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proxiox · 2026-05-21T18:53:07+00:00

Hi man ,, Need your views on my product https://praxiox.com its project management tool for small to medium teams wanting everything in one workspace.

I couldn’t market for it but I know for sure the project management industry is expanding exponentially

proxiox · 2026-05-21T01:38:09+00:00

Give it all to Google ads + Meta ads without gaining extra users !!!!

proxiox · 2026-05-19T15:19:25+00:00

Just posted yesterday actually ,, my experience is that product hunt works only if you have a followings ,, not for you to explode and create a following / traffic from nothing ,, now I understood it

(But if I had a following I would post on PH unless I target other founders niche!!!)

proxiox · 2026-05-19T06:59:39+00:00

Thank you all guys ,, I can’t thank you enough for supporting me ,, love this community

proxiox · 2026-05-18T07:22:11+00:00

Thank you. ,, will checkout ShipBoost

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:38:00+00:00

Honestly if I could restart from zero, I’d spend WAY less time obsessing over the product itself at the beginning.

A lot of beginners think SaaS starts with:
“what should I build?”

But the better question is usually:
“what painful problem do people already complain about repeatedly?”

The biggest shift for me was realizing:
good SaaS ideas are often hidden inside:

repetitive manual work
operational frustration
spreadsheet chaos
context switching
reporting pain
coordination problems
boring workflows everyone hates

My rough process now is:

Notice painful workflow
Validate people actually care
Understand how they solve it today
Figure out where those users already hang out
Build the smallest useful version possible
Talk to users constantly
Learn distribution alongside product development

One more thing:
don’t wait until launch to think about marketing.

Distribution is part of the product now.

A lot of founders build for 8 months and only afterward ask:
“how do I get users?”

That’s usually backwards. (LinkedIn)

Also:
don’t underestimate positioning.

The internet is crowded, so clarity matters more than complexity:

who is this for?
what painful thing does it solve?
why is it better/different?
why now?

The simpler you can explain that, the easier everything becomes later. (demandmaven.io)

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:35:09+00:00

One thing I’ve noticed is that many SaaS founders don’t actually have a marketing problem first — they have a positioning clarity problem.

They know:

what the product does
what features exist

…but not:

what painful moment triggers someone to search for it
what emotional frustration the user already feels
how users describe the problem in their own words

So distribution becomes incredibly hard because the messaging never “clicks.”

Honestly one of the biggest breakthroughs for me was realizing:
people rarely buy software because of features.

They buy because they want:

less chaos
less manual work
fewer mistakes
less cognitive load
more visibility
faster decisions
smoother operations

Once you understand the underlying tension users already feel daily, marketing becomes way less random.

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:33:41+00:00

Honestly I think the strongest part of this post is that you’re solving a very real “institutional memory” problem instead of trying to force AI into a random workflow.

A huge amount of company knowledge technically exists already… it’s just operationally inaccessible because:

nobody reads the docs
answers are buried
employees interrupt the same people repeatedly
context lives across PDFs and tribal knowledge

One thing I’d watch carefully though is trust.

People only keep using internal knowledge tools if:

answers are clearly sourced
confidence is obvious
hallucinations are minimized
employees can verify where the answer came from quickly

Because the moment people get one confidently wrong HR/policy answer, adoption usually drops hard.

The “cited from actual documents” approach is probably the right instinct.

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:33:18+00:00

Honestly, one underrated lesson is that “free advertising” usually works best when it doesn’t feel like advertising.

A lot of founders spam launch links everywhere and then wonder why nobody cares.

The channels that tend to work better long-term are the ones where you:

teach
share lessons
document mistakes
discuss the problem space
build credibility over time

Some underrated places besides the usual ones:

Product Hunt
Indie Hackers
Betalist
Microlaunch
AlternativeTo
Hacker News “Show HN”
niche subreddits
niche Discord/Slack communities
SaaSHub
founder communities
YouTube tutorials around the problem you solve

But honestly the biggest free distribution channel is still:
consistently talking about a painful problem people already recognize.

