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How to get funding for your product?


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


  👤 devttyeu Accepted Answer ✓
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.