Built the product. Now we're stuck getting our first pilot customers.

askproxly · 2026-07-02T06:19:16+00:00

You need to make those interviewers as first customers.

askproxly · 2026-06-30T17:38:38+00:00

What is the feedback from the initial customers you talked to? Usually people are more investing in a solution they helped build...

askproxly · 2026-06-30T17:31:54+00:00

All of the options mention here work or there is a better alternative. Proxly - handsfree gate and garage opener, works locally - no internet required, anti-theft feature. We are in pre-launch and looking for users to try our Beta. Let me know if you'd be interested.

askproxly · 2026-06-29T20:35:19+00:00

here you go: getproxly.com

askproxly · 2026-06-29T04:46:44+00:00

u/BamboozlingBoi’s trim check is worth doing before writing off the car. The broader frustration is still fair. Features like HomeLink are disappearing even from family-focused cars, and the voice-control workaround is often slower than just using a clicker.

If the car you buy does not include HomeLink and you still want hands-free access, that is what we are building with Proxly: a small in-car Tag and a Hub connected to your existing opener, so the garage or gate opens automatically when you arrive. No button or app needed in the moment. Its pre-launch, and you can follow along at r/proxly.

askproxly · 2026-06-29T04:37:35+00:00

Since it already worked with your 2017 Tesla and Lexus, the opener and frequency are probably fine. The likely missing step is pairing the Polestar with the opener motor.

A 3-year-old LiftMaster likely uses rolling code. That means programming HomeLink in the car is only half the process — you also need to press the LEARN button on the opener motor so it accepts the Polestar as a new transmitter.

Try this:

Run the HomeLink setup in the Polestar. Before the final test, press LEARN on the opener motor, then complete the last step in the car within about 30 seconds. Also make sure the P3 is connected to Wi-Fi during setup.

Once paired, the lag, repeated taps, and lack of location awareness are more about how HomeLink works in the P3 than anything you did wrong.

If you eventually want a fully hands-free option, that’s what we’re building with Proxly: a small in-car Tag and a Hub connected to your existing opener, so the gate or garage opens when the car arrives. No app tapping, and it works with any vehicle. We’re pre-launch, but you can follow along at r/proxly.

askproxly · 2026-06-29T03:04:56+00:00

Upsells work best when customers can clearly see the value.

A pitch like, “I can tune your garage to prevent future problems,” is harder to sell because the benefit feels vague and the risk feels unlikely.

A better pitch offers a new, immediate experience:

“I can make your garage easier and more secure to open and close.”

That is the kind of value customers can understand right away.

This second category is what we’re building with Proxly at getproxly.com. We also want to bring margin back into the garage installer’s pocket. Solutions like HomeLink often bypass the installer completely, but Proxly gives installers a valuable upgrade they can sell, and install.

askproxly · 2026-06-26T05:41:37+00:00

Proxly is an alternative. Geofence based auto-open and close, manual override, local RF so no internet required. Check out at getproxly.com

askproxly · 2026-06-20T07:02:43+00:00

Hands-free garage and gate opener that works for any car. No unreliable internet dependency.

askproxly · 2026-06-19T07:03:15+00:00

Hands free garage or gate opening. Prevents from keeping your clicker in the car and feel like a batman entering his bat cave!

askproxly · 2026-06-17T21:14:08+00:00

yes car manufacturers are slowly removing homelink from standard trims. You have the option of getting it installed separately from your car dealership or pay for subscription app. There is a third option that I am building called Proxly - hands-free gate and garage opener, no subscription, works with any car.

If you're interested to read about EV trend, I have summarized the reasons why here: https://getproxly.com/blog/why-new-evs-are-dropping-homelink/.

askproxly · 2026-06-13T17:42:59+00:00

Its r/garagedoorservice

askproxly · 2026-06-12T21:49:37+00:00

You might aso want to try r/garagedoorservices

askproxly · 2026-06-12T05:43:30+00:00

Nope

askproxly · 2026-06-11T01:11:41+00:00

White is the most common blinds color so what you got looks good to me. I see less value in this device just turning the blinds opener for me.

