Turned 9 months of immigration anxiety into a side project.
I've been an immigrant in the US for years. I know what it feels like to have your entire life — your job, your family, your ability to stay in the country — sitting in a queue at a government agency that updates its website maybe once a month if you're lucky.
So I built something about it. A WhatsApp bot that watches your USCIS case for you. No app. No account. Free to start. It just messages you when something changes.
Why I'm sharing the build: I'm running PostHog on this from day one because I've seen too many side projects die from assumption, not failure. The most interesting thing PostHog has shown me so far: the people who use the free tier first ("check now" — manual, on demand, always free) convert to paid at a higher rate than anyone who lands on the pricing page directly. That single insight changed how I talk about the product. I stopped leading with pricing and started leading with "it's free to try right now." The data also told me where I'm losing people: the 90 seconds between the first WhatsApp reply and the payment link. That's not a pricing problem. That's a trust problem. And I'm fixing it.
Early days. Still iterating on the bot conversation flow based on PostHog drop-off data. The immigrant audience is finding it through Facebook groups faster than Reddit — Reddit's subreddit rules around paid services have been the biggest distribution challenge so far. Product is live at caselert.com if you want to try it.
Free forever for manual checks, $7/month or $45 lifetime for automatic alerts.