Meridian(PH#1) A better way to recognize developer contributions
Hi HN! We built Meridian because we kept seeing the same thing: developers get estimates for planned work, and then spend a huge chunk of their time doing everything that wasn't planned. Debugging something weird, helping a teammate, reviewing PRs, jumping on an incident, fixing a flaky test, answering questions, etc. All useful work, but a lot of it never makes it back into the estimate. So when the sprint slips, it can look like the estimate was wrong, when really, a bunch of other work happened in between. Meridian is our attempt to make that work visible and better account for it. We’re…
Meridian(PH#1) A better way to recognize developer contributions launched on August 27, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,809 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Stop letting your work go unnoticed. Meridian keeps an automatic work journal of what you worked on and what you finished, summarised daily, and automatically drafts your project tickets for you. - Meridiona/meridian
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! We built Meridian because we kept seeing the same thing: developers get estimates for planned work, and then spend a huge chunk of their time doing everything that wasn't planned. Debugging something weird, helping a teammate, reviewing PRs, jumping on an incident, fixing a flaky test, answering questions…
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