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
The App Store shows downloads, revenue, crashes. Fine as a pulse check. Not enough if you care what people do inside the app: which paywall they hit, whether they finish a session, whether a feature even got used.
For Briskly I built a small event tracker and a private dashboard for that. It works. I m just not sure it s the smartest use of solo time, or if there s a simpler setup most people use.
Hello, fellow Vibe Coders. I am a new Vibe Coder who left the handmade shoe industry in Korea to embark on a startup journey. I d like to share a record of the past two months or so.
As I am Korean, I am using Google Translate to generate the English text for each paragraph; I ask for your understanding.
1. In the two-plus months since I started using Claude Code, I have built nine simple apps; I released three of them on iOS and five on Android. This count includes projects I abandoned midway because they became too difficult.
2. The total number of downloads is just over 200, and I ve generated one paid subscription and $15 in AdMob revenue. These are the results from June through July. I hope this post will serve as a record of my early, modest beginnings.
