Chris Payne

Chris Payne

Building systems for the future of work!
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How do you survive the "Afternoon Slump" and build a Day 2 tail? 📉🏃‍♂️

Hey Product Hunt community, We launched AspectOS today, and the "Marathon" phase has officially set in. We’re currently stuck at #42, and while the early feedback on our UI has been incredible, the midday lull is hitting hard. Hitting 'Publish' was the easy part. Now, I’m looking to the veterans who have turned a slow afternoon into a Top 20 finish, and those who kept the fire burning into the...

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Trust is built on kept promises. AspectOS makes that automatic.

As an HR professional, I’ve seen that the #1 reason employees lose faith in leadership isn't a lack of vision, it's a lack of follow-through. When a manager says "I'll look into that" and forgets, a tiny piece of culture dies. Multiply that by 100 Slack threads, and you have a retention crisis. I realized managers didn't need more "training"; they needed a better operating system. I built...

Most tools are built for HR compliance. AspectOS is built for you. AspectOS isn't a place to store notes. It's a closed-loop leadership system: Capture → Prepare → Meet → Close the Loop. Every piece feeds the next. That continuous loop is what turns scattered good intentions into consistent, defensible, high-impact leadership. Save 4–7 hours/week, because the system does the connecting, pattern-finding, and reminding that managers currently do manually (or, more often, don't do at all).
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AspectOSPurpose-built for the manager-employee relationship
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208 to 364 Hours Per Year Reclaimed?

You are already busy with doing your job while managing people, if you free up 208 to 364 hours a year. And then while getting back more time you also were able to: 1 to 1.5 weeks eliminated from review season 8x to 12x ROI on direct time savings Partial FTE replacement value Reduce turnover risk Lower legal exposure Increased team productivity Improved leadership consistency Increase your...

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Managers waste hours every week. I built something to fix it.

Managers spend 3–5 hours every week on meeting prep, follow-ups, and trying to reconstruct conversations from memory. I ran the numbers and it’s roughly a $10K–$30K/year problem depending on role. But the real issue isn’t just time. It’s what gets lost: missed follow-ups inconsistent feedback reviews based on recent memory instead of reality I’ve seen this pattern across companies for years, so...

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From Executive to Builder: Why I’m building an OS for the "Human" side of leadership

Hey Product Hunt community 👋 I’ve been a long-time lurker, watching how you all build and launch. I’m finally stepping out of the shadows because I’ve spent the last year obsessed with a specific, expensive gap in how we work. My background isn't traditional tech, it’s HR and Operations. I’ve spent my career advising executives on how organizations actually run. The realization that changed...