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.
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 👇
About QuakPit on Product Hunt
“Meeting reminders that actually make you smile.”
QuakPit launched on Product Hunt on May 26th, 2026 and earned 165 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, QuakPit competes within Mac, Productivity, Meetings and GitHub — topics that collectively have 803.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how QuakPit performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted QuakPit?
QuakPit was hunted by Tom. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of QuakPit including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Tom
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 👇