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.
1752vc Pitch Deck Analyzer
Three months ago you quit your job to build this. It's MIT-licensed and free for individual developers, a lot to give away on day one. Congrats on shipping it.
Meridian
@lucasjpols Thank you! Leaving my job to build Meridian was a big leap, so the support means a lot. Making it MIT-licensed and free for individual developers felt like the right way to ensure developers can trust it, audit it, and benefit from it without barriers.
1752vc Pitch Deck Analyzer
You quit your job three months ago to build this, and it's MIT-licensed and free for individual developers. That's a lot to give away on day one. Congrats.
Meridian
@ben_kahan Thank you! Leaving my job to build Meridian was a big leap, and making it MIT-licensed and free for individual developers felt essential to earning developers’ trust and making it accessible from day one.
Loved the onboarding @akarsh_hegde
Meridian
@akarsh_hegde @hiten_sethiya Glad you enjoyed the onboarding. Thank you for trying Meridian!
Netlify
Such a smart and needed tool for career growth. Congrats on bringing this to life!
Meridian
@thisiskp_ Thank you for the support! As one of Meridian’s makers, it means a lot to hear this from someone who helps founders bring products to life. We’d value your perspective on what could make Meridian even more useful for career growth.
Cluing
Congrats on the launch, guys! 🎊
Meridian
@gordana_laskovic Thank you for celebrating with us! 🎊
Humalike
Congrats on the launch!
Meridian
@mcarmonas Thank you! Really appreciate the support.
hi @Meridian @adityaharish2002
Quick question on repo access -- Meridiona/meridian is MIT-licensed and public, but Meridiona/screenpipe-fork is private, and it's not optional: it's the in-process capture stack (screen + a11y + OCR), the sole data source since the Bucket-2 cutover.
Without read access to it, nobody can actually build the tray app from source -- even the daemon-only build fails, since Cargo resolves the whole workspace lockfile at once.
Is that intentional (proprietary capture code, PII-sensitive, still pre-release, etc.), or just an access oversight? If it's meant to stay private, might be worth a line in CLAUDE.md or the README saying so, since right now "clone and build" quietly dead-ends there with no explanation.
If it's an oversight, can I get added? I'm on GitHub as arush361
Meridian
@sharma_arush
This is intentional, and we plan to add it to the monorepo. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Its intentional and we plan to add itt o he mono repo but thats for brinding it to our notice