EntryRight is a free, mobile-first visa stay planner that helps digital nomads and remote workers instantly understand how long they can legally stay — and work — in any country, without Googling or guessing.
The digital nomad population is growing fast. Millions of remote workers now move between countries regularly — and almost all of them face the same recurring anxiety: "Am I allowed to be here, working, right now?"
The tools that exist either bury the answer in dense government text, give dangerously outdated information from blog posts, or treat the question as a simple lookup when the reality — rolling windows, grey-area remote work laws, visa run calculations — is considerably more nuanced. Nobody had built a clean, calm, trustworthy destination for this exact problem.
"I overstayed my Schengen allowance without even realising it. I didn't understand the 90/180 rolling window. It cost me €500 and a border interrogation."
— Common experience across r/digitalnomad, r/solotravelResearch was conducted through community analysis — reading hundreds of posts across r/digitalnomad, r/solotravel, r/ExpatFIRE, and nomad-specific Facebook groups. The goal was to identify recurring anxiety points without survey bias. Five clear themes emerged.
Most nomads don't understand that Schengen's 90-day rule is a rolling window, not a fixed calendar period. Miscalculating this is the single most common overstay cause.
The question "can I work remotely on a tourist visa?" has no clean answer for most countries. The reality is a grey area that leaves nomads anxious and misinformed.
Every official embassy website is a different format, different language, different structure. Finding the one relevant fact takes 20 minutes — if you can find it at all.
The top Google results for most visa questions are blog posts from 2019–2022 with information that may no longer be accurate. There's no way to know without verifying against the source.
Even users who understand the rules have to do manual date arithmetic to figure out their departure deadline. This math is error-prone under travel fatigue.
When a tourist visa and a digital nomad visa both exist for the same country, nomads struggle to understand the tradeoff — cost vs. duration vs. remote work legality.
Existing tools either serve the broadest possible travel audience with superficial data, or are technically accurate but completely unusable. No tool existed that combined accuracy, calm UX and remote-work specificity.
| Competitor | Type | Remote work status | Leave-by calculator | Official source citations | Calm, stress-reducing UX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visalist.io | Travel platform | Partial | No | No | No |
| Nomad List | Lifestyle platform | Partial | No | No | No |
| Embassy websites | Government | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Travel blogs | Content sites | Partial | No | No | No |
| EntryRight | Dedicated planner | Yes — nuanced | Yes — dynamic | Yes — every result | Yes — by design |
The target user is someone who is already anxious about their legal status in a foreign country. Every design decision was evaluated against one question: does this make the user feel more or less in control?
Deliberately avoids cold institutional blues that signal bureaucracy. Warm cream (#FAF7F2) with teal accents creates calm authority — like a knowledgeable friend, not a government portal.
"Visa-free entry confirmed" is the most anxiety-relieving piece of information on the page. It surfaces as the dominant visual element on results — users see their answer before anything else.
The form asks only: passport, destination, arrival date. Complexity is surfaced progressively on the results screen — not upfront where it creates form fatigue and drop-off.
Remote work legality isn't binary — "allowed / not allowed" would be dishonest. The amber "grey area legally" treatment with a warning icon communicates nuance without paralysing the user.
A countdown date alone creates anxiety. A visual progress bar showing "3 days used · 87 remaining" transforms a deadline into an actionable planning tool.
Every result cites a specific government source with a last-verified date. This builds trust through transparency and provides a legally defensible basis for every data point shown.
To avoid the legal risk of providing immigration advice, every data point is framed as factual information rather than a recommendation. This distinction is legally critical and UX-friendly.
Rather than a buried currency converter card, a single persistent USD/GBP/EUR/CAD/AUD selector in the nav bar updates all cost figures globally — following the Google Flights pattern users already trust.
The primary use case is a nomad checking their status on a phone at a border or airport. Every spacing, font size and tap target was validated against a 375px screen before desktop.
EntryRight was built as a solo project using an AI-assisted development workflow. The goal was to validate the product concept with real users before investing in custom development infrastructure.
Analysed 150+ posts across r/digitalnomad, r/solotravel and nomad Facebook groups to map real visa anxiety patterns. Audited 6 existing tools. Identified the calm UX + remote work specificity gap as the core opportunity.
Defined the full feature set, data structure for the visaData.json, accurate stay rules for 10 destination countries across 6 passport nationalities, and all interaction patterns. Wrote the complete product brief before a single line of code.
Built using Lovable (AI app builder) with structured prompt engineering across 5 defined phases: landing page, results screen, data layer wiring, icon system, mobile optimisation. All logic runs client-side — zero backend, zero API costs at v1.
Six design passes: palette refinement, mobile header hierarchy, icon system standardisation to Lucide at strokeWidth 2, input field weight, visa options row padding, and currency selector placement. Each pass was a targeted, batched Lovable prompt.
GitHub repository connected with auto-sync from Lovable, deployed to Vercel with continuous deployment on push. Live at entryright.lovable.app with full mobile-responsive testing across iOS and Android before first share.
Three problems required the most iteration to solve well.
A new site asking users to trust visa information — with real legal consequences if wrong — needs to earn credibility instantly. Official source citations, last-verified timestamps, and restrained professional design do this without requiring an established brand.
Most UX is designed for delight-driven use cases. This product is used when people are stressed about their legal status. Every visual and content decision had to reduce anxiety, not add to it — a fundamentally different design constraint.
Remote work legality is genuinely grey in most countries. Designing a system that communicates "technically allowed, legally ambiguous" without either dismissing the risk or paralysing the user required significant iteration across language and visual treatment.
EntryRight was designed as both a useful product and a proof of concept — that a solo, non-technical founder can research, design, build and launch a real web product in weeks using AI-assisted tools, with near-zero infrastructure cost.
Total monthly cost to run: ~$25/month (Lovable Pro only). Hosting, SSL, analytics and deployment are all free. Revenue roadmap includes affiliate partnerships with travel insurance providers, VPN services and SIM card companies — all products nomads buy anyway.
The most impactful design decision was placing the visa status pill — "Visa-free entry confirmed" — as the visual hero of the results screen. Users see their answer before processing any data. Anxiety-first design demands answer-first hierarchy.
Writing a complete product brief — data structures, edge cases, country rules, copy — before prompting the builder produced dramatically better results than iterating blind. AI tools reward clarity and specificity.
For an informational tool with no established reputation, clean professional design does more trust-building work than any written claim. Users judge the accuracy of information partly by how the interface looks.
Combining multiple small fixes into single structured prompts — rather than sending one change at a time — saved approximately 30% of available AI credits while producing more consistent results across screens.
Launching with 10 countries and 6 passports rather than waiting for full coverage meant shipping in weeks not months. Real user feedback from a narrow product is worth more than a complete product nobody has seen.
Legal disclaimers placed visibly in the results flow — not buried in a footer — protect the product legally while reinforcing trustworthiness. Transparency is a feature, not a legal afterthought.