Quakpit: A macOS app that replaces meeting reminders with animal-piloted planes
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Tom
The kind of bagel you'd toss to the pigeons.
Summary
Quakpit is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that replaces boring meeting notification popups with a fun, animated animal-piloted plane flying across your screen before meetings start. It connects to your calendar, displays the meeting name and time remaining on a banner towed by the plane, and lets users choose from animals like a duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog. Originally a side experiment that went viral on Twitter, the app was expanded based on user demand for more animals, custom banners, sounds, and calendar integrations.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI 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.
Turns out nobody actually likes boring notification popups.
Hard to ignore. Impossible to hate.
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