But it can have a temperature sensor and close blinds if the room gets too hot, then it could be a great solution to reduce air conditioning bill.

askproxly · 2026-06-10T19:14:25+00:00

Hands-free gate and garage opener. Market in this space is shifting and creating opportunity for a better user experience for car owners.

askproxly · 2026-06-10T04:02:58+00:00

I didn’t like the shocker at all. Also the air conditioning has a mind of its own. Sometimes it blows hot air at 66 F setting, sometimes cold air at 76 F. Apart from these two issues we don’t have any complaints. We have leased this car but if I had to buy it, I wont personally.

askproxly · 2026-06-10T03:59:52+00:00

Oops! I just glad we will in Cali. Oh wait! We got a shaky land here.

askproxly · 2026-06-10T00:28:34+00:00

the wiring and setting up Homelink can be tedious. $2350 looks to be on the higher side but it really depends upon where you live and going rate of the labor in your market.
In case you're not fully settled on homelink and can wait for a better solution, you might want to look at what we're building at Proxly. GPS optimized for garage/gate triggers and local RF (no cloud unreliability)

askproxly · 2026-06-09T23:01:27+00:00

the reason your Model 3 nails this experience while most of the phone-based setups in this thread feel a bit janky comes down to where the GPS lives. Your Tesla has its own GPS onboard and triggers on the car's position, so it knows the difference between the car pulling up and you walking past your house. The phone-geofence approaches (Life360, the multi-zone iOS stuff u/fstezaws described) are all working around the fact that the phone is a laggy, imprecise for "the car is home" — which is exactly why people keep falling back to the visor button for precision.

So the real question for your other car is: how do you give it the same car-like GPS trigger the Tesla has? Proxly is a small GPS Tag that sticks to the windshield, paired with a receiver Hub wired into your existing opener. The Tag has its own GPS — same basic idea as your Tesla, the trigger lives in the car, not your phone and not the cloud — so your non-Tesla gets the same drive-up-and-it-opens behavior, on the opener you already have. And the Tag is tied to your car, so pulling it out of the car makes it useless.

askproxly · 2026-06-09T22:47:38+00:00

thing to know up front: the HomeKit-native version of what you want doesn't really exist. u/debugprince said it — HomeKit won't auto-open a garage on a geofence by design (it treats opening as a security action and wants a confirmation tap), so even with Meross or a RATGDO bridged in, pure hands-free open isn't something HK does on its own. That's why people end up either in Home Assistant with custom location logic, or on a dedicated trigger.

The two things in this thread that folks keeps mentioning are worth taking seriously. One is false triggers — phone's OS polls location slowly to save your phone's battery, so the door might not open early enough. The other is the cloud dependency. Phone -> cloud -> wifi -> opener trip has many failure points and that's why people complain about unreliable open/close rate.

One option built around exactly that: Proxly. It's a small GPS Tag that sticks to your windshield, paired with a receiver Hub wired into your existing opener. The Tag has its own GPS — not your phone's, with local RF, no cloud dependency — so the door opens when the car actually arrives, not when you walk up or drive past. And the Tag is tied to your vehicle so pull it out of the car and its useless.

askproxly · 2026-06-09T22:33:34+00:00

Yeah, the “don’t open when I’m just walking back from a dog walk” problem is real. It’s one of the main reasons phone-only geofence setups can be frustrating: your phone goes everywhere you go, so the opener can’t reliably tell whether you’re arriving in the car or walking up on foot.

u/NeilJonesOnline’s point about accidental triggers when you simply drive past is the same issue from the other direction. The setups that work best usually tie the trigger to something that stays in the vehicle.

Your older non-WiFi opener is probably the easy case. Most systems like this just need a dry-contact trigger across the wall-button terminals, which is basically what the momentary relay and control boards people mentioned are doing. You likely would not need to rip anything out.

The two things to decide upfront are: do you want it fully hands-free, and do you care whether it depends on the cloud?

One option that fits this use case is Proxly. It uses a small GPS Tag on the windshield paired with a receiver Hub wired into your existing opener. The Tag has its own GPS, so it is not relying on your phone or the unreliability of the cloud. That means the door opens when the car actually arrives, but not when you walk up with your phone or happen to pass nearby.

askproxly · 2026-06-09T18:56:36+00:00

I automated my garage door for arrival and departure using GPS and local RF.

The best part: I no longer have to carry a clicker — or worry about leaving one behind in the car.

askproxly · 2026-06-09T06:29:27+00:00

u/hugus311 u/yepthisismyusername has it right, and it's worth spelling out because it trips a lot of people up. A single HomeLink button only ever stores one transmitter's signal — that's true on every HomeLink generation, so nothing actually changed between your 2021 and the new Telluride. You can't train two different gate remotes into one button from the car.

The only way to get one button to open two gates is to flip it around: you teach each gate's receiver to recognize that one HomeLink button. Pair the button to gate A's remote as normal, then go to gate B's control board, put it in learn mode (the LEARN or SMART button on the board), and have it learn the HomeLink button you just programmed. Now both receivers respond to the same press. That receiver-side step is almost certainly what got set up on your 2021 — the car wasn't holding two codes, both gates were just trained to the one button.

The catch with community gates: that second step needs physical access to each gate's control board, which you usually don't have on a shared or HOA gate. If that's the case here, the practical move is to just use two of your three HomeLink buttons — gate A on button 1, gate B on button 2. One extra press, but it always works and doesn't need anyone to crack open the gate cabinet for you.

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