Akarsh Hegde

Akarsh Hegde

Founder @ meridiona.com
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Building Meridian, an open-source, local-first tool that turns developer activity into useful project updates without timers or manual busywork. I spend most of my time working on developer productivity, AI-assisted workflows, and the messy reality of modern engineering work: PRs, bugs, context switching, release pipelines, and keeping tools like Jira, GitHub Issues, and Linear in sync. Meridian runs on your machine, understands what you are working on, and helps turn that context into worklogs, summaries, and ticket updates you can review before anything gets posted. Currently focused on building better ways for software teams to see what actually happened during the day, not just what was planned.

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2h ago

Do you think you’re an exception, or is every developer’s day this chaotic?

I keep telling myself, Tomorrow I ll finally get uninterrupted focus time.

Tomorrow arrives

and it s another day of PRs, bugs, meetings, helping teammates, and context switching.

Is this just me, or is this the default experience for most software engineers?

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4h ago

I think we software developers massively underestimate how much unplanned work we do every sprint

Almost everyday starts with a rough idea of what we're going to get done.
Then reality happens.

  • Standup changes priorities.

  • Someone Slacks you for help.

  • A production issue pops up.

  • A PR review takes longer than expected.

  • You discover the ticket is twice as complicated as you thought.

By the end of the day, you realize you spent hours on things you never planned to do.
I'm starting to think developer productivity isn't about executing the perfect plan.
It's about understanding why the plan changed.

  • Was it legitimate interruptions?

  • Poor estimation?

  • Context switching?

  • Helping teammates?

  • Urgent work?

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