Quakpit is a macOS menu bar app that connects to your calendar and sends an animal-piloted plane flying across your screen before your meetings start.
A duck, a dinosaur, a pigeon, a capybara, or a dog, your choice, cruises across your display towing a banner with your meeting name and how long you have left. Hard to ignore. Impossible to hate.
Free to download & open source. Connect your calendar, pick your animal, never miss a meeting.
Hey PH! Quakpit launches tomorrow and I wanted to share the story behind it.
A few days ago I challenged myself to build my first macOS app. I wanted to see if I could actually ship something, not just design it.
The idea: instead of a boring notification popup, a tiny plane flown by a duck crosses your entire screen with a banner saying "Your meeting is in 5 minutes." Impossible to miss. Impossible to hate.
I posted one tweet about it with zero expectations. It went viral overnight.
