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Ask HN: How to get funding for your product?

2•logotype•1h ago
Hi HN,

For the past four years, I’ve been trying to raise funding for my product, fixparser.dev . The goal of raising capital is to be able to focus 100% on it and scale the business—it’s currently a side project, and it’s not going to grow passively on its own.

Some context on why I thought investors might be interested:

Traction: It’s the most widely used TypeScript library for FIX Protocol messages worldwide.

Team: Started as a solo project, but early users joined as co-founders. Together we’re a small team of talented engineers with deep domain knowledge.

Credentials: We’ve all worked at top-tier firms like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Point72, Millennium, etc., and have decades of combined experience building production-grade systems.

Vision: Today it’s a library, but I see massive potential beyond that. I’m not sharing the full vision publicly at this stage, but I genuinely believe it could evolve into something much bigger.

Despite traction and a strong team, fundraising has been a struggle. I’d love to hear from anyone who’s been in a similar spot or has advice on how to break through this stage.

Side note: I’m open to selling the entire business: library, plenty of existing clients, IP, everything.

Reach me at victor@logotype.se

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devttyeu•1h ago
If you have Pro users why not leverage with debt without giving up equity for no good reason?

Maybe the value prop is not clear, the website talks a bunch about AI agent integrations, that sounds like a completely different product to a parser library, which however advanced it may be, investors will likely see as tangential bit of IP that a senior engineer can build for $10-20k in a few days.

logotype•1h ago
Thanks for the suggestion! At this stage, debt is not a feasible option for us. Our focus is on scaling the business quickly and VC funding is the preferable route to achieve that. Having the runway and support from investors will allow us to fully dedicate ourselves to growth and execute our vision effectively. Re value prop - true. While the existing clients are using FIXParser as a plain old library I was thinking where the puck is going to be, it's going to be all MCP with A2A frameworks so i pivoted and most of the focus was on building the MCP features. We have received interest from VERY prominent firms in finance thanks to our focus on MCP FIX features. I doubt that a sr engineer can put that together in a few days.

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