Meridian(PH#1) A better way to recognize developer contributions
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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 building it in the open and open sourcing it because we’d much rather have developers tell us where we're getting this wrong than build another productivity dashboard in a vacuum.We launched last week and ended up #1 on Product Hunt, which was pretty wild. Now we're looking for feedback from the core dev community.Curious how you deal with unplanned work today, and whether this is actually a problem worth solving today.
HN · launched Aug 27, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: engineering and workflow analytics platforms · 39 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a developer metrics web dashboard that integrates with standard GitHub/GitLab and Slack/Linear APIs to aggregate PR reviews, comments, and ad-hoc task contributions.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #44 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
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