Visa List
👤 Hari Krishna Dulipudi (Solo dev with millions of Android app installs; he ranks, ships and monetizes a stack of microstartups alone - SEO is his weapon.)🌐 site1hakr.com𝕏LinkedIn
A nomad's own visa headache became a free data site that ranks on Google - and quietly earns $22K/mo at 90% margin.
Will it work? · our read
Almost pure margin. But every dollar rides on Google. Four algorithm hits have halved his traffic before, and the visa data is public - anyone can copy it. His moat is SEO rank, rented not owned.
01How the money moves
Traveler googles 'do I need a visa for X' -> lands on Visa List, free
→
Picks passport + destination; sees rules + trip add-ons
→
Affiliate cut + Pro + ads -> about $22K/mo at 90% margin, solo
02The numbers
$22K/mo
solo, 90% margin
Starter '22
500K
visitors / month
founder
100%
organic / SEO
founder
Traffic peaked at 500K/mo, fell to 150K in COVID lockdowns, then recovered. Starter Story
about $22K/mo, about $200K/yr (2022), 90% margin, 0 employees
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Starter Story: grew to $22K/mo with SEO (founder interview)Indie Hackers: 350K MAU milestone (Jan 2020)Starter Story: COVID pivot to travel-open trackingIndie Hackers: 50% revenue drop (pandemic)Hari Krishna Dulipudi - founder site (open metrics @ dworks.io)
Revenue is founder-disclosed: about $22K/mo and about $200K/yr in 2022 (Starter Story interviews), plus Indie Hackers milestones (e.g., 350K monthly users, Jan 2020) and open metrics he publishes at dworks.io/open. Marked STATED/first-party. Traffic (500K->150K in COVID, then recovered), 90% margin, solo status and four Google algorithm hits are all founder-stated. The 'free data, paid intent' framing and the Google-dependency risk are documented facts; calling them the crux is our read. We never score you.