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QuakPit

QuakPit

#4 today

Meeting reminders that actually make you smile.

Launched 2mo agoProduct Hunt Website
Votes
229
Comments
30

What this means

49%Mid-tier finish likely.
Projecting 229 votes by end of day-1.
-80%Category cooling: Meetings.
Launches down 80% week-over-week.
70%Strong buyer-intent signal in the comments.
70% of commenters sound like potential buyers — mostly consumers.
90%Comment sentiment overwhelmingly positive.
Audience strongly receptive — consumers engaged.
Users are asking for local calendar access + customizable animations.
Feature requests surfaced from the comment thread.
Recurring concerns: unnecessary for some, limited functionality.
Pain points mentioned more than once in comments.

Prediction

Top-5 finish probability
49%
today
Projected end-of-day votes
229range 172–309
Trajectory
stable
Vote pace holding steady.

About

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.

AI Summary

QuakPit is a macOS menu bar app that provides meeting reminders by displaying an animated animal-piloted plane with a banner showing the meeting name and time remaining. It is free to download, open source, and integrates with your calendar for enhanced productivity.

Vote & comment velocity

Scores

Velocity14.2
Vote pace vs avg
Momentum14.2
Sustained over 6h
Virality18.7
Spread × engagement
Engagement26.2
Comments per vote

Founders

Tom
@tomboutin_ · hunter

Topics

MacMeetingsGitHubProductivity

Comment Intelligence· 21 comments analysed

Sentiment

Positive90%
Neutral5%
Negative5%
Buyer intent
70%
of commenters sound like potential buyers
Audience
consumers
Sentiment over 50 days
Positive
Negative
Buyer intent
Overall vibe

Overall, commenters find QuakPit delightful and engaging, with strong interest in its unique approach to meeting reminders.

Top themes
  • funny reminders
  • cute design
  • user engagement
  • open source
  • novelty
Feature requests
  • local calendar access
  • customizable animations
  • more animal pilots
  • multiple notifications
  • evolution of reminders
Complaints
  • unnecessary for some
  • limited functionality
  • screen sharing visibility
  • single-use notifications
  • lack of integration

Top comments

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<p>Hey Product Hunt! 👋<br><br>Quakpit started as a side experiment, I wanted to build my first macOS app and see if I could actually ship something.<br><br>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.<br><br>It blew up.<br><br>Hundreds of people asked for the same thing: more animals, custom banners, sounds, calendar integrations. Turns out nobody actually likes boring notification popups.<br><br>So I built it properly. Here's what Quakpit does today:<br>🦆 Connects to your calendar and triggers a flying animation before your meetings<br>✈️ A plane crosses your screen with a banner showing your meeting name + time left<br>🦕 Choose your pilot — duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog<br>🆓 Completely free and open source<br>⭐ One-time $4.99 premium for custom banners, sounds, animals and more<br><br>It's built with love. And the open source part is real, the full free experience is on GitHub.<br><br>Would love to hear which animal you'd pick as your co-pilot 👇</p>

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<p>It looks cute! Will the notification be seen to others if I'd sharing the screen during the video call? </p>

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<p>Okay this is legit awesome. Going to try to download and install now! <br><br>Will provide feedback if I have any :).</p>

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<p>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</p>

Sentiment computed via openai