Closed-source software asks us to trust what we cannot inspect. We want to build differently.
Three months ago, my co-founder and I quit our jobs to build Meridian full-time. It is an open-source, local-first AI work journal that runs on your device, captures your development activity, and drafts clear worklogs and updates for tools like Jira. Nothing leaves your device until you approve it.
Meridian is MIT-licensed and free for individual developers. Your thoughts and support would be really helpful
there's no changelog for PopTask anywhere, the app store "what's new" box is read by roughly nobody, so from now on every update lands in this thread, small ones as replies, bigger ones as their own post
For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.
AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.
So I m curious:
Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?
