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CafeCheckIn lives in your macOS menu bar and removes the daily friction of working from cafes. One-click WiFi copy, automatic café detection, today's weather, and a personal journal where you rate each spot (quiet, outlets, WiFi, drinks). Next time, your history tells you exactly which café is worth going back to. Native SwiftUI, lightweight, and privacy-first your notes stay on your device.
I built CafeCheckIn because I do a lot of my work from cafés - and every time I sat down somewhere new, the same little rituals repeated: squint at the weather, hunt for the WiFi password on a wall sticker, forget which café had good outlets last week.
So I made a tiny macOS menu bar app that does all of it in one glance: it detects the café you're at, shows the weather, remembers WiFi passwords securely (in the Keychain - never plaintext), and lets you log a quick check-in with ratings for WiFi, outlets, noise, and calls. Over time it becomes your personal map of the best spots to work from.
What started as "just show me the WiFi" slowly grew into something more thoughtful - offline-tolerant states for when the network drops, a WiFi QR code so friends can join in one scan, and a shareable check-in card. It's fully native SwiftUI, built on Swift 6 strict concurrency.
Would love to hear where you all get your best work done ☕ - and any feedback is very welcome!
Caught my attention because it pulls in weather and Wi-Fi without any setup. The history view of past cafés is genuinely useful, though I wish the menu bar icon showed a quick weather peek.
How does it actually detect the café automatically, just based on the WiFi network name or is there some location check too?
menu bar app just sits there quietly and tells me exactly which cafe i'm in and what the wifi situation is. weirdly useful, especially the weather bit.
The auto-detecting the cafe name from wifi is genuinely clever, the kind of tiny smart touch that makes the whole thing feel thoughtful instead of just another menu bar toy.
How does it actually detect which café I'm at, does it use the WiFi network name or GPS, and what happens if two nearby cafes share the same SSID?
One thing I'd love to see is the ability to log a quick note or mood alongside each café visit, so I can remember which spots felt right for deep focus versus casual catch-ups.
This is such a nice little Mac utility :) I work from cafes sometimes too, and the tiny details really do matter: WiFi quality, outlets, noise, whether calls feel awkward, and which place was actually good enough to return to.
I like that it stays focused instead of becoming another productivity app. the Keychain storage, native SwiftUI build, and personal map of reliable work spots make it feel thoughtful. Curious if you plan to add a simple "best cafe nearby for calls / deep work" recommendation once enough check-ins are saved.
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CafeCheckIn, Your café sorted the moment was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #66 on the daily leaderboard. CafeCheckIn lives in your macOS menu bar and removes the daily friction of working from cafes. One-click WiFi copy, automatic café detection, today's weather, and a personal journal where you rate each spot (quiet, outlets, WiFi, drinks). Next time, your history tells you exactly which café is worth going back to. Native SwiftUI, lightweight, and privacy-first your notes stay on your device.
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Dominic Long Nhật
Hey everyone 👋
I built CafeCheckIn because I do a lot of my work from cafés - and every time I sat down somewhere new, the same little rituals repeated: squint at the weather, hunt for the WiFi password on a wall sticker, forget which café had good outlets last week.
So I made a tiny macOS menu bar app that does all of it in one glance: it detects the café you're at, shows the weather, remembers WiFi passwords securely (in the Keychain - never plaintext), and lets you log a quick check-in with ratings for WiFi, outlets, noise, and calls. Over time it becomes your personal map of the best spots to work from.
What started as "just show me the WiFi" slowly grew into something more thoughtful - offline-tolerant states for when the network drops, a WiFi QR code so friends can join in one scan, and a shareable check-in card. It's fully native SwiftUI, built on Swift 6 strict concurrency.
Would love to hear where you all get your best work done ☕ - and any feedback is very welcome!