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Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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IPO calendar for NYSE: https://www.nyse.com/ipo-center/filings IPO calendar for NASDAQ: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos Market Watch's IPO calendar: https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/ipo-calendar Anyone know if CBOE publishes an IPO calendar?

thank you!!!

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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My brokerage (Fidelity) does this for free. But the problem is not knowing about the IPO, it's getting an allocation. As a retail investor, it would seem my position size is not big enough to get any shares. I know this varies by brokerage, so this may or may not be typical of others.

If you could pool together retail investors to increase the possibility of getting shares allocated, that would be something special...

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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This may come across as pedantic, but the terminology on the page is a bit imprecise and may suggest a lack of sophistication for somebody selling a financial information product. You're not helping anybody avoid missing out on an IPO because you're not helping anybody be part of the IPO market itself. (Generally only big investors with a relationship to the underwriters or friends of the issuer get to be participate in the IPO market, i.e. to buy shares in an IPO.)

You're offering to let people know that shares will be available in the secondary markets the day after the IPO is priced and shares are sold (often buying FROM people who bought in the IPO). The distinction here is important because in an IPO that "pops" on the first day of trading, somebody who buys shares on the secondary market in normal trading is not going to be able to buy them at the IPO price. (They may even have a hard time buying them at the opening price in secondary trading...)

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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IPO calendar for NYSE: https://www.nyse.com/ipo-center/filings IPO calendar for NASDAQ: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos Market Watch's IPO calendar: https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/ipo-calendar Anyone know if CBOE publishes an IPO calendar?

Does the product literally just scrape this data? Does it include the SPACs/direct listings/reverse mergers that seem to be increasingly popular?

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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I've been curious what the hypothetical outcome would be if you were to invest the same amount of money in every IPO for the past 30 years and sell at a fixed time 10 years later. Are IPOs underpriced, overpriced, or neither on average over the long term? How does the return compare to investing the same amounts into the S&P 500 or similar benchmarks over the past 30 years?

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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I would love to get a free preview or 7 free days or something before I decide to pay. Would like to see what the content looks like :)

Heard this feedback from a few folks and definitely agree. How do you think I should differentiate the paid vs free option?

Maybe a free version could be something that only announces that days IPOs or last week or something? That would demonstrate all the content without providing nearly as much value as it’s not enough time to participate.

But an X week trial is probably a good option as well to give people an idea without having to keep up a free and non-free version.

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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This is an interesting concept however I think it is priced too high. I also agree with others that it would be helpful to see what it looks like before signing up. Good luck!

Thank you for sharing this feedback, it's something I was wondering. My thinking for this pricing is that if you just act on one of the signals and are right, you will hopefully have a return of more than a year's worth of subscription costs YMMV

Potential alternative model - find a brokerage/trading platform with a good affiliate program (ideally with a revshare option), offer this service free with a sign-up but then give members tutorials on how to make money using the IPO data.

If it were me, I'd start on a leads model - see how many you can drive and get paid per lead, then switch to revshare when you're confident the lead quality is good.

You also then have a massive email database of users interested in financial markets and services (because it was free to sign up) - plenty of opportunity to market them there, products, weekly tips, whatever.

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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I would love to get a free preview or 7 free days or something before I decide to pay. Would like to see what the content looks like :)

Heard this feedback from a few folks and definitely agree. How do you think I should differentiate the paid vs free option?

You could randomly select one company to feature from a list of N upcoming IPOs. E.g. `${sampleCo} begins trading this week, along with N-1 others...` You could leave the N-1 other tickers blurred out, or you could literally write 'along with seven other companies. Subscribe today to receive all IPO updates'. Something to that effect.

After all, customers will pay you for convenience, not proprietary data. As other commenters noted, this data is all freely available on NYSE, et al.

Your value prop == 'aggregated list of all upcoming IPOs in your inbox'. Not 'some' IPOs. You can demonstrate that the product works well by providing one free sample.

Re: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

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My brokerage (Fidelity) does this for free. But the problem is not knowing about the IPO, it's getting an allocation. As a retail investor, it would seem my position size is not big enough to get any shares. I know this varies by brokerage, so this may or may not be typical of others. If you could pool together retail investors to increase the possibility of getting shares allocated, that would be something special..…

It's not quite the same, but the ETF's; USA - IPO, FPX; and International - IPOS, FPXI, FPXE.

They buy IPO's after they launch, and then sell them after a set duration, automatically managing inflow of new and outflow of old. Youre not able to buy specific companies, youre instead buying into the idea, trends, and behaviors of IPOs as a whole. They also dont capture the huge initial jump in price.

Go with a 60:40 IPO:FPXI to capture all the ipo momentum in the world.

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