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Show HN: Duoflag 2.0 – Immigration pathways and jobs with visa sponsorship
- betocmn 6y agoMaker here, 10 months after an initial "Show HN" with a 1.0 version. I originally built a tiny immigration eligibility calculator and got a lot of negative feedback because of an email requirement I had before displaying the results [1]. Lesson learned. I was still able to attract a few thousand users, and after talking to a lot of them, the below are the biggest learnings which were the base for this new version, built from scratch. 1) Immigration pathways - Single source of truth for immigration options worldwide. 2) Job board dedicated to companies offering visa sponsorship. This is something I wished existed 15 years ago when I was trying hard to find a way to get out from Brazil. I lived in a few countries and permanently settled in Australia. Before anything else, just by moving here, my life is at least 10x better than what I had back where I was born. And I'm not alone: In 2020, there are approximately one billion adults in the world who would like to move out from their birth country permanently [2]. As the fun part, as an old-school Django Dev, I decided to take the opportunity to experiment with full-stack javascript. I used RedwoodJS [3], which is quickly becoming my go-to stack for side-projects. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344207 [2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/124028/700-million-worldwide-desire-migrate-permanently.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/124028/700-million-worldwide-de... [3] https://redwoodjs.com/ https://redwoodjs.com/