VisaWhen – Data on US visa issuance backlogs
Heya! Not the usual sort of thing to be posted here, but I wanted to show off what I made yesterday. Here's a sample page about H1-B visas issued in Bogota: The code is source-available (not open source) at . It's my first time choosing a source-available license over MIT, mainly out of fear of existing immigration startups just gobbling this data and code up; frankly I didn't think the implications through though, I just threw a safe license on there. The way the project works is: - Use requests-html to find publicly available PDFs from government pages - Use camelot to OCR the PDFs and…
VisaWhen – Data on US visa issuance backlogs launched on July 1, 2021 with 104 votes, #478 of 3,502 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
VisaWhen aggregates publicly available data on US visa issuance backlogs from government PDFs, allowing users to track processing times and issued visa counts by consulate and visa type. The tool extracts information from thousands of government documents using automated PDF parsing and OCR, then presents the data in searchable, accessible web pages. It serves visa applicants, immigration attorneys, and policy researchers seeking current visa processing information.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
In the maker’s words, at launch
Heya! Not the usual sort of thing to be posted here, but I wanted to show off what I made yesterday. Here's a sample page about H1-B visas issued in Bogota: <https://visawhen.com/consulates/bogota/h1b> The code is source-available (not open source) at…
Does a similar job
all alternatives →- VEVisa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA2015 · data.jobsintech.io · ▲582
- H1H-1B Salary Data ExplorerJan 2026 · ▲28
Excited to share my New Year’s project. For a long time, I’ve wanted to build H-1B data directly into Levels.fyi. Every time I went looking for this data elsewhere, it was a frustrating experience to use. Most H-1B sites felt antiquated, unintuitive, cluttered with ads, or just overwhelming to use. The data was there, but it wasn’t usable, and definitely not pleasant to explore. So out of that frustration, I decided to build the H-1B data experience I personally wanted to use. Right into Levels.fyi. https://levels.fyi/h1b/ Some other pages I'm excited about: Wage Heatmap:…
More dev tools this month
the category →
open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 28d ago · github.com
Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 26d ago · github.com
OpenBot▲362Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer
Dev tools · 23d ago · openbot.run
Talanoa▲346Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…
Dev tools · 21d ago · talanoa.email
CoreSpeed▲332One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools
Dev tools · 28d ago · corespeed.io
Source: Show HN post ↗ · launch text quoted in part
Launched alongside, July 2021
the whole month →
Typedream▲1,426No-code site builder, easy as Notion, pretty as Webflow
Dev tools · 2021 · typedream.com
An 8-week founder program inspired by Product Hunt
Life & fun · 2021 · hyper.com
200+ open source alternatives to popular B2B tools
Dev tools · 2021 · btw.so
Het beste casino zonder vergunning voor Nederlandse spelers kiezen? Ontdek waar je op moet letten en hoe je een betrouwbaar platform vindt dat aansluit bij jouw voorkeuren.
Life & fun · 2021 · static.wiki
