Friends, non-Romans, internet people...I come to you bearing a link to the project and now company I've been working on the last few years (it's completely bootstrapped) asking for advice in a combination of a Show HN and Ask HN.<p>I present to you VisaEase: <a href="http://www.visaease.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.visaease.com</a><p>If you could spare a moment to check it out, I'm hoping to get feedback on the site in general and specifically:
- Ways to increase customer conversion
- Any suggestions on how to reach the right audience of people ready to emigrate?
- Many of the site's visitors are early on in the immigration process and not yet ready for our services.
- Suggestions on ways to improve the site design, especially the homepage which I think may need a redesign
- What do you think about the style of the copy on the site?
- We created all the copy, videos, etc. ourselves and wanted to get some outside opinions from pros and semi-pros to this part of marketing
- Do you know anyone that would be interested in freelance infographic design work (we have lots of interesting stats to share, but want to do so in a fun and hopefully aesthetically pleasing way)?
- Know anyone that may be interested in investing in the immigration space?<p>I've written the code for the platform that powers VisaEase in five houses and at least three states/provinces. I've worked it in coffee shops, in restaurants, on planes, in the middle of the night, in the early morning, on "vacation". It's spanned three relationships and two day jobs. This feels like a major milestone in my life so I wanted to let you know that VisaEase is finally out there in the wild, I took extreme care in getting it right. Some of the most intelligent people I know have had difficulty navigating the US immigration system for non-employment based greens cards and visas. The process is very time consuming and plagued by some bad entrenched interests (e.g. people that purposefully want to keep the process complex and jargon filled) and essentially through much back and forth with helpful immigration attorneys, logic mapping, etc. the system can accurately (in less than 30 minutes of your time in most cases) fill out needed immigration paperwork for someone without every asking them duplicate information.<p>The first uses for the platform will be fiance and marriage based green cards and citizenship, so if you know of an international or inter-citizenship love fest you want to help along send them to VisaEase and let them know an actual immigration attorney (even our chat is staffed by an immigration attorney, not a paralegal or general support) will also review their application for free literally saving them thousands of dollars (in case they need that extra reassurance).<p>Thank you in advance and good luck with your startups as well.