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...
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
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?
Swytchcode
This is really cool. How does it map the work with existing tickets.. lets say in Jira?
Meridian
@chilarai Meridian analyzes your on-device activity, then matches that context against open Jira tickets. It suggests the most relevant ticket and drafts an update for you to review and approve before posting.
Meridian
@adamroot Yes, Meridian can generate a weekly bullet-point summary of completed work, so you don’t have to spend an hour compiling it manually.
Meridian
@adamroot Yes, Meridian can serve as an automatic second brain for work. It continuously captures on-device activity, organizes it into a timeline, and preserves the context Claude would otherwise miss, including investigations, decisions, unexpected fixes, and unplanned work. Unlike Obsidian, it does not require you to manually write and organize every note.
It does not currently pull context from Granola transcripts.
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Is it voice-led right?
Meridian
@busmark_w_nika Not currently. We don’t record voice. We may explore that for meetings in the future, but for now, Meridian gets enough context from on-device activity.
RunEvr
@akarsh_hegde This is a really interesting approach! I especially like the idea of taking the “remembering and reporting” part out of the workflow so people can focus on the actual work. And running entirely on-device with no account is a big plus for privacy. Great concept - wishing you a successful launch!
Meridian
@adana Thank you for the support! Really appreciate it. Privacy shaped every decision we made, which is why Meridian works on-device and keeps the user in control
Huge congrats to you and the team launch, Akarsh! I really like the problem you’re tackling, the invisible, unplanned work that happens between tickets and commits is often where the real story of a project lives.
The privacy-first and open-source approach makes the product even more compelling, especially for something that’s essentially building a memory layer around how people work.
Wishing you and the team all the best.
Meridian
@davemadeit Thank you for the thoughtful support! We built Meridian to make that invisible work visible without compromising privacy or control. Your encouragement means a lot to the team.
Meridian
@davemadeit Thank you for the thoughtful support! It means a lot to our team.