Passport photo places charge $17 for two prints and still get the specs wrong — visa forums are full of DS-160 uploads failing with "photo does not meet requirements". Ready Visa Photo is a bootstrapped one-person tool that fixes the actual problem: the geometry. Take a selfie, and it removes the background and sizes your head to the government's published numbers, then checks the result and tells you honestly whether it passes. The pricing is the product bet: everything up to the verdict is free, and you pay $9 exactly once, only for a photo that passed. No account, no subscription, no upsell. Seven documents supported so far (US DS-160 and passport, UK and Australian passports, Schengen, China, India OCI), each built from the official spec sheet. Built and run by one founder; every rejection report becomes a fix page and a test case.
