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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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If you are interested in following SEC filings of companies, I wrote a RSS-bridge against Edgar which takes in tickers and sends a notification every time that companny files something to the SEC.

Code: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/pull/1011

If you have a list of tickers, you can generate a OPML feed from here: https://opml.bb8.fun/ (against my rss-bridge server, no uptime guarantees)

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..…

Is the advantage of getting an allocation purely that the said investor buys the said stock at the price that is agreed upon in the price range of the filings with NASDAQ/NYSE ? Also are these investors usually the HNW individuals who typically invest Millions thru the investment banking firms that are underwriting the said IPO, so win/win for the HNW and the banking firm in the way that it can guarantee the IPO'ing…

Yes, the advantage is getting the actual IPO price, rather than buying on the open market. For example, BYND IPO'd at $25, but shares hit the open market in the mid $40s (and climbed very quickly into the $60s). That kind of performance is obviously not guaranteed, but is not exactly atypical for hot offerings.

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?

Seems a bit disingenuous for the creator to scrape public info and then charge for it. Like everyone else has said, can't see what the product is, but to pay 20$ a month for notifications and a "community" that could contain 1 person or 10,000 people seems a bit much.

I think it would be beneficial to reposition to "Help find the best IPO to buy" because saying that this data doesn't exist for free is just not true and makes me a user feel like you are running a get rich quick scheme.

Not to say that there isn't value here. I think people would love to discuss IPO's and making it easier to do research, etc. is definitely a value add. Just think the messaging needs to change.

Also, you mentioned that the 20$ (or 240$ per year) will be made back and from an investment standpoint, that's also not necessarily true. Think it's praying on the misconception people have that IPO will always be profitable so I should pay 20$ to invest right away.

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?

Seems a bit disingenuous for the creator to scrape public info and then charge for it. Like everyone else has said, can't see what the product is, but to pay 20$ a month for notifications and a "community" that could contain 1 person or 10,000 people seems a bit much. I think it would be beneficial to reposition to "Help find the best IPO to buy" because saying that this data doesn't exist for free is just not true a…

Disingenuous? There's no value in collating information from different sources?

None of the words on the home page imply the information can't be manually collated for free.

And this is a Show HN, it's reasonable to assume you would be the first person in the IPOs.fyi community. That doesn't make anything OP is doing disingenuous. All communities start with 1 person...

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

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not sure why everyone is trashing this person's service. if you have >250k in your TDA account to gamble on IPOs, think $19 for a notification service on upcoming ones is reasonable. that being said i signed up and when i click on one of the ticker names i get a heroku error, so while the idea is solid just not completely functioning.

edit: working now.

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

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not sure why everyone is trashing this person's service. if you have >250k in your TDA account to gamble on IPOs, think $19 for a notification service on upcoming ones is reasonable. that being said i signed up and when i click on one of the ticker names i get a heroku error, so while the idea is solid just not completely functioning. edit: working now.

Sorry about that, was deploying some updates. Should be working now.

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

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post #66

not sure why everyone is trashing this person's service. if you have >250k in your TDA account to gamble on IPOs, think $19 for a notification service on upcoming ones is reasonable. that being said i signed up and when i click on one of the ticker names i get a heroku error, so while the idea is solid just not completely functioning. edit: working now.

Sorry about that, was deploying some updates. Should be working now.

Yeah try to fix that from happening in future. You need it to swap not shut down when updating. I will check my Heroku too!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

there is an ETF that does this, at 2 years rather than 10. https://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPO-Investing/US-IPO-ETF . Performance ITD has been worse than SPY until very recently when a lot of tech companies (incl IPOs) have had very strong performance... which is obviously why this thread is even happening.

Interesting... although 2 years doesn't seem like a meaningful enough time frame to capture real growth, only hype.

Which is the strategy no doubt!
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