Launching today
QuakPit
Meeting reminders that actually make you smile.
258 followers
Meeting reminders that actually make you smile.
258 followers
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 Product Hunt! 👋
Quakpit started as a side experiment, I wanted to build my first macOS app and see if I could actually ship something.
So I built a tiny app that sends a duck-piloted plane flying across your screen when a meeting is about to start, with a banner showing how many minutes you have left. I posted one tweet about it with zero expectations.
It blew up.
Hundreds of people asked for the same thing: more animals, custom banners, sounds, calendar integrations. Turns out nobody actually likes boring notification popups.
So I built it properly. Here's what Quakpit does today:
🦆 Connects to your calendar and triggers a flying animation before your meetings
✈️ A plane crosses your screen with a banner showing your meeting name + time left
🦕 Choose your pilot — duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog
🆓 Completely free and open source
⭐ One-time $4.99 premium for custom banners, sounds, animals and more
It's built with love. And the open source part is real, the full free experience is on GitHub.
Would love to hear which animal you'd pick as your co-pilot 👇
@tomboutin_ The capybara is the only correct answer, nothing says "your meeting starts in 2 minutes" like the most unbothered animal alive piloting a plane at you. The "nobody likes boring notification popups" insight is real though: dread vs delight is the whole difference in whether people keep a reminder tool installed instead of muting it in a week. Open-sourcing the free tier was a smart trust move too. Upvoted, installing this.
@tomboutin_ This is ultracool Tom.
It looks cute! Will the notification be seen to others if I'd sharing the screen during the video call?
@anastasija_pm Yes if you share your session!
this is the first calendar tool i've seen in years where the feature set made me actually laugh. open source too. what made you pick the plane mechanic specifically over something like a walking animation or a popup
@ansari_adin I was in Miami and saw the ads plane, so I found it funny haha
This is such a delightful app. I'll get excited for every meeting if this is how I'm reminded of it.
I just sent this yesterday as a reference to a friend for great solutions for people who need novelty to get things done. Love this, Tom.
P.S. Also loving the banner going through the Ooble Studio website.
@mitalibhasin Thanks Mitali!
Genuinely the most charming product on PH today.
Somehow a duck towing a banner is harder to ignore than the macOS notification I dismiss reflexively a hundred times a day.
Honest question: is the capybara winning in your usage data? I need to know if my taste matches the median user.
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Saw this on Twitter the other day. Super fun.
These are the kinds of apps I want to see here more often :)
First feedback: Why not access the local apple calendar directly? So I don't have to connect to iCloud / Google?
capybara, no contest. if an unbothered little guy is calmly flying across my screen telling me i’m late, i’ll probably listen.
love the mix of useful + ridiculous here. boring meeting popups are way too easy to mentally mute.