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

IPO calendar for NYSE: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyse.com&#x2F;ipo-center&#x2F;filings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyse.com&#x2F;ipo-center&#x2F;filings</a><p>IPO calendar for NASDAQ: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;market-activity&#x2F;ipos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;market-activity&#x2F;ipos</a><p>Market Watch&#x27;s IPO calendar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;ipo-calendar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;ipo-calendar</a><p>Anyone know if CBOE publishes an IPO calendar?

My brokerage (Fidelity) does this for free. But the problem is not knowing about the IPO, it&#x27;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.<p>If you could pool together retail investors to increase the possibility of getting shares allocated, that would be something special...

A few times I saw news about a company that I liked and, upon Googling, noticed that it had gone public a few weeks prior. By this time, the stock had already shot up. So I set out to fix this problem and built IPOs.fyi.<p>It&#x27;s by no means finished but I am proud that I built my first software product and would love feedback. If you are interested, you can use promo code HN20 for 20% off the first month!

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!

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&#x27;re not helping anybody avoid missing out on an IPO because you&#x27;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.)<p>You&#x27;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 &quot;pops&quot; 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...)

I built the same product back in 1998. It worked well during a heightened time of new IPO listings. Not always the case. but I was able to sell it to a hedge fund back then 2 years later. good luck!

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 :)

Definitely agree with the mission. I believe it should be free though, so we created Today&#x27;s IPOs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;todaysipos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;todaysipos.com&#x2F;</a><p>We are trying to democratize finance!

I&#x27;d suggest putting the information directly on your site (at least the IPOs coming up in the next X days) and charge for the deeper access + email notifications. But that way people have a reason to visit your site even if they haven&#x27;t decided to pay yet.

The economics of IPO investing seem to reward the early private investors at the expense of retail investors. In the current market, I question this as an investment strategy.<p>&quot;Oh no, I missed the IPO&quot; turns into &quot;well, at least I can buy at a discount&quot; 6 months later. This isn&#x27;t <i>every</i> company, but it&#x27;s been an increasing portion as of recent years.

Nice idea! I think for people who constantly want to invest in the next big thing, this would come in handy.<p>As an aside, a good friend of mine warned me that investing at the beginning of an IPO generally is a bad bid. It&#x27;s better to wait 1-2 years until the hype settles to fairly value a company and that is so true from my own experience with $SNAP, $UBER, $LYFT and $PINS.

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.<p>Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RSS-Bridge&#x2F;rss-bridge&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RSS-Bridge&#x2F;rss-bridge&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1011</a><p>If you have a list of tickers, you can generate a OPML feed from here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opml.bb8.fun&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opml.bb8.fun&#x2F;</a> (against my rss-bridge server, no uptime guarantees)

This is not supposed to be a &quot;Show HN&quot; post, right? I remember that in the guidelines this tag is meant for something that we can see the inner workings and hack with. This is a mere product promotion post.

I&#x27;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&amp;P 500 or similar benchmarks over the past 30 years?

I recently made something similar, but for movie directors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;directoralerts.website&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;directoralerts.website&#x2F;</a>

not sure why everyone is trashing this person&#x27;s service. if you have &gt;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.<p>edit: working now.

heads up - you need to offer a free way to try your product or it will be delisted from Show HN. trust me it happened to me.

This is an awesome idea, good luck

Looks like a scam. No thanks.