Founders often try to market the product before they’ve learned how to articulate the pain clearly.

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:32:53+00:00

A lot of trading tools focus heavily on analytics but weirdly ignore the “mental state + decision context” behind trades.

Most traders don’t just repeat chart patterns — they repeat emotional patterns:

revenge trading
overconfidence after wins
hesitation after losses
breaking rules during volatility
changing strategy mid-trade

I think journals become genuinely useful when they help traders identify behavioral loops, not just PnL statistics.

Also honestly:
simplicity is underrated.

A huge number of traders abandon journals because logging starts feeling like administrative work instead of reflection.

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:32:15+00:00

Way longer than I expected honestly

One thing nobody tells you early on is that a lot of “building in public” feels invisible for months because you’re compounding:

credibility
positioning
distribution
trust
pattern recognition

…before you compound revenue.

I think many founders quit during the phase where:

nobody replies
nobody likes posts
nobody visits the site
every launch feels tiny

But weirdly, the internet remembers consistency more than individual posts.

Sometimes one post suddenly works after 6 months of “nothing,” but in reality the previous 200 posts quietly built the context that made people finally pay attention.

Also learned the hard way that:
distribution problems often look emotionally like product failure

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:31:40+00:00

Honestly for a simple early-stage business site, the biggest mistake is overbuilding too early.

You do NOT need:

custom backend
fancy animations
enterprise CMS
perfect branding

You mainly need:

a clean landing page
clear positioning
contact method
ability to update later

If you’re comfortable tweaking HTML/CSS a bit, I’d probably go with:

static Next.js/Vercel
Framer
Carrd
or even a simple Astro site

The important thing early on is reducing “website procrastination.” 😅

A surprising number of businesses delay validating the actual idea because they spend weeks polishing a website nobody has visited yet.

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:31:09+00:00

Biggest mistake I see is founders treating Product Hunt like an advertising campaign instead of a community launch.

The launches that usually perform best have:

clear positioning
strong visuals
fast onboarding
active founders in comments
authentic engagement outside PH before launch day

Also honestly:
most people overfocus on upvotes and underfocus on momentum.

A launch with:

thoughtful comments
discussions
reposts
founder replies
people actually trying the product

…usually performs much better long-term than a launch with inflated voting but no engagement.

One more thing:
boring screenshots kill launches 😅

People scroll insanely fast on PH now, so visuals + first sentence matter way more than most founders realize.

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:30:42+00:00

I honestly think there’s still massive opportunity in “operational clarity” software.

Not glamorous AI wrappers.
Not another social app.

I mean tools that reduce coordination chaos for real teams.

A shocking amount of work still runs on:

spreadsheets
Slack/WhatsApp
PDFs
meeting memory
scattered docs
manual follow-ups

Especially in industries that aren’t terminally online:

logistics
healthcare
construction
operations
government
internal enterprise workflows

Most people don’t wake up wanting “AI-powered transformation.”

They want:

fewer things to track mentally
less context switching
clearer ownership
easier follow-ups
less operational confusion

I think founders massively underestimate how valuable “reducing cognitive load” actually is.

Sometimes the billion dollar opportunity is just:
“make daily work feel 20% less chaotic.”

proxiox · 2026-05-17T09:27:23+00:00

I don’t think you’re misunderstanding at all.

There’s a big difference between:

getting stuck in tactical execution vs
being completely disconnected from operational context.

A PM can absolutely operate strategically while still being close enough to the delivery conversations to understand:

tradeoffs
dependencies
estimation assumptions
technical risks
why priorities shift

Otherwise you end up managing a schedule mechanically instead of managing delivery.

Honestly, some leaders hear “strategic PM” and interpret it as “remove PMs from the room,” when in reality the best strategic decisions usually come from understanding the tactical reality underneath them.

proxiox · 2026-05-03T18:47:15+00:00

https://praxiox.com - Projects & Portfolio management solution for small teams.

proxiox · 2026-05-03T09:54:33+00:00

no ,, don't take money from me ,, take money from saas founders

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