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Idea Of The Day - Make This: LinkedIn, But Every Job Sponsors a Visa (And You Can Monetize It)
Needs To Exist
June 26, 2025
GM. This is Needs to Exist (aka NTE), dropping a startup idea to fix the broken visa job hunt.
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Daily Idea - Visa Job Match
Leaked VC Group Chat
Jobs That Actually Sponsor Visas
Inspired by the Startup Ideas Podcast
The One Liner
Jobs that sponsor visas. No guesswork, just green lights.
The 140 character tweet (or X) version
Sick of “US only” job posts? This platform filters for roles that actually sponsor your visa. Search, filter, get hired legally.
The Longer Story Version
The Problem
You’ve got the skills. The experience. The degrees.
But one line kills your shot before you even start:
“Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.”
Finding a job as an international candidate is like trying to win the lottery... blindfolded... with one ticket. You scroll through LinkedIn for hours, apply to 100 jobs, only to get ghosted because of your visa status.
There’s no filter. No clear path. Just endless guessing and rejections.
And companies? They want global talent but don’t know how to find candidates already ready to navigate the sponsorship path.
It’s a broken system where both sides lose.
The Solution
A dedicated platform where every single job is visa-sponsorship friendly.
💼 You search by visa type. H-1B? J-1? O-1? TN? Just filter.
🌎 Global companies only. Every listing is from a company that actively sponsors talent.
📄 Guides that don’t suck. Real talk on timelines, paperwork, and how to avoid the “OPT panic spiral.”
🤝 Industry matchmaking. Connect with others in your field who’ve done it before. Mentorship > message boards.
This isn’t LinkedIn. This is LinkedIn without the heartbreak.
You come for the jobs. You stay for the roadmap.
How We’d Build It
Beginner Stage: Fast MVP, prove demand
Tools: Softr or Typedream for no-code frontend, Airtable for listings
Job Data: Scrape sites like MyVisaJobs + Greenhouse job boards
Monetize: $10/month access or free with referral for early traction
Hacky GTM: Reddit posts in r/F1Visa, SEO blog posts like “Top 100 H-1B sponsors in 2025”
Advanced Stage: Add utility, build trust
Expert Stage: Become the visa hiring layer
Integrate with Workable / Lever / Greenhouse so companies can auto-list sponsorship jobs
AI Agent: Use GPT-4o + Custom GPT to be your “Visa Strategy Coach”
Global Mode: Launch for Canada, UK, Germany—each with their own visa filters
Moat: Build community + employer trust, offer verified “Visa Success Rate” scoring per company
Why It Needs to Exist
Global talent is the biggest arbitrage opportunity in the workforce.
But we treat it like a bug, not a feature.
This platform flips the game, giving ambitious people the clarity and confidence to work where they deserve to be. And giving companies the tools to unlock a literal world of talent.
Immigration isn’t broken. The job market’s just not optimized for it.
Let’s fix that.
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Leaked VC Group Chat — Visa Startup Edition
[Chat Title: Sand Hill Sharks 🦈💸]
Members:
– Brad (Thinks he’s Sequoia, actually runs a $15M microfund)
– Priya (Thesis-driven, bleeding edge, secretly just wants to help people)
– Derek (wants every pitch in 3 acronyms: TAM, LTV, CAC)
Brad:
Y’all seen this “VisaLinkedIn” thing? Wild idea. Platform where every job listing guarantees visa sponsorship. 🔥
Priya:
Wait seriously? That’s brilliant. The current job hunt for international talent is such a mess. No filters, no clarity, just vibes.
Derek:
Sounds like LinkedIn with a checkbox.
Brad:
Nah man. It’s curated. Only jobs that actually sponsor H-1B, TN, J-1. You search by visa type.
Clean. Focused. Needed.
Derek:
What’s the TAM?
Priya:
Global knowledge workers who want to work in the US. Literally every international grad student. Every dev abroad. Every AI researcher getting ghosted by Google.
Derek:
Ok but LinkedIn has like 900 million users.
How big is this? I need numbers.
Brad:
100,000+ F1 students graduate in the US every year.
Most of them panic by April. OPT expires. No job. No plan. This platform becomes their home.
Derek:
...Still feels like a Chrome extension.
Priya:
It’s not just a job board. It’s a funnel to high-intent talent.
Imagine if international candidates actually knew where they could work.
That’s a $20K+ hiring problem per head solved.
Brad:
Visa guidance, employer intros, even immigration lawyer partnerships. Monetization paths everywhere.
Freemium, premium, even B2B. Build trust, own the vertical.
Derek:
I’ll bite when they say "we're the Plaid for global talent" or something.
Priya:
You want a buzzword? Fine. It’s a “vertical labor liquidity protocol.”
Happy?
Brad:
LMAO.
But also… real.
Derek:
Any revenue?
Priya:
Early stage. But $10/mo from desperate job seekers adds up FAST.
Plus: visa success rates, employer ratings, even ghosting scores. Feels like Glassdoor meets Upwork for international grads.
Brad:
We should’ve built this tbh.
We funded an AI co-founder for dog trainers last month.
Derek:
So we’re investing?
Priya:
If the founder’s legit, I’m in.
Brad:
Already DMed them. Demo call at 2pm.
Bring your checkbook, Derek.
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