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. MIT-licensed, free.
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We were featured three times in the Product Hunt newsletter! 🎉
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.
We Got 400 Downloads on Day One. Can Meridian Top the Month?
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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.
I repeatedly watched our projects miss deadlines, cut corners in SDLC, and eventually get rebuilt
I learned that as software gets easier to build, coordination becomes the bottleneck.
At my previous work, I repeatedly watched our projects miss deadlines, cut corners in the SDLC, and eventually get rebuilt - not because engineers couldn t build them, but because teams discovered too late that reality had diverged from the plan.
I also noticed smaller teams consistently moved faster. Not necessarily because they had better engineers, but because context travelled faster: everyone knew what changed, what was blocked, what had been tried, and why.
After years building AI-native systems for enterprises and leading engineers, I ve seen the same pattern repeatedly: engineering slows down when context gets fragmented and feedback arrives late.
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?
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.
Tadata
Are you going bottoms up with this, or planning to sell into larger organizations with large performance review cycles?
Meridian
@tori_seidenstein We’re starting bottoms-up with individual developers and small engineering teams, then expanding into larger organizations as we learn what they need. Performance review cycles are a strong use case, but we want Meridian to remain developer-first rather than become a top-down monitoring tool.
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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.