The classic house progressions are based on a fixed shape (one chord shape transposed up and down the keyboard - like chord memory on an Alpha Juno or a slightly different effect that you get from sampling one chord and transposing up down - you get fast/slow artefacts) - it’s simply a case of you choosing the initial fixed shape, usually a minor or major chord depending on the mood your going for - also more complex chords like sevenths, ninths, 11ths get you ‘deeper’, jazzier, more soulful sounding etc. the creativity is in you deciding on the progression with this simple fixed shape approach.
The fixed shape idea is what you probably already did on say a Monomachine - when you use a synth engine that supports chords - you set the four notes intervals (say +3, +7, +10) that’s your fixed chord shape that you simply transpose by locking the root note in the sequencer - you can of course change the shape if you want by locking the intervals to something else - but for instant house gratification you don’t need to, as the fixed shape is the archetypal sound.
Same approach applies to techno and dub stabs etc where there may be more or fewer.notes in the fixed chord shape, and where sound design (e.g. Not just a piano or organ sound) signals the genre - so the exact same progression in house would be shaped, darkened, lifted etc for other genres.
The I, IV, V stuff is actually pretty useful and quite simple if you even understand it at a basic level - ‘I’ represents the root chord, say C minor - it also represents ‘home’ - so when you build a progression, the idea is that you occasionally ‘resolve’ to come home from a journey via IV and V or VII or whatever - these are just other chords in the progression - Aminor, E7 etc - when you come ‘home’ to “I” you provide a sense of completeness or musical resolution - it sounds good, right and is very easy to hear - you might choose to return home every 2 or 4 bars - you might choose not to return home sometimes, leaving tension - the listener wants more - you might choose never to return home, for a darker or unsettling vibe.
You should check Attack Magazine where you’ll get lots of this explained with diagrams and with example “typical progressions” from classic dance tunes.
http://www.attackmagazine.com/technique/passing-notes/