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.
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.
Meridian launched on Product Hunt on August 17th, 2026 and earned 154 upvotes and 14 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. 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.
On the analytics side, Meridian competes within Productivity, Open Source and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Meridian performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Meridian?
Meridian was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rohan Chaubey
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.