I built a macOS app where a duck-piloted plane flies across your screen before your meetings 🦆

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.

Hundreds of people started asking for more, more animals, custom banners, sounds, calendar integrations. So I decided to build it properly.

Here's what Quakpit is today:

• 🗓 Connects to your calendar

• ✈️ Sends a plane flying across your screen before meetings

• 🦆 Choose your pilot: duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog

• 🆓 Fully free and open source version

• ⭐ $4.99 one-time premium for custom banners, sounds & more

My question for the PH community: what's the most creative meeting reminder you've ever seen or used? I'm convinced boring notifications are one of the most underrated problems in productivity software 👇