Launching today
Meridian is an open-source AI work journal that runs entirely on your device. It writes your work up in plain English as the day goes, so by the end of the day you have a summary of everything you did. Meridian automatically drafts your updates for your project management tools like Jira, ready to post once you approve them. Do the work. Let the remembering take care of itself. No cloud, no account. MIT-licensed, free.
Meridian
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Three months ago, I quit my job to build Meridian. My co-founder and I kept running into the same problem many developers face: we would ask claude to write an update, then spend ten minutes reconstructing the context it had missed. It knew what we told it, but not the four unexpected problems we had solved along the way.
That unplanned work is real, and bigger than most people think. I posted about it on Reddit: "We software developers massively underestimate how much unplanned work we do every single sprint" and it went viral, which told us we weren't the only ones feeling this.
Meridian does the remembering for us. It runs quietly in the background, groups the day into a timeline, matches the work to open Jira and GitHub tickets, and drafts the update - so by the end of the day there's a work log, a standup note, and a daily summary ready to paste, not write.
A few things I care about, as a developer myself:
- We care deeply about privacy - nothing leaves your device until you hit approve.
- Open source - you can audit exactly what it's doing.
- Free for individual developers. No seat, no credit card.
- Bring your own AI - runs on the Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex CLI you already have, or Groq for free if you don't.
Try it
Free download — Meridian for macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+) or Meridian for Windows (Win 10/11, 64-bit). Everything else is at meridiona.com, and if you like what we're building, star us on GitHub.
@akarsh_hegde @adityaharish2002 Many congratualtions on the launch! :)
How I met the makers?
I first came across the founders of Meridian through their email, and after seeing what they were building, we jumped on a call to dig deeper.
What is Meridian?
Meridian is tackling a problem I think a lot of developers and increasingly, AI-assisted developers will relate to: where did my workday actually go?
Instead of manually tracking time or using invasive employee-monitoring tools that take random screenshots, Meridian automatically creates visibility into how you actually spend your time and what you worked on.
What stood out to me most was their philosophy: this isn't a monitoring tool. It's designed first for developers themselves to help them understand their work patterns, make better decisions, and ultimately become more productive.
I've personally experienced how painful traditional time tracking can be, and I've also seen the other extreme... tools that feel more like surveillance than productivity software. Meridian sits in a much more interesting middle ground.
I also really liked the founders' approach. They're developers who experienced this problem themselves, quit their jobs, and spent the last few months building a solution before taking it public. They're currently focused on beta feedback rather than rushing to monetize.
Why I endorse it?
After our conversation, I came away convinced there was something genuinely novel here. The combination of automatic activity logging, developer-focused visibility, and eventually personalized productivity insights makes Meridian particularly interesting in the age of coding agents.
That's why I'm happy to endorse and hunt Meridian on Product Hunt.
If you're a developer who wants to understand your workday better without being micromanaged, I think @Meridian is worth checking out. :)
Meridian
@rohanrecommends Thank you for taking the time to understand Meridian, speak with us, and share such a thoughtful endorsement. Having you hunt our launch and stand behind the product means a great deal to Akarsh and me.
You understood why we built Meridian from the beginning: developers deserve visibility into the work they do without sacrificing their privacy or feeling monitored. Your experience with Product Hunt and your guidance throughout this process have been incredibly valuable, especially as we bring something we have spent months building into the public for the first time.
We’re grateful not only for your support today, but also for the confidence you placed in us after our conversation. We still have a lot to learn and improve, and we’re excited to use the feedback from this launch to make Meridian genuinely useful for developers and engineering teams.
Thank you again for hunting Meridian and helping us share it with the Product Hunt community. We truly appreciate everything you have done to support this launch!
Meridian
@rohanrecommends Thank you for hunting our product and for the thoughtful endorsement! Your early feedback helped us sharpen how we explain Meridian and who we are building it for. Really appreciate your support.
Meridian
@akarsh_hegde @gor_geghamyan Thank you for the support! We’d love to hear your feedback after you try Meridian.
Fin
Meridian seems to absolutely need an account and can't be used without it. What is the account for, and if it is to get product updates, am curious why it's gating usage. The app also requires quite a bit of access such as audio and screen recording, as well as accessibility. Am not sure the claim "privacy first" matches these required permissions especially with llm egress into the mix?
Also curious why the app isn't on the app store where there is a third party attestation you're not doing anything weird?
I understand the open source claim, but as long as the user doesn't compile the app themselves there is less visibility into what it does, and 2 of your claims from the launch description sadly don't seem to match the actual app :( .
(Disclosure: I'm building in an adjacent space and have built developer tools at scale, which is why I care about how privacy claims get made in these categories)
Meridian
@ingridepure Thanks for raising this. The account is only used to understand how many people use Meridian and whether they continue using it. It is not for product updates.
Meridian requests screen recording and accessibility permissions to observe on-device activity and build your work timeline. It does not record audio, and the captured activity remains private on your device. Nothing is stored on our servers.
The code is open source and can be reviewed or debugged directly on GitHub. We agree that the current account requirement conflicts with our “no account” claim, and we will correct that claim while we work on removing the requirement.
Meridian
@ingridepure Regarding the App Store, we have already submitted Meridian for review. We are also verified through the Apple Developer Program, which is why the current app does not appear as untrusted when installed.
GrowMeOrganic
Does it not auto-log the tasks based on what it sees on the browser? I tried it but it didn't log what I am doing inside Chrome.
Meridian
@iamanantgupta Thanks for trying Meridian! It should capture activity inside Chrome, so this sounds like a bug. Could you share your setup and what activity was missing? We’ll investigate.
Outcome
Meridian
@dzaitzow Developers are the primary users today, especially those working across tools like Jira and GitHub. It can also help no-code builders using Claude or other tools, since Meridian captures their activity and turns it into a clear timeline and worklog.
This is a fascinating product, congratulations! If a lot of my work happens on a remote VM that I SSH into from a local computer, does this support that, or plans to support that?
Meridian
@clintdeygoo Thanks! Meridian already captures terminal activity through accessibility, including work done over SSH on a remote VM. It works well with this setup. Try it out and give us your feedback!
Documentation.AI
Congrats. Looks very interesting. 😊 What's on your roadmap?
Meridian
@roopreddy Thanks! Our roadmap includes integrations with Linear, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Trello, along with more personalized productivity insights. We’re also improving the activity timeline, task matching, and drafted updates based on feedback from this launch. As one of Meridian’s makers, the standard we’re building toward is a private, transparent work journal that stays useful to developers without becoming a monitoring tool. Which part would be most valuable to you?
Meridian
@roopreddy We’re looking for B2B SMB companies where we can implement Meridian and make a measurable difference for engineering teams. If that matches your company, I’d be glad to discuss a pilot.
Can non-devs use this product? I would love to!
Meridian
@himani_sah1 Yes, it’s for anyone who works on a computer! We’ve tested Meridian with non-developers, and it works very well for them too.
BackEngine MCP
@himani_sah1 @adityaharish2002 how does this work for non-devs? for example, if my workflow is a combination of email, zoom calls, slack, claude/chatgpt, manus -- does it just take screen shots periodically and from their deduce what tasks i have worked on or is there something else?