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Comment · 6 days ago
I'm building Fillvisa (https://fillvisa.com/)

I built a prototype and shared it travel/immigration subreddit. Note, my product is 100% free, no-login and (most importantly), solves a pain problem in a niche.

There's a paid version (https://plus.fillvisa.com/) for Immigration professionals. Tbh, I don't directly market it that much.

I also decided to open-source Fillvisa (https://github.com/athos2113/fillvisa-os) . Can't say it has directly helped in acquiring users, but, it defintely helped buid trust, brand credibility.

So, my actual product is B2B or B2P (Prosumers). I decided to build a ungated free B2C solution And, also an open-source version

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Comment · 1 month ago
Interesting approach.

How would turning the PDF into JPG allow you to edit/write inside?

Comment · 1 month ago
Yup. Those fields are dynamic, encoded in XFA -> JS. But, you can only access them via Adobe
Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks!

Primarily by sharing the web version (fillvisa.com) on subreddit and FB groups. People complain about the USCIS PDF regurlarly, so, I just pitch them the website

Comment · 1 month ago
I'm buildingan open-source way to fill U.S. immigration forms without fighting clunky PDFs

Github: https://github.com/athos2113/fillvisa-os

Demo: https://fillvisa.com/demo/

US Immigration still relies on outdated XFA PDFs - you can't fill them on your browser. Most immigrants end up printing the form and fill it manually.

So, I converted the PDF forms into smart web forms. They are replica of the official USCIS forms and follow conditonal logic. In the output, you get the official USCIS pdf form filled.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think if you are building SaaS: specifically, a self-serve SaaS (no sales/demo call), then you can build a scalable 1-person company

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