pricing for the service

> 4. Lastly, I stuck with another idea, that is more generic for the people on the internet to use it

saradhion Ask HN: How you do secure your APIs?

API Keys

saradhion Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents

Shameless Plug: Want to try at 0.025/page on the UI? We can help you.

saradhion Ask HN: Where did you find your technical (or non-technical) co-founder?

YC school already provides a platform for this. Feel free to check it out.

saradhion Facebook Pay

WOW. Available in Pakistan, while Stripe is yet to enter and PayPal gave up.

saradhion Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

I run https://extracttable.com - an API to extract tabular data from images & tables. To keep it simple call it image to excel conversion service. I fully built and managing the service. I'm looking for a SEO person and a B2B marketing person.

saradhion Ask HN: How do I sell my API?

Here is how I did. I have published the service I built on HN & PH. It was only a demo page that did not need signup to try. I had the pricing section as well, but when the user clicks the "Pay" button - I displayed a pop-up "Contact <email> for the pricing. As an early user, we have a discount for you". I manually created and sent a PayPal invoice in response to the emails.

We integrated the PG only after 3 months when we received at least one email per day for an entire week. In between, we were quickly patching the servers when needed, listening to the paid customers and building features and making improvements.

saradhion Show HN: Extract Table from Image

You should consider extracttable.com

P.s: I run the linked resource.

saradhion Where to find engineers with customer experience?

I second this. They can be a value add to find new avenues too.

saradhion Show HN: OCR Invoices and Receipts in Seconds Using Go SDK

I think so - we are offering at 2.5x lower in B2B deals, although beta. Do you, as a consumer, feel ok with 0.16$/ invoice?

saradhion Show HN: OCR Invoices and Receipts in Seconds Using Go SDK

Congrats on your launch and recent 12M funding. I'm curious about your business - we are in a similar (not the same) space. Your pricing of $0.08 Per Receipt, $0.16 Per Invoice is a big surprise. What is your acquisition channel?