We were featured three times in the Product Hunt newsletter, including once before our launch day had even ended.

Meridian finished as the #1 Product of the Day, and we are now aiming for the top of the August monthly leaderboard.

Meridian is an open-source, MIT-licensed, local-first AI work journal built to ensure meaningful work does not go unnoticed. It runs on your device, captures real work activity, organizes it into a clear timeline, connects it with GitHub and Jira, and drafts worklogs and project updates for review and approval.

We want to make work more visible without turning productivity software into surveillance. Meridian keeps the underlying context on the user s device, gives them control over what gets shared, and remains open source so anyone can inspect how it works.

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Meridian finished as the #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt and crossed 400 downloads on its first day.

We built Meridian because meaningful work often disappears between debugging sessions, unexpected fixes, and updates written from memory. It is an open-source, MIT-licensed, local-first AI work journal that runs on your device, organizes your activity into a clear timeline, and drafts worklogs and project updates for you to review and approve.

Now we want to top the August monthly leaderboard, and we need your support. Please upvote Meridian on Product Hunt, download it, and star the GitHub repository.

If you want me to share Meridian s daily download numbers, comment below and I will post them.

We spent three months building an open-source, local-first AI work journal that captures daily activity and turns it into clear timelines, worklogs, and updates. Yesterday, the Product Hunt community helped it reach the top position.

Thank you to everyone who supported the launch, shared their experience, left a comment, or recommended Meridian to someone else. The launch is over, but the work continues. We are reviewing what people shared and improving the onboarding, activity timeline, and drafted updates.

If you have tried Meridian, we would value hearing honestly what worked well and what still feels unclear.
GitHub: https://github.com/Meridiona/mer...

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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

GitHub: https://github.com/Meridiona/mer...

Hot take: most developer time trackers are basically surveillance software with a productivity logo slapped on top.

Random screenshots. Keyboard activity. Idle timers. Productivity scores.

And somehow we're supposed to believe that's helping developers do better work?

For too long, great work has disappeared into forgotten details, rushed standups, and updates written from memory.

We built Meridian because the debugging, unexpected fixes, and quiet progress that move projects forward deserve to be seen. It runs on your device, turns daily activity into a clear timeline, and drafts worklogs and updates for tools like Jira, ready for you to approve.

Meridian is open source, private by design, and free for individual developers. Today, it is finally live on Product Hunt.

We d be incredibly grateful if you tried it and shared your honest feedback, especially on the onboarding, activity timeline, and drafted updates.

The version of this story that gets told on launch day is the highlight reel. Here's the actual accounting.

What we gave up: two senior salaries in Bengaluru, one of which came with a team of 25 and a title that took two years to earn.

What we have built since: 500 users, 220 GitHub stars, one #1 Product of the Day, zero revenue.

That last number is the one that matters and it's the one nobody puts in the launch post. We are three months in with a product people install and no evidence yet that anyone will pay for it. That's not a failure, it's just the honest position, and pretending otherwise would make the next part of this useless.

Fifteen people. Fifteen minutes. Roughly ninety seconds of information.

The format's failure is structural, not cultural. You're asked what you did yesterday at the exact moment you're least able to answer before coffee, from memory, in front of an audience. So everyone reports the ticket they had open, because that's the retrievable answer. The actual texture of the day, the part where you'd learn something about how the sprint is really going, is gone.

The thing that's worked better for us: declaring intent in the morning instead of reporting history. "Here's what I'm picking up today" takes ten seconds, is answerable without memory, and produces something you can compare against reality at 6pm. Plan versus done, written down, no meeting.

Where it falls apart is that plan-versus-done is only useful if nobody's judged on the gap, the moment it becomes a scorecard, everyone starts declaring safe plans.

For me, it is the discovery. I regularly find new products, see how founders present their ideas, and learn from the conversations around each launch.

Launching Meridian made the platform even more meaningful to me. Meridian finished as the #1 Product of the Day, and the support from the community made all the work behind it worthwhile.

Meridian was created to help developers capture their work automatically and make sure their contributions do not go unnoticed. It is open source, so anyone can explore the project, contribute, or follow its progress.

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